At the 16th edition of the Sustainability, Enterprise, and Responsibility Awards, which recently took place in Lagos, Dangote Group, HIS Towers, and BUA Group were named the most responsible companies in Africa.
“CSR and sustainability have gone through their evolution,” stated Mary Ephraim, Executive Director of TruCSR/The SEARS CSR Awards Africa, in a statement on the theme Sustainability: Bridging the SDGs Gap through Impact Investing. From altruism to sustainability to circularity, now.
According to Mary, “Through these various seasons, prosperity has never been a norm absent in Africa. Despite all the problems we face as a continent, capitalists have remained largely happy. Entrepreneurs have continued to be productive. Our peculiar challenges have given rise to innovation as never seen before. For the first season in our human history, we face an existential threat to our ability to live on this planet.”
Speaking further, she said, “Before now, the conversations had been about how we could leave a befitting world for our children to inherit.
“But at the moment, it is how we as parents can live so that our offspring get the opportunity to survive. This is why we chose the theme.”
