Since its release, Gateway to Africa, the debut book by visionary entrepreneur Prateek Suri, has stormed the Amazon charts and established itself as one of the most talked-about business books of the year. Published by Penguin Enterprise, the book is on its way to becoming a must-read for founders, executives, investors, and dreamers who are serious about understanding the future of global growth.
Far from being another feel-good success story, Gateway to Africa operates as an intimate memoir of a risk-taker who stepped far outside the comfort of familiar markets, and a strategic playbook on how to build and scale in some of the world’s most complex, high-potential regions.
Suri charts his journey from his early days in Delhi to building Maser Group, Africa’s first home-grown smart-tech unicorn. Throughout the journey, he brings readers into boardrooms, warehouses, ports, and streets around the world, illustrating how administrative delays, currency fluctuations, logistical challenges, and cultural miscommunications served as the foundation for one of the youngest Indian billionaires in Africa.
“I didn’t want to write a book that just celebrates the milestones,” Suri shares. “I wanted to unpack the messy, uncertain path that sets the doubts, the failures, the recalibrations. Africa wasn’t just a business destination for me; it rewired the way I think about value, resilience, and leadership.”
The response from readers has been emphatic. Gateway to Africa has quickly climbed to #1 in multiple Amazon categories, including Economic Policy & Development, Business Development, and Management, while drawing a wave of five-star reviews. It is well regarded as one of the rare business books that speaks to both the head and the heart.
What genuinely distinguishes the book is its timing and viewpoint. As global focus shifts to Africa and the Global South as the upcoming growth engines, Gateway to Africa provides something distinctive: practical experience rather than just theory. Suri doesn’t idealize the continent; he values it, admires its efforts, its inhabitants, its possibilities. He discusses markets not as theoretical graphs, but as vibrant ecosystems influenced by trust, culture, and daily life.
The book makes a convincing argument that the future will favour not just innovators, but also those who provide value; to communities, to consumers, and to the markets they engage with. Instead of celebrating scale merely for its own purpose, Suri emphasizes relevance, active listening, and thorough localization as the genuine distinguishing factors in a competitive global market.
Gateway to Africa is rapidly evolving from a debut title into a movement-defining narrative. The book is finding a home on the shelves of entrepreneurs, policy thinkers, investors, and young professionals who see themselves in its story of risk, reinvention, and courage.
With its powerful blend of storytelling, strategic insight, and emotional honesty, Gateway to Africa is poised to solidify Prateek Suri’s reputation not only as a large-scale entrepreneur but as one of the most compelling new voices in global business storytelling.
Gateway to Africa is now available in major bookstores across India and internationally, as well as on leading online platforms including Amazon and Flipkart.
