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I have always loved what I do—and I take pride in doing it well. But I’ve never allowed work to come at the expense of what matters most: my family.…

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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Ghana’s unpopular tax on mobile money transfers is hitting the poor hardest

Scepticism about mobile money tax is rooted in concerns about equity and in mistrust of the government

Liz Truss: UK-Africa ties face a gloomy future as political myopia reigns

Africa is likely to feature in British high-level politics only when it is in the government’s narrow self-interest.

Zimbabwe nurses are being caught in UK ‘bonded labour’ schemes

Care workers, lured from south east Africa to start their careers in the United Kingdom, are being scammed and exploited…

The tough decisions facing South Africa’s ANC

The Kenyan elections have just concluded with the outcome now being contested in court. Kenyans should, up until this stage,…

Securing the roles of the future for the next generation in Africa

Investment in the younger generations will be key in the future expansion of Africa’s economy and help create a workforce…

Zimbabwean study challenges notion that women are inherently close to nature

Zimbabwean women are trapped in a cycle of increasing labour and environmental degradation.

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants to win, whatever the cost

@edmnangagwa will ride rough shod every other law on public finance management to ensure his re-election

70 years on, pioneering art collection returns to Zimbabwe

For the first time in his life, Gift Livingstone Sango, 65, saw a painting by his father depicting Jesus as…

The key to treating TB may be in a common carbohydrate. What we know so far

There are very promising results on the potential treatment of TB using curdlan-based nanoparticles.

Black and Female: A woman’s defiant fight to write

Zimbabwean author celebrates the act of artistic creation while exploring the colonial, racial and gender biases she has faced