Africa Is Becoming An Innovative Adopter, Technologies Pioneer
California market research and growth strategy consultancy Frost & Sullivan takes its Growth Innovation Leadership (GIL) congress back to Africa in August for its...
Why Africa is Becoming Less Dependent on Commodities
There's turmoil in commodity markets, but Africa, which for decades has depended on revenues from commodity exports to invest in economic growth, continues to...
Somalia Resumes Business
Somalia officially began exporting livestock from the main port in it’s capital, Mogadishu, for the first time in 22 years, when on March 8...
Driving STEM-based Development In Africa
More than 800 scientific and industry thought-leaders, political leaders and young scientists came together from March 8-10 in Dakar, Senegal, to chart a new...
Japan’s 21st Century Engagement With Africa
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Digital Currency: A Leapfrog Moment for Africa
The decibel level in the conversation about digital currencies in Africa jumped several notches when M-Pesa, sub-Saharan Africa’s world-leading mobile payment platform, embraced bitcoin.
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World Bank: Economic Impact of Ebola 2014
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa could reverse years of economic gains in the region. Thousands of lives been lost since January 2014, closed...
Nairobi Makes PwC’s ‘Cities of Opportunity’ List
Nairobi was added to the 2014 edition of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Cities of Opportunity report, becoming only the second African city after Johannesburg, South Africa, in...
Ten Ways for Africans Abroad To Empower Africa
Amini Kajunju, president and CEO of the Africa-America Institute (AAI), offered 10 ways in which Africans living abroad can help to empower Africa during...
A Case for SMEs At The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
In 1994 Marie Diongoye Konate bought an old milling machine and set up a small food processing business in a corner of a popular...
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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...
