Africa Franchise Center is a specialized investment promotion service focusing on franchising as a business model. Through Africa Franchise Center, Pedestal Africa is pushing the frontiers of this proven model for de-risking small scale entrepreneurship, accelerating job creation, and mainstreaming the informal sector in Africa. Our investment in AFC has enabled it to provide advisory support to emerging franchise businesses and to provide thought leadership through Africa Franchise Index, the first continent-wide reference publication on franchising in Africa.