Banks Eye Africa’s Millionaire Boom
The number of millionaires in Africa continues to grow, prompting a race among banks to capture the continent’s emerging demand wealth management and private...
Nelson Mandela’s Leadership Legacy
In PricewaterhouseCoopers’ global survey of 1,330 chief executive officers in 68 countries late last year, Nelson Mandela ranked fourth after Winston Churchill, Steve Jobs...
The Cloudy State of Microfinance in Africa
For years, microfinance has been the buzzword in developing countries. Lending small amounts of money to local entrepreneurs and small businesses that lack access...
Educators, Innovators To Meet in Nigeria for AAI’s “State of Education in Africa” Conference
African and U.S. educators and education innovators will gather in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sept. 2 for the Africa-America Institute’s Second Annual State of Education...
South Africa Fires Back On AGOA Threat
South Africa responded swiftly to President Barack Obama’s threat this week to partially revoke market access benefits for South Africa under the Africa Growth...
Vivienne Yeda on the EADB and Small Businesses
The complaint is all too common: In Africa, well performing small and medium-size businesses cannot obtain credit from commercial lenders in order to expand...
Hannover Fair: Meet Industrial Technology Partners Face to Face
African companies wishing to meet U.S. suppliers and business partners in the industrial technology sector without traveling to the United States can do so...
CEO of West Africa’s Regional Stock Exchange on Brexit
In a meeting with reporters during his visit to the United States in May, Edoh Kossi Amenounve, CEO of the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange and MSCI Will Develop Joint Indexes
The Nigerian Stock Exchange, Africa’s largest by volume traded, and MSCI Inc., a provider of investment decision support tools to asset managers, banks, hedge...
AU Pushes Forward With African Passport Plan
The African Union is at last on its way to introducing an African passport to facilitate the movement of people and goods across the...