Vivienne Yeda on the EADB and Small Businesses
The complaint is all too common: In Africa, well performing small and medium-size businesses cannot obtain credit from commercial lenders in order to expand...
AAI Celebrates 30 Years of Honoring African Achievement
The Africa-America Institute (AAI), a U.S.-based international education and policy organization dedicated to strengthening the human capacity of Africans, will host its 30th Annual...
The Summit: Through The Lens Of A Cherished Value
In his book, Achievement As Value in Igbo/African Identity: The Ethics, Nigerian author Vernantius Emeka Ndukaihe describes the art of dialogue and conversation as...
YALI: Obama’s Africa Youth Investment Vehicle
In line with the U.S. administration’s commitment to human capacity development in Africa through entrepreneurship, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. African...
Missed Opportunity At U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
The United States missed an opportunity to deepen its trade relations with Africa at this week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., a leading...
$$$ Behind Words At U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
Sudanese-British telecoms billionaire Mo Ibrahim summed up the sentiments of many Africans attending the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. this week.
The unprecedented Aug....
Black Lawmakers Host Dialogue With African CEOs
U.S. Rep. Gregory W. Meeks and the Congressional Black Caucus Africa Task Force will host “A Dialogue with African CEOs” in Washington, D.C., on...
Ex-Im Bank Fray May Dilute Obama’s Africa Message
President Obama will emphasize to African leaders in August that the United States is a committed partner in their continent’s economic development, but fighting...
Face2Face Africa Launches Pan-African Achievement Weekend
Face2face Africa, a media group focused on re-branding Africa for a global audience of young people with a shared ancestry in Africa, this month...
Africa Trade: Five Common Supply Chain Issues
Angela Dean, director of global business development at Partner Africa, a social enterprise nonprofit based in Nairobi, Kenya, that provides ethical audit and assessment...