Leillah Shekalala: Disrupting Tech Space to Empower African Caribbean Hair Businesses
LEILLAH SHEKALALA: DISRUPTING THE TECH SPACE TO EMPOWER AFRICAN CARIBBEAN HAIR BUSINESSESS
For years Leillah Sekalala struggled to find a consistently good salon for her...
Ethiopia’s Tourism Revenue Falls by Over $7m Due to Protests
Ethiopia’s tourism revenue has taken a massive dip in the wake of anti-government protests that started a year ago. The Horn of Africa country...
ECOWAS and the free movement of goods, persons and establishment
The article examines the challenges facing the non-implementation of the ‘ECOWAS’ Protocol on the Free Movement of goods, services, persons and capital. In its...
Overcoming Apartheid season on The Africa Channel
In aid of South African Freedom Day on 27th April, we bring to you the 5 part documentary series of Mandela – an examination...
Tanzanian customers get free mobile access to Facebook
Tigo Tanzania in a partnership with Facebook have agreed free access to Facebook services in English and a new Kiswahili version through their mobile...
DOES FOREIGN AID MAKE ECONOMIC SENSE?
Finn Tarp, Director, UNU-WIDER
Foreign aid is often seen as different from other forms of investment, and some argue that rather than having a positive...
Climate change and East Africa’s Economic progress
It is a misconception in many African countries that climate change is a ‘first world problem. While Africa has contributed little to global warming,...
Growth of Regional Banks in Africa
African banks are expanding into neighbouring countries and further afield benefiting from their knowledge and expertise in familiar territory.
Over the last five years Africa...
A New Market Power: the 86 percenters
Vijay Mahajan is the author of three books on market opportunities in the developing world: The 86% Solution, Africa Rising and his most recent...
Small Scale Enterprises are Sustainable Foreign Direct Investments
In this article Mazdak outlines the aspects which characterize SMEs as sustainable FD Investors and the relevance of SMEs as sustainable FDIs.
There has always...