Bruno Gustave traces his method to hundreds of kilometers from his native Guadeloupe. The digital analyst for a industrial financial institution is obsessed with microfinance and monetary inclusion. Kinshasa has turn out to be his adopted metropolis. He was the visitor of Eddy Mr. Golabkan, on February 13, 2025.
Kinshasa, in Central Africa, capital and largest metropolis within the Democratic Republic of Congo, can be probably the most populous on the continent. With a inhabitants estimated at greater than 17 million inhabitants in its middle, it is usually the third agglomeration of Africa behind Cairo, Egypt and Lagos, in Nigeria.
It is usually the most important French -speaking agglomeration on the earth. It has additionally exceeded Paris within the 2010s. Situated on the southern financial institution of the Congo river, it faces the capital of the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville.
It’s on this dynamic metropolis that we discover Bruno Gustave.
Nothing destined him for a life in Africa. And but, for 15 years that he has lived there, he doesn’t plan to return to France. It was nonetheless in Poitiers that he gained a grasp’s diploma in a enterprise faculty. Throughout these years, he had a 12 months of caesura and arrived in Kenya, to work in microfinance. A primary expertise which will probably be a revelation.
Since then, I’ve by no means been in a position to enter France. It was 15 years in the past. I fell in love with Africa.
Then he flies away for Senegal the place he participated within the creation of a microfinance establishment, for two years.
These first 2 experiences have been very enriching, he says. He decides to not return to France, having had a crush on the African continent.
Africa has confirmed to be me. What me was the battle in opposition to poverty. I found the microphone finance with fashions just like the Bangladais Muhammad Yunus or what is completed in Kenya. I found how know-how may assist monetary inclusion. I additionally found that I may make a profession in it.
Right this moment, he occupies the perform of chief of division. A mission that permits him to be a jack-of-all-trades. He can thus do challenge administration, merchandise having a managerial, technical dimension with builders, gross sales, advertising and marketing.
We really feel way more helpful by being in a rustic just like the Congo than within the Tour of Société Générale in Protection.
And the least we are able to say is that Bruno swims like a fish within the water in Kinshasa.
