More organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa record advancing gender parity in...
According to Mercer’s When Women Thrive 2020, Sub-Saharan Africa Report, key areas such as advancing and retaining female employees have shown some progress over the past few years. The report also...
View ArticleThe first deal under AfCFTA gets under way as negotiators adapt to new...
The African Union (AU) announced in August that negotiations around the first commercial trade deal under the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) would be finalised by January 2021....
View ArticleAfCFTA is Now Operational – What to Expect in the First Few Months
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is one of the largest trading blocs in the world with the majority of African countries now operating under its preferential trade framework. Trading...
View ArticleCrises can stimulate innovation, but support is needed to help it take flight
At the time of the 2017/2018 Cape Town water crisis, I was attending the African Leadership Academy (ALA). Shocked that a global city was going through water stress and that it was facing the genuine...
View ArticleImagine the possibility of a Crypto powered Africa
A year of uncertainty combined with a lack of opportunity and adequate effort by their various governments, led to an uptick in cryptocurrency adoption by Africa’s youth. You think it is hard to get...
View ArticleWe need to build a different Africa
Discussing the impact of COVID-19 on Africa, the 2021 Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW) heard that Africa has demonstrated strong and coordinated leadership in response to the pandemic, and the...
View ArticleNew Food Pop-up Shows Africa’s Cuisine is more than Jollof Wars
The ‘Reconquista’ is arguably the longest war in history, but the enduring and gladly ‘no violence’, jollof wars amongst west African countries, is one that has tarried so long. ‘Jollof is life’, as...
View ArticleWhat’s the Buzz about this Delicious new Food Pop-up coming to Lagos
Lagos is not just the life of the party. Lagos is the party! The lights never go out in this city that never sleeps, and the dawn of a new day always comes with a thrill. You know you are in for a...
View ArticleCrypto Investors In African Countries Have “Good Financial Habits”, says Luno
Luno, the leading global cryptocurrency company, has today revealed in a new online global survey that only 3% of cryptocurrency investors in the African countries surveyed (Nigeria, Kenya and South...
View ArticleAfrica: Tax implications of digital transformation in the consumer goods and...
The pandemic-fuelled growth of the digital economy and unabated demand for online retail products across Africa have led to extensive disruption in the Consumer Goods and Retail Sector (CG&R)...
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