The continent's investment gap is real - but capital is not what is missing.
By John Dale For decades, Africa’s agricultural challenges have provided fodder for countless panel discussions, media interviews, and development conferences. The narrative is familiar: inadequate infrastructure,...
By Dishant Shah While banks remain flush with capital, millions of African entrepreneurs access credit through trust-based systems that formal institutions fail to recognize. Across Africa,...
By Lailla Mutajogera This past weekend in Kigali, something far more significant than a routine business meeting unfolded. President Paul Kagame convened with Jack Ma, founder...
By Des H Rikhotso For too long, many African entrepreneurs have viewed their domestic markets as the ceiling – not the launchpad – for growth. While...
By Ajay Wasserman Africa is home to the world’s youngest population – a dynamic, fast-growing demographic that represents both a historic opportunity and a pressing challenge....
By Ajay Wasserman In the first half of 2025, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) shattered records – signing over US$124 billion in new investments across...
By Farhia Noor In 2055, I didn’t dream of Africa’s future – I stepped into it. What I saw was not the continent of yesterday’s headlines...
By Dishant Shah Africa’s billionaires are more than just symbols of wealth – they are reflections of the continent’s economic structure, its contradictions, and its untapped...
By Dishant Shah From the bustling streets of Nairobi to the electrifying beats of Lagos’s music festivals, and the vibrant marketplaces of Accra, Africa pulses with...
By Ajay Wasserman While global investors funnel billions into Asia and Latin America, one continent remains conspicuously overlooked – despite housing 17 percent of the world’s...
By Ajay Wasserman It’s time to shift your gaze. South. Way south. Africa isn’t on the rise – Africa has arrived. From Cape Town to Cairo,...
By Dishant Shah Africa is often portrayed through a narrow lens in the global media – focused on poverty, conflict, and instability. But this is far...
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has signed a US$6 million partnership with the UAE’s Office of Development Affairs and the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation...
Bloomberg | African startups raised a record US$5.3 billion last year, though that may be the high-water mark as a deepening slump in the technology industry...
The Tony Elumelu Foundation has announced the second annual round of the US$100 million Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme for emerging African entrepreneurs. In 2015, the Tony...
As part of Tony Elumelu’s US$100 million commitment to empowering African entrepreneurs, 1,000 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs, representing 51 African countries from the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program...
By Ritesh Anand Over the last decade, private equity has significantly grown in sub-Saharan Africa from less than US$1 billion in 2009 to over US$4 billion...
Nigerian billionaire investor and philanthropist Tony Elumelu, early this month committed US$100 million to create 10,000 entrepreneurs across Africa over the next 10 years. Elumelu made...
Countries in Africa are not meeting the demands required to make business environment conducive for female entrepreneurs, Dell yesterday stated, as results of the second-annual Dell...
It is a painfully First World problem: Splitting dinner with friends, we do the dance of the seven credit cards. No one, it seems, carries cash anymore,...
Rising from the depths of the global financial crisis, Africa’s richest are faring well. Among them is a breed of “billionaire philanthropist”: men and women who...
All across the Africa, innovators and entrepreneurs are coming up against a persistent roadblock: lack of access to capital funding. But a new investment platform aims...
An African entrepreneur and investor community known as the Venture Capital for Africa has announced the launch of a new initiative for promising African entrepreneurs to...
Founder network group – VC4Africa, has launched a peer-to-peer online platform where African entrepreneurs can link up with prospective global business experts. The platform known as...
A start-up company from Ghana, SliceBiz, a crowdsourcing investment platform providing alternative funding for start-ups, has been selected as one of the winners of this year’s...
Dropifi founders.,Kamil Nabong (l), David Osei (c) and Effah Philips Mensah (r). PHOTO/Dropifi Dropifi, a startup tech company in Ghana has taken the top spot in...
Nigerian teenagers, Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola and Faleke Oluwatoyin with their urine powered generator. PHOTO/BBC In a breakthrough, four teenage schoolgirls in Nigeria have invented a...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) — The Pan African Entrepreneurs Conference (PAEC) takes place November 15-18, 2012, in Houston, TX at the Four Seasons Hotel. PAEC is an arena for...
A graphic collection of Apps built in Africa. IMAGE/File Africans are making a bid to turn the continent of Africa into the new home of mobile...
