China’s trade with African countries in the first quarter climbed by nearly a fifth from a year earlier, while its direct investment in the continent soared...
Haiti’s government announced on Sunday fuel price increases of up to 20 percent in an effort to shore up the country’s public finances. The Moïse administration...
Kenya’s largest wireless carrier, Safaricom has revealed that it intends to expand its M-Pesa (mobile money) financial services across Africa, having built a proven solution in...
The measure will offer Tanzanians a share of the mining industry’s profits Tanzania’s president John Magufuli said his administration will enforce a new rule requiring mining...
JLC Infrastructure fund set to invest in new projects NBA legend Magic Johnson is launching an infrastructure investment fund. Johnson revealed late last month that he...
On a warm and sunny afternoon in South Africa’s wine country, Ntsiki Biyela smiled as she remembered arriving here in the famed Stellenbosch region just east...
By Eugene Yiga Digital disruption has brought essential financial services to millions of people in Africa, where the traditional architecture of banks, cards and transfer services...
(Press Release – Marketwired) – Holberton School, the 2-year school for full-stack software engineers, today announced that Grammy award-winning artist Shaffer C. Smith (better known by...
FelCor aquisition makes RLJ Lodging Trust on of the biggest REITs in the U.S. RLJ Lodging Trust said on Monday it would buy peer FelCor Lodging...
(Press Release) – Known as a philanthropist, an entrepreneur, and even a freedom fighter, Jean Conille is moving progress forward in Haiti as one of the...
(Press release) – Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is on the rebound in 2017 after registering the worst decline in more than 2 decades in 2016,...
(Press Release) – Business leader Ossie Kendrix has been named president and CEO with the African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin (AACCW), the board of...
By Christabel Ligami 85 – 95 percent of tariff lines to be liberalized African countries have agreed to give more options to countries joining the Continental...
Initiative is set to provide solar technologies to 75 million households and businesses over 5 years. The African Development Bank (AfDB) has unveiled its new...
Nashiru Issahaku leaves Bank of Ghana for personal reasons Ernest Addison – a senior monetary policy expert – was on Thursday named Governor of the Central...
Nigerian entrepreneur Oscar Ekponimo who seeks to alleviate the suffering of hungry Nigerians through a software service that redistributes food to people in need and reduces...
Four new factory buildings rise up from fields on the outskirts of Senegal’s capital, the first phase of a government plan to woo Chinese companies shifting...
Stephen Hill, president of programming at BET Networks, will be departing from the channel, where he has served for the past 18 years. Connie Orlando, senior...
Move will increase the number of investors in government securities Kenya began selling its first mobile phone-based government bond on Thursday, part of an ambitious plan...
Barbados Prime Minister, Freundel Stuart on Wednesday rejected a suggestion from former Prime Minister Owen Arthur that the island-nation has no option but to go to...
Bostic becomes first African American to head one of the Fed’s regional banks Raphael Bostic a former Obama administration housing official, has been selected as the...
New domain to be available to the public in July In the beginning was .com, followed by a host of other .somethings, but on Friday, 32...
(Press Release) – Unleash Launch 2017 kicks-off in Chicago with a powerful 2-day conference to help Black professionals unleash their dreams and launch their businesses. The...
(BlackPRWire) – Today, African American women are truly getting down to business. It seems that having a small business is big business. It is hard to...
Guyana could send future oil production to Trinidad & Tobago or Suriname for refining, a government official said on Thursday. Between 800 million and 1.4 billion...
Devaluation simply not going to happen The Barbados dollar is not in any “danger of a devaluation” against the US dollar, asserted the Island-nation’s Finance minister...
Losses attributed to forex rates and fine imposed by Nigerian regulator Africa’s giant telecommunications group MTN is announcing full-year losses for 2016 driven by a US$1.1...
Nigeria becomes a net exporter of cement – thanks to the Dangote Group. (Press Release) – Following the increase in its production capacity, Dangote Group subsidiary...
