Legatum, a private international investment group and Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm, today announced that SECURICO has won the US $100,000 grand prize of the 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship ( www.AfricaAwards.com ). Based in Harare, Zimbabwe, SECURICO provides guarding services…
As the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) continues there is a need to raise awareness about some issues affecting Agriculture in Southern Africa. Climate change affects agricultural production but one must not discount the effect of western policies funded…
Agricultural Biodiversity: African alternatives to a ‘green revolution’ Andrew Mushita and Carol Thompson Abstract Although the global agricultural crises affect the African continent most adversely, African farmers and scientists offer successful alternatives to industrial monoculture. Andrew Mushita and Carol Thompson argue that…
The African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa is training students to become the future leaders of the continent. The founder, Fred Swaniker, was born in Ghana but throughout his life, lived in different countries including, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Gambia and South Africa.…
Growing up in Southern Africa in the 80s and 90s, movies were synonymous with Hollywood only. In most cases when we saw movies made in Europe or Australia they always seemed to lack the luster and high budget fame of Hollywood. We…
It was common practice in the past that when a young man wanted to marry a young woman he went to her people with an income generating tool that suited that Agrarian society. It was…
Forbes has just announced its list of the wealthiest Africans and some come as no surprise. It is amazing that wealth continues to grow faster than ever before on the so called "dark continent" while Europe languishes in debt. Forbes' list features…
It’s a new day in the world. If you had told people in the mid 70s and early 1990s that Africa’s economy would be growing and European countries crumbling, who would have believed you? We grew up with the myths that when…
Since today is Sunday it is only befitting to highlight an African who has a Global Voice in the religious arena. Ukrainian Pastor Sunday Adelaja is believed to head the largest church in Europe based in Kiev. Sunday Adelaja was born in the…
Tell me this: which part of the world has seen its number of democracies increase nearly eight-fold in just two decades? Eastern Europe? No, it’s Africa. Which continent has six of the ten fastest growing economies in the world? Asia? No, it’s Africa. Which country is predicted by some to have the highest average GDP growth in the world over the next 40 years?...
Today there are unprecedented opportunities to trade and grow, raise living standards and lift billions from poverty. So I urge you: seize these opportunities, grab them, shape them.”