According to the landlords, contemporaries, teachers and neighbors who have lined up in front of the media in recent weeks, Kweku Adoboli was a sociable, intelligent...
Who leaves home to sell hot dogs in the middle of a war? Albert Hechter did in Mozambique and it made him a millionaire
When Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi was looking to start a new business quickly, East Africa beckoned. He identified Kenya and Ethiopia for cultivating and exporting roses, bought...
Few people would want to build a mine in a country in the grip of civil war; fewer still would even consider a vast mining operation...
Heavyweight Evander Holyfield—the Real Deal—has suffered much in his long career; despite a heart attack and a bitten ear, he fights on.
Oil in Africa is not a new game, but the players are changing as the economic balance of power in the world tips towards the East.
Zimbabwe’s contentious empowerment laws are the talk of Africa. It has spooked foreign investors, but for many Zimbabweans the policy means business as usual.
Why would the world’s 212th richest man want to pour his millions into an unpredictable banking sector? Cork billionaire Américo Amorim believes he has seen the...
A new generation of Nigerian entrepreneurs is looking for fresh ways to make their way in business. Ola Orekunrin has shouldered the pain of a family...
No-one said becoming a millionaire was going to be easy. Nigerian oil king Wale Tinubu could have been forgiven for thinking the world was against him....