DeLisle Worrell, was on Friday dismissed as Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados – less than 24 hours after the Court of Appeal lifted an...
(Press Release) – Business managers, leaders and entrepreneurs making strategic business decisions are invited to the Lagos Business School Africa Business Conference 2017. Facilitated by Lagos...
The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is projecting an average 1.7 percent growth in its borrowing member countries (BMC) this year, following last year’s performance of...
Work on Kenya’s Lake Turkana Wind Power project – Africa’s largest wind farm – is on track completion and finally on the home stretch to switch...
The 2017 Africa CEO Forum, the biggest international African private sector gathering, will host over 1,000 African and international personalities and key African industrial, financial and...
Financing Infrastructure in Africa Infrastructure development is a large part of the factors that would drive growth in Africa, lead to job creation and improve lives....
(PRNewswire) – Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) earlier this week issued the following statement...
AMCON takes control of Arik Air Arik Air is in receivership due to its inability to pay workers and creditors, prompting the government to take control...
Nigeria is targeting economic growth of at least 7 percent per annum by 2020, the Ministry of Budget and National Planning said on Tuesday, a far...
(PRNewswire) – Carver Bancorp, Inc. – the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank (“Carver”) – in recognition of Black History Month, had its executives ring...
Pan-African banking group Ecobank, late last month launched a challenge for African tech start-ups to build and deploy Fintech innovations and solutions across the continent. The...
(Press Release) – FIS, a global leader in financial services technology, today announced that Vista Equity Partners has acquired its Public Sector and Education businesses for...
Bounce TV earlier this month acquired all assets of The Trumpet Awards – the prestigious annual event celebrating African American achievements and contributions. Bounce TV, the...
Orlando Ashford, president of Holland America Line in Seattle, Washington, was earlier this month elected chair of the Executive Leadership Council – the pre-eminent national organization...
“Devaluation of the Barbados dollar not an agenda item” Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has reiterated that there will be no devaluation of the country’s currency...
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on Monday announced it was inviting applications from young entrepreneurs in several regional countries to participate in a technology incubation program...
Aliko Dangote and his Dangote Group are in the final stages of setting up a US$100 million vehicle assembly plant in the Ikeja industrial suburb of...
By Stephen Lande Washington, DC | When Stephen Hayes called to say that the Board had finally found a replacement for him as chief executive at...
ExxonMobil, announced yesterday a second oil discovery off the shores of Guyana. Indicating that there were “positive results from its Payara-1 well”. Payara is ExxonMobil’s second...
Nigeria is looking to issue a debut diaspora bond by March to raise funds from Nigerians abroad, after completing a US$1 billion eurobond sale this month,...
(PRNewswire) – Africa’s largest business incubator, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), is now accepting applications from African entrepreneurs, with business ideas that can transform Africa. The...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., has revealed that Rosalind Brewer, the longest-serving President and CEO of its warehouse chain Sam’s Club, will be retiring next month, and would...
At the African Development Bank (AfDB), 2016 was a transformative year. It was a year of operational accomplishment and institutional renewal. At the institutional level, the...
By Shola AdeKoya Konga.com was founded in July 2012 and started purely as an online retailer selling baby and beauty products. Its growth was rapid, rising...
Robert F. Smith, the CEO and Founder of Vista Equity Partners, has offered to sponsor the education of 24 girls from the Chibok community, including the...
(PRNewsire) – Black Enterprise will present its highest honor, in recognition of the achievements of black women during the Women of Power Legacy Awards, on March...
The Bahamas government says it is “disappointed” at the latest downgrade by the international credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P). S&P downgraded the Bahamas’ credit...
Black Lives Matter is working in partnership with ad agency J. Walter Thompson to develop an online interactive map of Black-owned businesses, the Huffington Post has...
Aviation staff have launched an indefinite strike targeting Arik Air – Nigeria’s largest carrier – amid a dispute over salary arrears and contracts, three trade unions...
