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The Index reveals where in the world to find highest levels of socio-economic and commercial real estate dynamism Nairobi, Kenya was named a top city… Read More »Nairobi Named Leading Dynamic City In JLL’s City Momentum Index
The recently released Nairobi City Report presents a promising year ahead. Nairobi is not only the capital city of Kenya, it is the centre for economic activity… Read More »Report: Nairobi’s Economic Outlook
Meet Acha Leke, senior partner and chairman of McKinsey’s Africa office, and coauthor of Africa’s Business Revolution: How to Succeed in the World’s Next Big Growth Market. “Companies in Africa actually tend to grow faster and are more profitable than their peers around the world, because once you get the business model right, it’s actually more difficult for folks to come in and try to replicate it.”
Long before Joy Daniels became the manager of a travel company she was cleaning rooms at a guesthouse. But after joining a Fair Trade-certified business,… Read More »Making Tourism More Responsible
What shapes our perceptions (and misperceptions) about science? In an eye-opening talk, meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd explains how confirmation bias, the Dunning-Kruger effect and cognitive… Read More »3 Kinds Of Bias That Shape Your Worldview
Graça Machel, an international human-rights and development advocate, is the founder and patron of New Faces New Voices, a pan-African network that focuses on expanding the role and influence of women in the financial sector.
Aliko Dangote has built one of Africa’s largest industrial firms from humble origins as a trading company started with a small loan from his uncle in 1978. Today, the Nigeria-based Dangote Group has annual revenues exceeding $4 billion.
Protecting your crops from disease, pests and weeds has to be done if you want to be able to keep your farm profitable. Deciding how… Read More »How Protecting Your Crops is Vital for Your Business Success
Rwanda has been looking to create 100,000 off-farm jobs by 2020 under the SMART Rwanda Master Plan. What is the likelihood to achieve this? As… Read More »EA Debate: Smart Rwanda Master Plan Explained
Fred Swaniker is the founder of several innovative educational and leadership institutions, including the African Leadership University (ALU), whose campuses in Rwanda and Mauritius are based on a new model of higher education.