World’s Best Teacher: “I Have Seen The Promise Of Africa’s Young People”
A maths and physical science teacher from an impoverished school in Kenya’s Rift Valley, Peter Tabichi, has won the one million dollar Global Teacher Prize, becoming the first teacher from Africa to...
Chioma Onwutalobi On Creating The Most Distributed African Lifestyle Magazine
Chioma Onwutalobi was recently featured on Forbes highlighting her story as a successful entrepreneur. This feature highlights the journey of a 24 year old entrepreneur seeking to change the narrative associated with...
How Peter Tabichi is Lifting His Students Out of Poverty With Science
Maths and physical science teacher Peter Tabichi’s love for science is changing the lives of Keriko’s 480 students for the better. His dedication and passionate belief in his students’ talent has embolden the poorly-resourced learners to take on Kenya’s best schools in national science competitions.
Dorothy Masuku: Africa Has Lost a Singer, Composer and a Hero Of The Struggle
Dorothy Masuku (Masuka was her stage name) has died at the age of 83. She was an African musician of note, but also much more.I was once shown the script for a biopic purporting...
Remembering Bisi Silva, A Bold Curator Of Contemporary African Art
Bisi Silva, an adventurous curator who, with her own money, founded a nonprofit art gallery and education center in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, that has nurtured the growth and recognition of contemporary African artists,...
Get To Know: Acha Leke, McKinsey Africa
Meet Acha Leke, senior partner and chairman of McKinsey’s Africa office, and coauthor of Africa’s Business Revolution: How to Succeed in the World’s Next Big Growth Market. "Companies in Africa actually tend to grow faster and are more profitable than their peers around the world, because once you get the business model right, it’s actually more difficult for folks to come in and try to replicate it."
Do Well By Doing Good: Making Business A Full Partner In Africa’s Transformation
Graça Machel, an international human-rights and development advocate, is the founder and patron of New Faces New Voices, a pan-African network that focuses on expanding the role and influence of women in the financial sector.
Build Resilience For The Long Term: Forging Africa’s Industrial Revolution
Aliko Dangote has built one of Africa’s largest industrial firms from humble origins as a trading company started with a small loan from his uncle in 1978. Today, the Nigeria-based Dangote Group has annual revenues exceeding $4 billion.
Unleash Africa’s Talent: Imagining New Approaches To Shape The Skills Of The Future
Fred Swaniker is the founder of several innovative educational and leadership institutions, including the African Leadership University (ALU), whose campuses in Rwanda and Mauritius are based on a new model of higher education.
Innovate Your Business Model: Fulfilling A Societal Need For Financial Inclusion
James Mwangi, CEO of Kenya-based Equity Bank, built the company with one core purpose in mind: to solve the social problem of lack of access to financial services.
Map Your Strategy: Building a Pan-African Insurance Company
Nadia Fettah, CEO of Morocco-based Saham Finances, has overseen the company’s expansion from a small local firm into a leading African insurance company operating in 23 countries across the continent.
3 Imperatives For Winning In Africa
An interview with Coca-Cola’s former president of Africa.
Alexander Cummings discusses the continent’s potential and ways companies can establish a presence there by partnering for development and building local relevance.
Coca-Cola has had a presence in...