Aida Muluneh is working towards a new more accurate portrayal of Africa. Muluneh rails against the negative portrayals of Africa by foreigners. The 42-year-old came returned...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) last month approved a US$10 million equity investment in the Technology and Innovation in Developing Economies (TIDE) Fund I to boost...
Tanzania and Nigeria’s Dangote Cement have reached a deal on the supply of natural gas to the firm’s manufacturing plant in the East African country after...
The leadership of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a seed equity capital investment of US$25 million into the African Domestic Bond Fund (ADBF). The...
Polgreen succeeds founder Arianna Huffington who stepped down in August The Huffington Post has tapped New York Times editor Lydia Polgreen to succeed founder Arianna Huffington...
By Josephine Wawira eCommerce grown rapidly accross Africa eCommerce has rapidly grown in the recent years across Africa and the world at large. This is conceivably...
Antigua & Barbuda has given the United States until the end of the year to settle the long running dispute over internet gaming amid claims in...
(Nationwide ) – In an age of so many disruptive technologies, there are few that stand out as true potential game-changers. George McKinney and his company,...
“It’s hard for young female African entrepreneurs to feel like they fit in, if they can’t see any role models out there” Young female African entrepreneurs...
By Khalid Bekhtaoui “Africa is the story. The big story is Africa. The Chinese and Japanese are fighting over Africa. This is a market of a...
By Jennifer Ehidiamen Steed Kassa returned to Gabon, after a few years of studying and working in Canada. Although his academic and professional background is in...
Carrier wins award for 5th year in a row Ethiopian Airlines – Africa’s largest carrier – has been named Airline of the Year by the by...
Above the sacks of seeds and coal, 3 kerosene lamps gather dust in the tiny shed that Kenyan chicken farmer Bernard calls home. He prefers to...
Ngunze steps down in response to pilots demands Kenya Airways chief executive office, Mbuvi Ngunze has announced his departure from the carrier. Ngunze is to leave...
(PRNewswire) – The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and Complete College America (CCA) earlier this month announced the formation of a new partnership that will focus...
Washington becomes the academy’s first head in its 70 year history A veteran producer is the newly elected chief executive of the Television Academy and the...
Court in Chad imposed record fine on Exxon Mobile Corp. in October Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. is negotiating with Chad’s government about a record fine...
Jamaica has opened its first natural gas plant and wants to position itself as a future liquefied natural gas (LNG) hub in the region. Jamaican Prime...
Twister acquisition is part of Dangote’s strategy meet Nigeria’s gas requirements The Dangote Group, last month acquired a gas plant, Twister B.V., a company headquartered in...
By Ifeanyi Ndiomewese The challenges surrounding mobile TV in Africa are enormous, but they are not insurmountable. Nigeria, in particular, is quite a peculiar place; a...
Regional entrepreneurs being given opportunity to showcase their work Regional mobile entrepreneurs and developers are being given an opportunity to compete for a share of US$75,000...
App gives Ecobank the scale and capacity to achieve its target of attaining 100 million customers Pan-African banking group Ecobank has launched the Ecobank Mobile App,...
The “Buy Black” movement – a form of economic protest among African Americans – is gaining traction at home and drawing attention abroad. In a recent...
Economy grows by 1.3 percent in the first 9 months of 2016. The Barbados economy grew by 1.3 percent during the first 9 months of the...
Arik Air looks to expand international routes. Nigeria’s largest airline Arik Air plans to raise as much as US$1 billion through a private share placement next...
Airfordable – makes air ticket prices more accessible. Suppose you wanted to take a holiday, but simply could not afford the airfare, in addition to the...
Nigeria’s economy projected to begin recovery from recession in 2017 Nigeria is on track to regaining its spot as Africa’s largest economy by the end of...
Kenya ripe for mobile money revolution Kenya is poised to become Africa’s first mobile money economy, a newly-released study indicates based on the steady rise in...
New regulations encourage more competition in the telecommunications sector The Council of Ministers of the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL) has approved new regulations aimed at...
