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| Jun 6, 2023 | Ranked: The 14 wildest past jobs of presidents, popes and prime ministers. And Zelenskyy's isn't even the strangest. | (Clockwise from top left) Before they were presidents: Ali Bongo Ondimba, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, George Weah, Bashar al-Assad, Xavier Bettel, and Lula. Alain Bongo/YouTube / Kvartal 95/YouTube / Ben Radford/Allsport via Getty Images / Louai B... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | Baobab invests $200k in 4 new African start-ups | The Baobab Network, a Nairobi-based accelerator that invests in early-stage tech companies across Africa, has announced its latest cohort of four investees, each of which secures $50 000 in funding.
Boabab has been accelerating and investi... |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Blockchain-powered insurance: Meet the decentralised insurance protocol, Etherisc, insuring Kenyan farms against bad climate | Share this article:
The concept of decentralised insurance became a theoretical possibility with the emergence of decentralised finance (DeFi). Etherisc is bringing this concept to life, helping African farmers insure their crops against ba... |
| Apr 4, 2022 | De-risking Nigerian women farmers through innovative insurance | As simple as agriculture appears, it is a risky business. It is more than just putting seeds in the ground and waiting for them to sprout. Currently, the sector has become vulnerable to many risks; it is still recovering from the blow dealt... |
| Dec 17, 2021 | What Wowzi’s $3.2 million raise tells us about the future of influence in Africa | Who are Africa’s future influencers?
If you ask Wowzi, a Kenyan-founded online marketplace for influencer marketing, it’s everyone.
Founded in 2018, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wowzi is a seamless influencer marketing platform th... |
| Sep 22, 2019 | Succession Politics and the Renewed Threat of Ethnic Violence in Kenya | Editor’s Note: Kenya’s politics often appear peaceful, but they are punctuated by dangerous periods of intense violence, particularly during election season. For now, Kenya’s main groups are at peace, but Narrelle Gilchrist of the Universit... |
| Slam dunk! Inside the NBA’s Basketball Africa League | David Thomas
September 6th 2021 •
Africa •
Trade & Investment
On a late May evening in the cavernous Kigali Arena in Rwanda, the players of Egypt’s Zamalek SC triumphantly lifted a newly minted golden trophy confirming them as champions... |
| Kenya elections: Ruto and Odinga square up to fight for presidency | Charlie Mitchell
May 26th 2022 •
East Africa, Kenya •
Trade & Investment
Kenya’s upcoming presidential election might mark the seventh time its citizens have expressed their views at the ballot box, but polls in the East African powerho... |
| France moves to strengthen economic relations with Nigeria | Kelechukwu Iruoma
August 9th 2021 •
Nigeria •
Trade & Investment
In April 2021, the French minister of foreign trade and economic attractiveness, Franck Riester, was in Nigeria on a two-day bilateral mission. At a meeting with the Niger... |
| African youth positive about China but sceptical about resource extraction | Leo Komminoth
June 13th 2022 •
Africa •
Technology & Information
China is seen by African youth as the most influential foreign player on the African continent, but negative sentiment is growing regarding the activities of resource extr... |
| When will our governments learn that African lives matter? | An almost universal response to George Floyd’s death was the visceral indignation it provoked in everyone who saw the video. It was so inherently unjust, the revulsion and anger it triggered was global.
