Five Trends That Will Influence Post-Pandemic Business Strategy
By David Shapiro, chief global equity strategist at Sasfin Wealth As South Africa heads into winter, the northern hemisphere heads into summer – but regardless of where you live, everything is different all over again, with experts seeming to agree that we’re closer to the end of the pandemic than we are to the beginning. Global […]
African Women Can Build A Better Future For All Africans With Oil And Natural Gas If Men Just Step Back
Over the last 30 days President Samia Suluhu Hassan has become the most important woman in the African energy industry. She has taken some of the most courageous steps in rebooting Tanzania’s energy sector and economy. The signing of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline with President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda was a perfect start […]
Mastercard New Payments Index: Consumer Appetite For Digital Payments Takes Off In Kenya
· 99% of consumers in Kenya are considering emerging payments such as biometrics, digital currencies and QR code, in addition to Contactless, according to the Mastercard New Payments Index · 96% of Kenyan consumers have access to more ways to pay compared to this time last year · 81% of consumers in Kenya say digital payments methods help them […]
Leading Pan-African Communications Firm Appoints Chief Operations Officer
Africa Communications Media Group Linda Weaver has been appointed Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Africa Communications Media Group (ACG), the leading African-owned, pan-African firm handling communications and reputation management for global clients in the African context. Linda, former Chief Operating Officer for Weber Shandwick Africa, joined the ACG head-office team (based in Johannesburg) earlier this […]
Ghanaian Upcycles Scrap Products into a Car
Kelvin Odartei Cruickshank, who is 19 and lives in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, has had a passion for building machines since he was 10. “I started by building prototype or micro-machines such as vacuum cleaners, robots, cars, a helicopter, etc.” He moved on to bigger machines and got to work building, from scratch, a two-person […]
Grooming Lagos Youths in a Game of Strategy
A dozen children crowd around plastic tables in the Majidun neighbourhood of Lagos. Intently focused on plastic mats printed with chess boards, the children thoughtfully move pieces on the board as supervisors observe their moves. The waterside shanty town is just across the lagoon from the mansions and towering office blocks of Nigeria’s commercial capital. […]
Mobile Gaming Platform Unlocks an Untapped African Market
South African startup Carry1st, a mobile games publishing platform that enables global gaming studios to unlock the untapped African market, has raised US$6 million in Series A funding to help it scale further. Launched in 2019 and based in Cape Town, Carry1st is a mobile games publisher serving the first generation of African smartphone users […]
The Green Gold Sweeping Sub-Saharan Africa
A rise in global demand for avocado is attracting farmers in Africa to tap the opportunities from the export market. In Uganda, farmers are already diversifying from their traditional cash crop coffee to plant avocado. Due to high global demand, the avocado has become a lucrative export product. Its consumption per capita increased by 406% […]
Why African States Aren’t Jumping at Rolling Out Vaccinations
A drive to get Africans vaccinated against the coronavirus is being hamstrung by governments’ reluctance to sign indemnity clauses, a preference for Pfizer vaccines over other more readily available shots and a lack of preparedness to distribute the inoculations. Fewer than 20-million people have been inoculated in Africa, with almost half of those living in […]
New Trade Restrictions Ruffle Cameroonian Farmers
Cameroon’s poultry farmers and sellers are calling on authorities at home and in Europe to loosen trade restrictions put in place over the coronavirus pandemic and avian influenza, which have more than doubled the price of chicken. Scores of chicken sellers in Cameroon’s capital held a one-hour sit-in Monday at the Mvog-Ada chicken market to protest […]
