Marketing to sub-Saharan Africa’s middle class: 13 ground rules
Africa's middle class presents a sizeable opportunity for fast-moving consumer goods companies.
Kenyan entrepreneur providing a digital alternative to textbooks
Tonee Ndungu, the founder of Kytabu, discusses his business journey.
Profit-making idea: Potential for construction companies along Mozambique’s Nacala corridor
New logistics corridor offers business opportunities.
PARTNER CONTENT: African Development Prize
King Baudouin Foundation awards 2016-17 African Development Prize to three young, African tech-entrepreneurs
Each tech platform enables communities to access and share information in fundamental areas, like education (Kytabu), legal rights (BarefootLaw) and agriculture (Farmerline).
Ranked: African cities with the best quality of life
Five African cities managed to remain in the top 100 of Mercer’s 19th annual Quality of Living survey.
PARTNER CONTENT: RMB
Convertible bonds provide the platinum solution for issuers and investors
Both RBPlat’s and Implats’ convertible bond offerings enabled RMB’s clients to optimise their cost of funding and raise sizable amounts of funding in the capital markets by tapping a more diversified, deeper pool of liquidity.
Interview: Using technology to boost the incomes of West African farmers
Farmerline is a Ghanaian software company that provides small-scale farmers with information such as farming tips, market prices and weather reports.
Fintech: Africa’s payments and remittances space becoming crowded
Talking fintech trends with Tom Jackson, founder of Disrupt Africa.
Business Focus
Demonstration farms can help revolutionise African agriculture
27 June, 2017
Demonstration farms could help solve some of Africa’s most persistent challenges including degraded soils or the low adoption of irrigation technologies.
Fintech waiting game is on as players line up to capture Africa’s unbanked market
26 June, 2017
The advent of fintech has blown Africa’s unbanked market wide open but no one knows yet who the big winners will be.
Marketing to sub-Saharan Africa’s middle class: 13 ground rules
20 June, 2017
Africa's middle class presents a sizeable opportunity for fast-moving consumer goods companies.
Foreign investment
Germany touts Africa investment as signature issue
27 June, 2017
Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to invest some US$335m to attract foreign investors to Africa.
What are the new trends driving private infrastructure investment in emerging markets?
20 June, 2017
Over US$4.5tn a year will be spent on infrastructure between now and 2020.
Serving sustainable jobs in the hospitality industry
14 June, 2017
The hospitality sector and its role in the value-chain is not merely a necessary accompaniment to economic growth or an afterthought to infrastructure development.
Africa’s growing leverage in business and trade relations
8 June, 2017
However, it must also focus on developing coherent collective strategies to maximise the potential gains available.
Entrepreneur watch
BarefootLaw: Uganda’s first online legal service
27 June, 2017
We speak to managing director Gerald Abila about attracting funding, dealing with risks and his biggest mistake so far.
Interview: Using technology to boost the incomes of West African farmers
23 June, 2017
Farmerline is a Ghanaian software company that provides small-scale farmers with information such as farming tips, market prices and weather reports.
Kenyan entrepreneur providing a digital alternative to textbooks
21 June, 2017
Tonee Ndungu, the founder of Kytabu, discusses his business journey.
10 African innovators with game-changing ideas
19 June, 2017
Innovators from the healthcare, engineering, energy and communications sectors.
Profit-making idea
Profit-making idea: Potential for construction companies along Mozambique’s Nacala corridor
27 June, 2017
New logistics corridor offers business opportunities.
Profit-making idea: Keep an eye on Senegal’s emerging oil and gas industry
13 June, 2017
An oil and gas boom would generate demand for products and services that support the hydrocarbons industry.
Profit-making idea: What do dried egg yolk, sorbitol and sodium sulphate have in common?
11 April, 2017
Import substitution opportunities identified at Africa CEO Forum.
Profit-making idea: Battery recycling – a spin-off from the small-scale solar boom
27 March, 2017
Small-scale off-grid solar energy is a booming new industry.
Meet the Boss
Meet the Boss: Jaco Lotz, International Business Development Executive, ADvTECH
29 May, 2017
'I’ve been frequently exposed to new challenges through changes in my career path.'
Meet the Boss: Nick Langford, Country Head Kenya, Rendeavour
23 May, 2017
'No worthwhile business is ever done after 10:00 in the evening,' says property development boss.
Meet the Boss: Paul Kavuma, CEO, Catalyst Principal Partners
15 May, 2017
'It is quite difficult in leadership to listen and to really hear what other people are saying,' says private equity boss.
Meet the Boss: Kevin Lennett, managing director, The Crazy Store
7 May, 2017
Kevin Lennett answers our questions.
FOCUS ON CENTRAL AFRICA
How German firms can tap into Africa’s diversification drive
3 February, 2017
'Where I do see significant opportunities is in the midstream and downstream petroleum industry.'Understanding Cameroon’s untapped business opportunities
16 January, 2017
NJ Ayuk, CEO of Centurion Law Group, shares where he sees opportunities in Cameroon.
On-the-ground realities in central Africa different to investors’ perceptions
13 December, 2016
Doing business in French-speaking central Africa is often different to what prospective investors assume, according to private equity boss.
Start-up snapshot: The Cameroonian company using fish to farm crops – and vice versa
30 November, 2016
Save Our Agriculture is a start-up that focuses on producing aquaponics kits.
Private Equity
Interview: Searching for Africa’s alternative investment opportunities
30 May, 2017
We speak to Paul Boynton, the CEO of Old Mutual Alternative Investments.
Why this private equity firm is betting on a Kenyan biscuit manufacturer
16 May, 2017
Opportunities in the biscuit business in Kenya and beyond.Meet the Boss: Paul Kavuma, CEO, Catalyst Principal Partners
15 May, 2017
'It is quite difficult in leadership to listen and to really hear what other people are saying,' says private equity boss.
Start-ups in Africa are more likely to grow from client revenue than investment
9 May, 2017
Business leaders discuss what it takes to develop African 'unicorns' (start-ups with a valuation of over $1bn).
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28 June, 2017
Online retail trends in Africa's most populous country.
Nigeria 19th most attractive investment destination in Africa
27 June, 2017
The short- to medium-term focus of the Nigerian Government is to reduce imports and address primary sector blockages.
Ranked: African cities with the best quality of life
27 June, 2017
Five African cities managed to remain in the top 100 of Mercer’s 19th annual Quality of Living survey.
Germany touts Africa investment as signature issue
27 June, 2017
Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to invest some US$335m to attract foreign investors to Africa.Demonstration farms can help revolutionise African agriculture
27 June, 2017
Demonstration farms could help solve some of Africa’s most persistent challenges including degraded soils or the low adoption of irrigation technologies.
