For Now, The Caribbean, Not Africa, Draws Black-American Hoteliers
Sub-Saharan Africa may be the most fertile ground for hotel expansion today, but members of the U.S.-based National Association of Black Hotel Owners and...
Priorities for African Agriculture & Food Systems
The outset of the 2014 Year of African Agriculture offers a unique opportunity. Specific actions are needed around the following priorities to support and...
Optimism About Africa’s Food & Agricultural Systems
The 2014 edition of Africa’s Big Seven, the continent’s leading food and beverage industry event, took place amid growing optimism about Africa’s food and...
Diasporans Among “40 Under Forty” U.S. Achievers
Five men and women in the U.S.-based African Diaspora are among the 2014 recipients of The Network Journal’s 40 Under Forty Achievers Award.
In its...
U.S. Apparel & Footwear Companies Ready For “Source Africa”
At just a year old, Source Africa ranks among the most important tradeshows for African suppliers of textiles, clothing and footwear. The American Apparel...
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...
Five Challenges Of Doing Business in Africa
In a move to diversify their supply chain around the world, U.S. apparel and footwear companies, including manufacturers and retailers, increasingly are looking to...
Nairobi Makes PwC’s ‘Cities of Opportunity’ List
Nairobi was added to the 2014 edition of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Cities of Opportunity report, becoming only the second African city after Johannesburg, South Africa, in...
Africa Eyes Nuclear Power; The U.S. Looks To SMRs
As the number of African countries expressing interest in, considering, or actively planning for nuclear energy grows, the United States hopes to become a...
Ten Ways for Africans Abroad To Empower Africa
Amini Kajunju, president and CEO of the Africa-America Institute (AAI), offered 10 ways in which Africans living abroad can help to empower Africa during...
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Sino-Africa Relations: An Elder’s View
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of complaints that China is taking advantage of Africans even as it provides money...
