Leadership In The Spotlight: Namibia’s President Hage Geingob, Ph.D.
On September 29 in New York City, Namibian President Hage G. Geingob, Ph.D., will receive the Africa-America Institute’s 2015 Lifetime Achievement and Distinguished Alumnus...
Cape Verde’s Fogo Spirit Coffee Brews Up A Starbucks Deal
Cape Verde offers what arguably is some of the tastiest coffee around, but few coffee aficionados outside of that West African nation are able...
Interview: Nigerian Internet Millionaire Jason Njoku
Jason Njoku, Nigeria’s millionaire Internet entrepreneur, made history in 2012 when he completed what was possibly the largest fundraising round in the West African...
Florizelle Liser At The Helm Of Corporate Council on Africa
Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), a leading Washington, D.C., business association focused on promoting U.S.-Africa trade and investment, named Florizelle (Florie) Liser, assistant U.S....
Canal+ and iROKO to Launch Francophone Africa’s First SVOD Mobile Android App
Canal Plus Group S.A., a global media and content production and distribution group based in France, and iROKO, Africa’s largest Internet TV operator and...
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...
PEOPLE: Dolika Banda, Arjun Dhillon, Danial Hailu, Amin Manekia
Dolika Banda, CEO, ARC Ltd. The African Risk Capacity Insurance Co, Ltd. (ARC Ltd.) appointed former IFC director Dolika Banda (above) chief executive officer,...
Investment Surges In Digital Startups
In 2015, German pharma Merck KGaA launched a digital health accelerator in Nairobi, Kenya, its first such accelerator outside Germany.
“Africa is one of the...
Face2Face Africa Celebrates Its 2016 Honorees
Media company Face2Face Africa (f2fAfrica.com) for the fifth consecutive year will celebrate success stories of the pan-African community at its 2016 F.A.C.E. List Awards...
President Obama’s High Hopes For The 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit
President Obama has high hopes for the sixth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), set for July 25-26 in Nairobi, Kenya.
“If enough folks respond to...
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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...
