Seswaa: Botswana’s National Dish
Original article published at TasteAtlas. Botswana’s national dish is almost always found at special occasions, weddings, and during the country’s celebration of the independence day. The dish is called seswaa, also known as chotlho, denoting a slow-cooked beef stew. Once the meat is cooked, it is pounded with large wooden pestles, shredded, then heavily salted to add […]
Union Bank To Support Start-Ups Through The UnionX Innovation Challenge
Union Bank, one of Nigeria’s foremost financial institutions, has unveiled the 2021 UnionX Innovation Challenge, as part of efforts to support young start-ups and boost innovation in the start-up ecosystem. Tagged ‘A New Discovery’, the Challenge will discover, showcase, and support eligible entrepreneurs across Nigeria with innovative, technology-focused Minimum Viable Products (MVPs). Speaking on the […]
How Female Appointments Could Change Africa’s Fortunes
Last week, the World Trade Organization appointed its first African and first female director-general, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The Nigerian-American has a stellar financial pedigree, having worked as Nigeria’s finance minister, and at the World Bank for decades. And in mid-February, economist and deputy governor of Rwanda’s Central Bank, Monique Nsanzabaganwa, was elected as the African Union’s […]
Tanzania Moves to Regulate Revenue from Airbnb
As part of plans to raise more money from tourism in Tanzania, its government has announced that it is giving a 50 days ultimatum to short-stay accommodation operators in the country. Government officials will go from ‘house to house’ in the coming days in order to register US-based rental service Airbnb operators in the country. […]
Africa can be at the Heart of the Rebirth of an Entire Industry
For many countries on the continent, tourism is one of the pillars of economic growth. Many hopes therefore rest on this sector, which is now being undermined by an unprecedented pandemic. Countries such as Kenya, Egypt or Morocco, whose GDP is so closely linked to the health of tourism, would be right to be concerned […]
South Africa’s New Bank on the Block Goes Global
Private equity firm Apis Partners and a Phillipines-based family-owned conglomerate JG Summit, have bought 11.5% of TymeBank, SA’s largest digital-only bank, controlled by African Rainbow Capital (ARC), for R1.6bn. It’s a transaction that values TymeBank at R15bn — which isn’t bad going for a bank that launched just two years ago and now has 3-million […]
Sentiment Around Investing in East Africa Wanes
At the beginning of 2020, few developing world regions excited as much attention as East Africa. Driven by a resurgent Kenyan economy, the promise of economic liberalisation in Ethiopia and the possibility of vast oil production in Uganda, investors were flocking to the region in the hope of taking advantage of bold new opportunities. A […]