(PRNewswire) – RLJ Entertainment, the entertainment content distribution company which owns and operates Acorn TV, the premier streaming service for British mystery and drama, and UMC...
Kenya Airways – Africa’s 3rd largest carrier – canceled several flights on Sunday after some crew members failed to turn up for work, the latest blow...
The Board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the institution’s proposal to launch an ‘Africa Investment Forum (AIF)’ – a meeting place for investors...
Across Africa more and more people – from urban start-ups to hard-up villagers – are now spending, saving and planning for the future through banking services...
Devaluation not in the best interest of Barbados Barbados’ Finance Minister Chris Sinckler, last week insisted that the country would not be compelled devalue its currency...
By Elikem Nutifafa Kuenyehia Private Equity has provided capital necessary to grow businesses Over the past 15 or so years, private equity has played a key...
Vista Equity Partners takes over Infoblox Inc. Vista Equity Partners has acquired California-based tech company Infoblox Inc., in a deal valued at US$1.6 billion. The deal...
New exchanges will help entrepreneurs generate capital South Africa will next month open its first stock exchange devoted to helping small-business operators in parts of major...
African Rainbow Capital, chaired by billionaire Patrice Motsepe, agreed to buy 10 percent in the main operating unit of Johannesburg-based Alexander Forbes Group for R753.5 million...
Black Enterprise brings together top black executives and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley for its hackathon. (PRNewswire) – Black Enterprise will present its annual Black Enterprise TechConneXt...
Nigeria experiencing recession to receive support from AfDB The African Development Bank (AfDB) will continue to support Nigeria as the economy is too big to fail...
Kenya Airways is talking to “about 3 or 4” institutional investors and airlines about buying a stake to raise cash for the loss making carrier, its...
Dangote refinery on track for completion late 2017, early 2018 The construction of a 650,000 barrels per day oil refinery by the Dangote Group is on...
Clearly Innovative (CI), one of the Washington area’s leading digital and business solutions companies, built and launched the official mobile App for the Smithsonian’s’ new National...
Credit ratings agency, Standards and Poors (S&P), has lowered its long-term foreign and local currency sovereign ratings on Barbados to B- from B. The global ratings...
The Africa-America Institute (AAI) has recognized the extraordinary dedication and pioneering achievements of Aliko Dangote, founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Dangote Group at...
Debt levels unsustainable The president of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Warren Smith, has urged the Freundel Stuart administration in Barbados to deal urgently with...
Branchless lender Lidya plans to target small businesses Earlier this month, serial entrepreneur, Tunde Kehinde announced the launch of a new financial services platform called Lidya....
By Carlos Lopes Giving Wings to Africa’s Regional Integration As the world gets used to new forms of interconnectedness, Africa is not left aside. Today, more...
With the logo of his internet TV station on his black T-shirt, Inoussa Maïga energetically plucks corn stalks in northern Burkina Faso for a program on...
East African nations are playing an increasing role in driving growth in Africa as they ride a wave of cheap oil, slowing inflation and lower interest...
The Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, on Friday, said it will host a series of public education programs regarding the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME)...
Pan-African online retailer launches JumiaPay in bid to go cashless. Nigerian-based e-commerce giant – Jumia – last week, announced the launch of JumiaPay, a third party...
When Terina McKinney displays her leather bags and belts at events attended primarily by black women, they are often interested in her designs, and in her...
Antigua & Barbuda prepared to make ‘final offer’ to America A dispute over online gaming between Antigua & Barbuda and the United States has new life...
The launch of investment fund begins new chapter in Bryant’s post NBA career. Retired NBA star Kobe Bryant is moving to Wall Street, announcing the formation...
Financial institutions in Trinidad & Tobago will soon have to report specified financial account information on American citizens who have accounts in the twin-nation to U.S....
As Nigeria slips towards recession – Buhari seeks to reverse economic woes Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will seek parliamentary approval that will allow him to make...