Syrians living in camps for internall... |
| Increase climate funding for the developing world, says Africa’s chief negotiator at Cop26 | African Business meets Tanguy Gahouma-Bekale in Libreville only hours after he has finalised what he calls Africa’s most ambitious climate law yet – far-reaching legislation that helps Gabon on its mission to cut its carbon emissions by at ... |
| Nigerian punters bet big on Afcon | Pelumi Salako
March 1st 2022 •
Africa, Nigeria, West Africa •
Finance & Services
On 6 February, Africa’s biggest footballing competition, the African Cup of Nations (Afcon), came to a riveting crescendo in a final match between the Tera... |
| What does the ‘international rules-based order’ mean for Africa? | On July 5, 1852, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass was invited to give an Independence Day oration to an anti-slavery society. His speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, was a tour de force on how meaningless all ... |
| The battle against ransomware | African Business
May 10th 2017 •
Nigeria •
Technology & Information
It all started with a seemingly harmless email asking him to click a link to get free information on how to keep his computer secure against hackers and cybercriminals,... |
| Ebola clips wings of high-flying ASKY | African Business
October 26th 2014 •
Africa •
Trade & Investment
The deadly Ebola virus has not only visited tragedy on thousands of West Africans, it has caused havoc to commerce and travel. The travel restrictions and bans have severe... |
| Davos 2023: Where can cooperation take us in a fragmented world? | A recent TV documentary showed views of the world taken from space; it opened with a shot of the near solar system where we saw a tiny, bright object in the immensity of the mostly inky black space. As the camera zoomed in, the object turne... |
| Cameroon: A magical blend of wonders | African Business
March 3rd 2022 •
Cameroon, Central Africa •
Trade & Investment
Imagine a giant hand plucking up tiny pieces of every country in Africa, then putting all the pieces together in one place – well, that is Cameroon. Known a... |
| Review: “J’assume”, the memoirs of Béchir Ben Yahmed | African Business
January 17th 2022 •
Africa •
Technology & Information
My mentor, Béchir Ben Yahmed, the founder of Jeune Afrique, a stable that dominated pan-African publishing in French, died from Covid last year. He had just finished... |
| Amazon targets Nollywood push with Inkblot Productions deal | Will McBain
February 2nd 2022 •
Nigeria, West Africa •
Technology & Information
In 2010, Lagosian lawyer Zulumoke Oyibo studied the screenwriting book Story by Robert McKee, together with three friends in finance and marketing who share... |
| Gabon’s rainforest development leads the way for Africa | Jack Dutton
November 2nd 2021 •
Central Africa, Gabon •
Energy & Resources
Le Fromager, French for “the cheesemaker”, is a tree named after its soft wood, which is used in the manufacturing of cheese boxes. The tree is one of the talles... |
| ‘Nollywood model’ could help unlock 20m African film jobs says UNESCO | David Thomas
October 8th 2021 •
Nigeria •
Technology & Information
Africa’s film and audiovisual industry could create over 20 million jobs and an extra $20bn in annual revenues with further investment, according to a major new report b... |
| ECOWAS slaps sanctions on Mali | African Business
January 14th 2022 •
Mali, West Africa •
Trade & Investment
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has ramped up sanctions on Mali and activated its standby military force following the failure of transit... |
| AFCON is a winner for Cameroon | African Business
March 3rd 2022 •
Cameroon, Central Africa •
Trade & Investment
Eight years after being given the right to host Africa’s most prestigious tournament, and two and half years after it originally planned to do so, Cameroon ... |
| Will EU-AU summit reshape Europe-Africa relations? | African Business
February 18th 2022 •
Africa •
Trade & Investment
The sixth summit of European Union (EU) and African Union (AU) heads of state and government concluded in Brussels on 18 February with the issuing of a “Joint Vision for ... |
| ‘Macron understands the importance of Nigeria in Africa’ | What was the idea behind the creation of the France-Nigeria Business Council?
The France-Nigeria Business Council was initiated by French President Emmanuel Macron to facilitate contacts between Nigerian and French businesses, to catalyse s... |
| Gas is a dangerous distraction for Africa | At the start of this century, when much of the developed world woke up to the dangers of smoking, Big Tobacco turned to Africa to seek out new profits.
To this day, in my country, Uganda, and many others, foreign tobacco companies work to u... |
| Return of Benin bronzes offers boost to Nigeria’s tourism sector | Heidi Garnett
August 17th 2022 •
Nigeria, West Africa •
Trade & Investment
Benin City – today one of the biggest cities in Nigeria, located in the country’s southern Edo state – was for hundreds of years the capital of the wealthy and p... |
| Macky Sall shakes up investment in Senegal | Tom Collins
October 18th 2021 •
Senegal, West Africa •
Trade & Investment
On the outskirts of a dusty village around 70km northeast of Dakar lies the largest windfarm in West Africa. Stretching across 41 hectares, the Taiba N’Diaye wind... |
| Beyond the ‘Buhari Bounce’ | African Business
May 6th 2015 •
Nigeria •
Finance & Services
Currency traders are backing Muhammadu Buhari, but the Nigerian president-elect is still keeping his economic policies close to his chest.
From his berth outside a handicraft ... |
