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Sports tourism: The key to economic development in Africa
Sports tourism can provide opportunities to jump start tourism and travel economy post COVID-19, harness community togetherness, accelerate cultural and…
For Africa’s Manufacturers, Going Green May Offer Profits
The days of smokestack economies are slowly winding down. As evidence of climate change mounts and governments take urgent action…
For Africa’s Manufacturers, Going Green May Offer Profits
The days of smokestack economies are slowly winding down. As evidence of climate change mounts and governments take urgent action…
Small cannabis producers the losers in policy changes across Africa
Cannabis is a drug crop with a long history in Africa. Alongside coca and opium poppy, it has been subjected to international control for…
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Southern Africa’s cryptocurrency problem
The Sadc model law on public financial management (PFM), which the Sadc parliamentary forum is developing has attracted more praise,…
Chipper Cash: A money revolution
The story of Chipper Cash’s cofounders begins in Africa, passes through Iowa, and winds up in Silicon Valley (with a…
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, how is Africa’s higher education sector faring?
Higher education on the continent is gradually recovering from the shocks of 2020.
How Russia-Ukraine conflict could influence Africa’s food supplies
African countries import billions worth of global grains and oilseed from Russia and Ukraine. Prices have already been soaring.
Why African family businesses are failing at multigenerational wealth
In Kenya, family businesses are significant and are a source of employment for more than 60 percent of the population.
Zimbabwe’s March by-elections, a dry run for 2023 polls
Speculation is high that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s deputy and former military general, Constantino Chiwenga, is plotting to put his hat…
Can Africa unite?
As African heads of state and government meet with their European counterparts to discuss how to deepen relations between the…
Africa is the next big skills market, if its youth get education and opportunities
Establishing a youth-friendly eco-system by creating entrepreneurship hubs, business networking spaces, and ease of trade to pan-African markets will offer…
Why forex trading is exploding exponentially in Africa
Forex trading has long been an immensely popular means for traders and investors around the world to grow their wealth…
State capture in South Africa: how the rot set in and how the project was rumbled
South Africa’s institutional safeguards, civil society NGOs, and democratic culture are more robust than those of some other countries