Paga looking to become online and mobile payments giant. Growth in the mobile money market in Nigeria has taken longer than expected – given the size...
It is hoped that new oil production will jump start the economy Ghana began pumping crude from a second offshore fields on Thursday, he additional revenue...
The Barbados economy grew by 1.3 percent over the first 6 months of this year compared to virtually no growth a year ago, the country’s Finance...
U.S. President Barak Obama will participate in the second U.S.-Africa Business Forum, hosted by the U.S. Department of Commerce and Bloomberg Philanthropies, on September 21, 2016...
Buoyed by a stronger rand, South Africa overtakes Nigeria as Africa’s largest economy – in the short term. South Africa’s economy regained the position of Africa’s...
Mahama administration boosts local automaker with initial purchase of vehicles. Ghanaian carmaker, Kantanka Automobile Company’s determination to produce commercial quantities of cars received a huge boost...
The United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ELAC) in a report has forecast economic contraction for the region this year. ECLAC said...
The Nigerian economy is forecast to expand more rapidly over the next decade‚ moving it from the world’s 32nd largest economy to 21st. Nigeria will extend...
African American protest takes an economic turn as thousands move their money to African American-owned banks. In reaction to the wave of killings of unarmed black...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) have signed a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to amplify the impact of their...
(Businesswire) – Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) and The RLJ Companies, in collaboration with Roth Capital Partners (“Roth”) yesterday announced that...
Cathy Hughes, founder and chairperson of Radio One, Inc., the largest African American owned and operated broadcasting company in the nation, will be the keynote speaker...
Kenya Airways has began its staff reduction program with 80 jobs set to be affected in the first phase of a redundancy plan that will see...
Ghanian-based Groupe Nduom has US$9 million into the African American-owned Illinois Service Federal Savings and Loan Association following a series of meetings with bank leaders and...
Africa Internet Group on Monday connected its companies into Jumia’s ecosystem with a new vision, “Expand your horizons“. The new Jumia ecosystem will give access to...
(Reuters) – Aliko Dangote, plans to launch Nigeria’s first private crude oil refinery by 2019 while almost doubling his cement production on the continent by adding...
Black Entertainment Television (BET) has revealed that singer and serial entrepreneur Akon will be honored with the Global Good Award at the 2016 BET Awards ceremony...
Mobile phones and rising connectivity in Africa will give rise to a new market in mobile financial services, creating explosive opportunities for business on the continent,...
The Bahamas has been approved as a hub to trade Renminbi/Yuan – Chinese currency – in the region. According to the country’s Minister of Financial services,...
Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios, Inc., announced its acquisition of the New York-based African American-focused digital news platform TheGrio on early last week. “David Wilson and his...
Slump in oil prices send Africa’s largest economy to the brink of a recession. Nigeria’s currency has lost more than a third of its value as...
Ebony and Jet magazines, which have chronicled African American life for the past 71 years, have been sold to a private equity firm based in Austin,...
South African telecoms group MTN will take immediate steps to list shares in Nigeria as part of a deal to settle a dispute over unregistered SIM...
Yeelenpix is a company in its infancy, having only been launched in 2013, but it aims to broaden the way that Africa is presented in pictures....
The Dangote Group has acquired a sizeable stake in the Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). According to a statement from the Afreximbank, the Dangote Group completed...
Ghana plans to issue a 10-year syndicated US$2 billion bond before year end to clear legacy debt among its power utilities, a senior government official said...
Two tech start-ups with similar names, Noirbnb and Noirebnb, are launching temporary lodging services for African Americans as #AirbnbWhileBlack discrimination complaints mount. The services say they...
Kenyan innovation space the iHub is looking for a chief executive officer (CEO) as it looks to scale operations, tighten its service offerings and reach sustainability...
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has chosen Nigeria’s Mohammed Barkindo, a former head of state oil firm NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation), as...
