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Infrastructure
Transnet SOC Ltd, a South African rail, port and pipeline company, and other blue chip companies partnered with the NEPAD Business Foundation (NBF), a...
US Officials Renew Efforts to Increase Sales to Africa
As President Obama prepares for his weeklong visit to Africa at the end of June, his first since a one-day stopover in Ghana in...
How GE Succeeds in Sub-Saharan Africa
This year’s U.S. Export-Import Bank Annual Conference featured a welcome discussion on accelerating export opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa, the assumption being that U.S. companies...
Leveraging Nigeria’s Policies to Attract Investment
How governance and market policies in Nigeria are shaping opportunities for investment in the country is the focus of two days of discussions at...
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Economic Outlook
Africa’s agricultural, mining and energy resources could boost the continent’s economic growth and pave the way for a breakthrough in human development, according...
Interview: Nigerian Internet Millionaire Jason Njoku
Jason Njoku, Nigeria’s millionaire Internet entrepreneur, made history in 2012 when he completed what was possibly the largest fundraising round in the West African...
The Future of Africa’s Mobile Money Industry
The fifth annual Mobile Money Africa 2013 conference and tradeshow opened May 27 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa, with a...
Looking Inward for Innovation
At Columbia University’s 10th Annual African Economic Forum in March, Professor Murray Low, founder of the Columbia Entrepreneurship Program, engaged the top executives of...
GDP Growth by Subregion
Growth rates varied in 2012 by subregion, but remained robust in all of them. West Africa registered the highest growth, followed by East Africa,...
Growing Middle Class
Africa’s middle class is characterized by a per capita daily consumption of $2 to $20, according to the African Development Bank. The middle class...
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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...
