The founder of some of Nigeria’s best-known startups on the mistakes and the millions that made him click in the technology business. Sometimes, the simplest business ideas can come from strange places, or even strangers. In his first year studying law at Waterloo University in Canada, Iyino...
Flexible working is growing rapidly, with IWG’s continued expansion across its operating brands, seeing another 156 new locations opening in 34 countries around the globe The company has established 156 locations across 34 countries across its operating brands, since the turn of the year, continu...
Professor Sally Smith, Dean of School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, was in South Africa to share how tech can revolutionize education and what Africa can learn. With the Fourth Industrial Revolution gaining speed, the nature of work and economic activity is set to dramatically cha...
More entrepreneurs are committing to closing the skills gap in Africa’s future job market. In 2015, an image of a young man, Tankiso Motaung, at a street corner in the middle of Sandton, Johannesburg, holding up a placard, went viral. On the sign were the words, “I have a BTech in electrical ...
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and head of the African Union speaks to CNBC Africa’s Chris Bishop on continental trade, business and China’s influence. Excerpts of the interview. Q. Philosophers and poets have been talking about a united Africa for decades. It seems on the business front,...
Chinese billionaire and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma came calling to Rwanda to sign a deal to boost its digital economy. When a Chinese billionaire comes calling, for two consecutive years, it means serious business. On Jack Ma’s November trip to Rwanda, he announced a first-of-its- kind-in-Af...
Climate change is going to have huge consequences all over the world, especially in Africa. Harvests will be affected, threatening agricultural outputs. This could hurt farmers and lead to greater food insecurity. But there hasn’t been much discussion about what effects climate change will have...
Two of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, HSBC and UBS, have recently closed their local representative offices in Nigeria. There’s also trouble brewing elsewhere in Nigeria’s business world that’s prompted fears about the climate for foreign direct invest...
The first-ever Africa Investment Forum was a resounding success with some fascinating math: 49 projects worth $38.7 billion over three days, all for the continent. On a breezy Wednesday morning in November in Johannesburg, there is a feverish bustle at the Sandton Convention Centre, one of South ...
Democracy and social progress die without science and fact-based knowledge. Science and facts are the foundational basis for rational and logical disputation and the possibility of reaching some truths. Fake news, on the other hand, is a calculated assault on democratic freedoms. The power of ...
