I wrote an article for a business news website several months ago about South Africa’s need to develop industrialists. The need is simply unavoidable: we incessantly...
Kenya’s economy is set to grow at a faster pace than previous years. The World Bank’s Kenya Economic Update (KEU) estimates that Kenya’s economy is poised...
Business across Africa wants to know who will be in President Muhammadu Buhari’s new cabinet.
There is a Swahili saying that goes; ‘a good day is known in the morning’. Is 2015 a good year for the Kenyan investment environment? All...
FORBES lists Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as one of the world’s 100 most powerful women. In charge of the public purse in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation,...
It is widely accepted that for many countries on the continent gross domestic product (GDP) is understated. The question is by how much. Ghana created quite...
With a population growth rate of 2.7%, the Democratic Republic of Congo needs double-digit growth to keep poverty down. It is going to be tricky in...
Infrastructure. Africa needs it; but no one wants to pay, especially when it costs $1.8 billion for a road.
Tanzania, East Africa’s second biggest economy after Kenya, has been a bastion of political stability. Political stability has translated into economic gains for this country of...
Two Nigerian boating entrepreneurs are ferrying visitors on the Lagos waterways and they’re doing well, but should tourism get the government’s backing, they really will be...