Ghana Readies for $10-billion High-Tech Hub
Ghana has high hopes for an empty plot of land just outside Accra. The nearly 1.5 million square-meter plot, located about 30 minutes’ drive...
Interview: Founder of Ghana’s MEST Incubator for Tech Entrepreneurs
In 2008, Norwegian entrepreneur Jorn Lyseggen opened Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra, Ghana, to train young Africans to become globally competitive...
Five Challenges Of Doing Business in Africa
In a move to diversify their supply chain around the world, U.S. apparel and footwear companies, including manufacturers and retailers, increasingly are looking to...
Missed Opportunity At U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
The United States missed an opportunity to deepen its trade relations with Africa at this week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., a leading...
AAI Celebrates 30 Years of Honoring African Achievement
The Africa-America Institute (AAI), a U.S.-based international education and policy organization dedicated to strengthening the human capacity of Africans, will host its 30th Annual...
Harness The Opportunity, Manage The Risk
In Ernst & Young’s 2013 attractiveness survey of Africa, Diana Layfield, Africa CEO of Standard Chartered, identifies commonsense factors that help the London-based multinational...
AAI Launches Scholarship Fund For African Students
The Africa-America Institute on September 29 officially launches a Future Leaders Legacy Fund to provide African students who are bright but poor with scholarships...
The Rise of African Exports, Investment & Immigrants In China
From South African wine to made-in-Ethiopia shoes, Africa’s exports to and investment in China is on the rise, adding a new twist to the...
Strive Masiyiwa’s Africa Business Fellowship For Young Americans Draws An Overwhelming Response
The inaugural U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, hosted by President Barack Obama over three days in July 2014 in Washington, D.C., so inspired billionaire entrepreneur-philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa...
Billionaires Building Capacity
As the African Grantmakers Affinity Group (AGAG)'s annual conference gets under way in New York City this week, AfricaStrictlyBusiness.com takes a look at how...
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Sino-Africa Relations: An Elder’s View
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of complaints that China is taking advantage of Africans even as it provides money...