Ethiopia has grand ambitions for its tiny auto industry, seeking to transform a handful of assemblers that bolt together imported kits into a network of factories...
With increased smartphone use, voice apps are becoming increasingly popular among African users. Nigeria’s BeepTool is a local voice app that claims to have passed the...
(BlackPRWire)- The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) will unveil the “ABFF Creators Summit” in Los Angeles, California this coming fall. Hosted by the Creative Artists Agency,...
Acting CEO of Caribbean Airlines, Tyrone Tang, has said that the regional carrier is changing its direction to be more of a customer centric company. This...
The third annual Africa Wealth Report was released earlier this month, by New World Wealth – an independent research house providing information on global wealth trends....
Africa remains one of the preferred frontiers for investment opportunities and doing business, according to a recent report released by PwC Africa. Growth and foreign direct...
Ursula Burns will be stepping down as CEO of Xerox later this year. Burns has headed the company since 2009 – she was the first black...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) was an associate sponsor of the 13th Annual Conference of the Africa Venture Capital Association (AVCA) that took place in Addis...
Traditionally, imports from Trinidad & Tobago into Jamaica have far exceeded the value of exports sent to Trinidad & Tobago from Jamaica. However, on the back...
More than two decades on from a genocide that claimed 800,000 lives, Rwanda is taking another step toward looking like the closest thing Africa has to...
The African Innovation Foundation on Monday announced the top 10 nominees for its landmark program – the Innovation Prize for Africa. Now celebrating its fifth year...
The Development Bank of Jamaica announced yesterday, that the Petroleum Company of Jamaica Limited (Petcom) a subsidiary of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica had been acquired...
Kenya is working to start a search for companies to design a crude oil export pipeline costing some US$2.1 billion and which should be completed by...
As the global recovery continues to struggle to gain its footing, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says growth in the Caribbean and Latin America has been...
The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has launched its first streaming service, with Watch OWN connecting authenticated users with content. Viewers who sign in using their subscription...
Kenya Airways said on Thursday it was experiencing unspecified disruption due to what it said was industrial action by its pilots despite an agreement reached a...
Jamaican entrepreneur Michael Lee-Chin has been named chairman of Jamaica’s Economic Growth Council. Lee-Chin, the founder and CEO of investment company Portland Holdings Inc., is a...
By Papa Madiaw Ndiaye Conversations about Africa typically focus on growth rates and the pace of emergence of the middle class. Meanwhile, African entrepreneurs have evolved...
(Global Newswire) – Carver Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank (“Carver”), last week announced that it has launched Cash Access Loans –...
A new report by the World Bank reveals that remittances to the Caribbean and Latin America saw the “most rapid” growth rate in remittances in 2015....
Don Wehby the CEO of Jamaican-based GraceKennedy Group, became the first Jamaican last week to win the Young Caribbean Professional Network’s (YCPN) award as the International...
Economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa slowed in 2015, with gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaging 3.0 percent, down from 4.5 percent in 2014 – the pace...
Senegal’s, Mariéme Jamme, one of Africa’s most influential woman tech entrepreneur launches movement to mobilize governments, businesses and investors to support young women in Science, Technology,...
David Evans, the CEO of the regional carrier – Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) – has resigned just shy of 2 years on the job. A...
Dangote Cement, Africa’s largest cement producer – a subsidiary of the Dangote Group, on Sunday began the construction of a new US$1 billion cement factory in...
The construction of the standard gauge railway – an ambitious railway project to link east Africa countries Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda – has the potential to...
The Bahamas Government has described as “disconcerting” the so-called “Panama Papers” alleging that a number of world leaders and other prominent people used a law firm...
Tech hubs and incubators in Africa are expected to number close to 300 by the end of this year – and in some surprising locations. Last...
Kenya Airways will cut 600 jobs from its workforce as part of its “Operation Pride” turnaround initiative formed in the wake of a record Ksh25.7 billion...
Abdul-Nashiru Issahuku has been named the new governor of the Bank of Ghana replacing Kofi Wampah who recently took 4 months leave pending retirement this year....
