Africa Progress Panel Pulls No Punches
The Africa Progress Panel pulled no punches when it turned the spotlight on Africa’s forest and ocean resources in the 2014 edition of its...
Seven Takeaways From Harvard’s Catherine Duggan
Catherine S. M. Duggan, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Business, Government and International Economy unit of Harvard Business School who specializes in financial-sector...
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Economic Growth Projections
Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa will reach 5.2 percent in 2014, up from 4.7 per cent in 2013, due to growing...
Safari Yetu
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
Safari Yetu, Kiswahili for “Our Journey,” is a web and mobile-based reservation and ticketing...
Frustration Over Slow Progress To EAC Common Market
A new analysis confirms what has long frustrated East Africa’s business leaders: progress toward the establishment of a common market across Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda,...
How AMREF Is Transforming Africa’s Health Sector
Earlier this year I spoke with Peter Ngatia, director of capacity building at the Kenya-based African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), about his organization’s...
Tony Elumelu Testifes In Washington on Power Africa
Billionaire Nigerian entrepreneur and philanthropist Tony O. Elumelu, chairman of Heirs Holdings, was invited to testify at the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Africa’s hearing...
BoxBuzz
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
BoxBuzz is an alert system that sends text messages to the mobile phones of...
Africa’s “Very, Very, Fragile” Health System
When armed gunmen on March 23 opened fire on worshippers in a church just outside the port city of Mombasa, Kenya, killing six at...
Mobile Money
Africa accounts for the lion’s share of live mobile money services, with 52 percent of global deployments, according to the 2013 industry report published...
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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...