Funke Opeke CEO of Main One Cable. PHOTO/File The CEO of the Main One Cable company, Ms. Funke Opeke has won the 2012 CNBC All Africa...
Amini Kajunju, President and CEO Africa-America Institute. PHOTO/Dani Wang/The Dartmouth (PR Newswire) – The Africa-America Institute (AAI), today announced the appointment of Amini Kajunju to the...
Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town...
Malmsey Rangaka – co-founder and CEO of M’hudi Wines Malmsey Rangaka is co-founder and CEO of M’hudi Wines, a family wine farm located in Stellenbosch, South...
Cyril Ramaphosa Leading international paper and packaging group Mondi Group, co-owned by South African business man Cyril Ramaphosa, has signed an agreement with machinery supplier Duropack...
In 2010, the African Leadership Academy and The MasterCard Foundation announced the Anzisha Prize – a pan-African award that scouts and celebrates African entrepreneurs between the...
Patrice Motsepe, founder and chairman of African Rainbow Mineral Ltd. PHOTO/Simon Dawson/Getty Images South African mining billionaire Patrice Motsepe has indicated interest in British platinum producer...
Joseph Arumemi-Ikhide – founder and Chairman of Arik Air Joseph Arumemi-Ikhide is the founder and Chairman of West Africa’s largest airline, Arik Air – a company...
Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year 2011, Ludwick Marishane Last year, the then 21year-old Ludwick Marishane of Cape Town, South Africa was named the 2011 Global...
Kwabena Smith – Founder and Executive Chairman Orun Energy. PHOTO/Orun Energy Nigeria’s Kwabena Smith is the founder and executive chairman of Orun Energy – a global...
Muhammed Jah, founder and CEO QuantumNet Group. PHOTO/BBC The Gambia’s Muhammed Jah clearly remembers the day, in the late 1990s, when a friend told him that...
Ory Okolloh, activist, lawyer, blogger, and co-founder of Ushahidi.com. PHOTO/File One of the many terms Silicon Valley has bequeathed to the business world is “serial entrepreneur”,...
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has honored five African innovators in its roll of Social Entrepreneurs of the Year 2012. Klaus Schwab, founder and executive Chairman...
Foreign investments to African markets are expected to go up this year as the US finalizes plans to fund entrepreneurs. The US hopes to use the...
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote.PHOTO/File Nigerian manufacturing group Dangote has opened a US$ 1 billion cement plant near the economic capital Lagos, one of the largest investments...
Sam Jonah, Executive chairperson of Jonah Capital The Africanization of executives has started, English-speaking groups continue in their dominance, as more and more entrepreneurs from the...
The Way-C Tablet. PHOTO/VMK Africa has its first tablet to rival the iPad and similar western inventions, which went on sale in the Republic of Congo,...
Herman Chinery-Hesse. PHOTO/madamenoire.com Known by many as Africa’s “father of technology,” software pioneer Herman Chinery-Hesse has been spawning innovations for two decades, helping to break down...
Divine Ndhlukula, Founder and CEO of SECURICO proudly holds up the Africa Awards 2011 trophy Divine Ndhlukula, a Zimbabwean national, is the founder and Managing Director...
Senegalese entrepreneur Magatte Wade is the creator of multi-million dollar U.S. company Adina World Beat Beverages, which makes drinks based on traditional recipes from around the...
Kwaku Kyei. PHOTO/Courtesy Modern Ghana A Ghanaian social entrepreneur Kwaku Kyei has been selected as a winner of the of 2011 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)...
Stuck with a bleak future, Antoinette Furaha invested the only 2,200 Uganda shillings (US$ 0.92) she had. She has never looked back. Antoinette Furaha is the...
Haile Gebrselassie crossing the finish line at the Berlin Marathon in Sept. 2008.PHOTO/Wolfgang Kumm/European Pressphoto Agency Haile Gebrselassie sets the pace on the track and in...
When Joel Mwale (pictured), was hospitalized with dysentery, his doctors advised him to focus his energies on making a full recovery. The Kenyan student had caught...
Fred Swaniker is a Ghanaian entrepreneur who hopes to instill a new generation with the skills to navigate Africa towards prosperity in future years. The African...