Tidal, the streaming service led by Jay Z that launched a year ago, said Tuesday it has climbed up to 3 million subscribers. Tidal, which last...
Melissa Harville-Lebron – a mother of 7 from New York has recently become the first woman and first African American to own a race team licensed...
A Nigerian business executive, Oba Otudeko, has been named the Africa Chief Executive of the Year 2016. Otudeko, who is the chairman of Honeywell Group, beat...
Equity Bank – Kenya’s biggest bank – has declared interest in buying parts of Barclays bank Africa’s operations. According to the James Mwangi, CEO of Equity...
Barbados’ vision of becoming the international financial wealth management center of choice in the western hemisphere is closer to reality. That’s the view of International Business...
Serial entrepreneur Aliko Dangote, has teamed up with 2 Nigerian states to bid for a majority stake in Peugeot Automobile Nigeria limited, a local joint venture...
African entrepreneurs Meck Khalfan and Ani Onuorah have developed a high-end portable charger that he hopes will one day help power the world. The Puku portable...
Botswana has sold a minority stake in its telecoms firm in an initial public share offer, the first sale under its privatization campaign, a government agency...
Stephanie Lampkin learned to code at age 13. By 15, she was a full-stack web developer, fluent in the languages of computer programming. She has a...
By Gerrard McDaniel Valrie Grant is the name to know in Jamaica. In late November 2015, she was named Commonwealth Women Entrepreneur of the Year in...
Jamaica will host an international animation conference and the first Afro film festival in the region this weekend. The March 12-13 event is expected to be...
Africa’s two biggest economic rivals – Nigeria and South Africa – are turning to each other as they fall on tough economic times. Nigeria has been...
Applications for the 2016 Anzisha Prize are now open, and the search is on to find 12 of Africa’s youngest, most innovative social and business entrepreneurs...
Africa Internet Group – a Nigerian e-commerce group – has secured further funding worth a total of US$245 million from investors including Goldman Sachs, South African...
Nigerian stocks rose to a 7-week high on Wednesday, driven by gains in Dangote Cement after the company proposed to increase its full-year dividend by 33...
The founder and CEO of investment holding company – Golden Palm Investments – Sangu Delle has been nominated for the Young CEO of the Year award...
(PRNewswire) – U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine awarded its 2016 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Special Recognition Award to Kristal Fears, Global Manufacturing...
Africa’s first home-grown platform for legal music downloads launched in Dakar, Senegal on Wednesday with a mission to promote African artists, pay them properly, and fight...
South Africa’s finance minister on Wednesday hiked taxes and targeted what he called wasteful and corrupt government spending in a “crisis” budget aimed at staving off...
(PRNewswire) – Barbados has passed legislation that enables the creation of incorporated cell companies. Intended to complement its segregated cell legislation, the introduction of incorporated cell...
Embattled South African wireless operator MTN, has withdrawn its lawsuit against Nigeria’s Communication’s regulator – the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) – over a US$3.9 billion fine...
Walter Taylaur, a Nigerian writer-director, needed a place to shoot his movie, Gbomo Gbomo Express, a low-budget “comedy-thriller.” In the movie, the head of a music...
Africa’s largest wireless carrier MTN, in partnership with Africa’s largest online retailer – the Nigerian-based Jumia, have announced the launch of the MTN Entrepreneurship Challenge powered...
Currently Nigerian films outsell Hollywood films in Nigeria and in most if Africa. Nollywood is a very rapidly growing film industry in Nigeria, growing within the...
ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee is departing amid low ratings, to be replaced by Channing Dungey – the first African American to head a broadcast TV network....
Senior Caribbean government officials will meet in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Thursday to explore new mechanisms for facilitating comprehensive regional approaches for the planning and...
Dangote Group, Nigeria’s largest company, is struggling with a constricted supply of foreign-exchange in the West African country and is relying on its international cement operations...