Nigerians love chocolate as much as anyone, yet they have no industry making it.
The middle class may be on the march in Rwanda but blackouts and potholes are its greatest fear.
When Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman in the famous “Rumble in the Jungle” in Kinshasa in 1974, the purse was a world record $5 million for...
You are three men far from home in a place where corruption and guns lurk. You are down to your last $100 at the beginning of...
Yvonne Chaka Chaka—the queen of African music—has sung for Nelson Mandela and royalty. Now she is multi-tasking in trying to hit the high notes as an...
It’s less than two decades since cellphones landed on the African continent. They have changed lives and weighed less every year.
Forget private jets and fast cars. This is the gritty story of an entrepreneur who has lived through the worst of times; a man who came...
Sixty years ago South Africa was no country for budding black entrepreneurs, but Richard Maponya managed to defy the odds and opened a backstreet store that...
It cost two young, bright companies millions to grab a slice of Africa’s hottest telecommunications market. But now they are both limping and left out. What...
When Nelson Mandela walked out of prison on February 11, 1990, David Phume was an eight-year-old in short trousers… Now, through 22 years of change, the...
