Jacob Zuma ousted Mbeki to assume his party’s leadership position at a time when the world was beginning to see the cracks in the party once known as the Peoples party. African National Congress (ANC) is the very party that struggled and…
Uhuru is a Kenyan/Swahili word that means freedom.
Facts about Ida
• Wife of Kenyan PM
• Worked as a teacher for 20 years
• First woman Managing Director equivalent to CEO of a major corporation; East Africa Spectre in 2003
• Mentored many successful women influencing…
In the law of unintended consequences Zuma’s missteps continues to strengthen Malema, Malema rises to the occasion to fine tune his message to the South African disenfranchised. The Police force opened fire on striking miners at Lonmin mine in Marikana, something reminiscent…
Senegalese Marieme Jamme vision is in IT investment across African continent
CEO of Spot One Global Solutions, assists foreign companies in entering African markets
Mariéme worked as an asset manager at Citibank, JP Morgan and Lloyds TSB and in various software companies…
Odetta Ntezicimpa came to New Zealand in 1999 as a refugee from Burundi. At that time the country was far from being the melting pot as it is becoming. The first barrier that she encountered was a language barrier as she spoke…
Piracy was always a problems for Nollywood filmmakers. There were many 'hustlers' in the diaspora who made their living off pirating movie and keeping all the profits. The business problem that most filmmakers had was distribution and since their core competency is…
Abebe Bikila the first Sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal at the Olympics in 1960 completing the marathon in 2:15:16.2. He went on to win the 1964 Tokyo Olympics as well.
It was Rome 1960; the venue of the Olympics and Italy…
Wealth building in African society has not always been a popular subject particularly for present Africans. Where I come from some fathers assume that if they give their children their inheritance early their children may kill them. This creates a hostile environment…
In the past American foreign policy largely ignored Africa as a place to be contained and more of a liability. Western powers in general were more focused on the Cold War and containing Soviet Union this of course is the official story.…
The African Union which declared the decade 2010-2020 the decade of the woman produced a publication in October 2010 "Walking the Talk" and Gender Equality. Now that we have for the first time a Woman as Chair at the African Union there…