Business in Africa
Kigali’s Africa CEO Forum 2026 Signals Africa’s New Economic Sovereignty Push
By Adonis Byemelwa The new Africa CEO Forum 2026 solicitations, to be held in Rwanda, position Kigali at the focal point of a gradually rising African discussion on who will…
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$10,000 Mandela-Era Cheque Fuels Africa Backlash Over Xenophobia in South Africa
By Ajong Mbapndah L A faded $10,000 cheque written in 1994 to Nelson Mandela has…
Africa’s AI Reality: What’s Working, What’s Not, and What Must Change
By Roger B. Jantio* As the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the…
Russia Resettling White South African Farmers
By Kestér Kenn Klomegâh Russia has allocated 500 hectares of land in the outskirts of…
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Goldman Sachs Appoints Nigerian Banker To Its Board
By Mfonobong Nsehe* Goldman Sachs has appointed Adebayo Ogunlesi, a Nigerian investment banker and private equity tycoon, to its board…
Africa’s Leadership Fails Billionaire Mo Ibrahim’s Test, But Technocrats Rise
By Calestous Juma* The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has announced that it could not find a winner for its US$5 million…
Will South Africa’s struggles overshadow its potential?
BY Mark Mobius* Africa is a continent many investors bypass, but from my perspective as a long-term investor, I think…
Women Entrepreneurs Drive Growth in Africa
By JOSH KRON* KAMPALA, UGANDA — Far too often, in the view of Africa’s budding female entrepreneurs, their continent is…
Is Africa’s digital revolution under threat?
By Dele Fatunla* Back in the 1990s, before everyone had two mobile phones and Skype was still a distant dream,…
Is Brazil the inheritor of the Portuguese empire in Africa?
China has been under scrutiny as it invests in Africa, but another player has been largely ignored: BrazilBy Nikolas Kozloff*…
Banro Foundation’s “Celebrate the Congo” Event Raises $112,000 for New Hospital in Maniema Province, DRC
- Banro Foundation fundraiser highlights a year of spending on health care in the DRC, including construction of four new…
Wealthy Nigerians spend $6.5bn on 130 private jets
By Tunji Abioye* The growing penchant for private jets acquisition has cost wealthy Nigerians a sum of $6.5bn (N1.02tn) in…