Over ten years, celebrities have lined up next to school children, businesspeople have pulled up in casual clothes next to ...

Joël Sikam is the founder and CEO of Fisco Industries, a manufacturer of home and personal cleaning products in Cameroon.

Your return sparked a bold idea: growing coffee in Kinshasa, a region dismissed as nonviable. What made you believe it was ...

Jaco Maritz, editor-in-chief of How we made it in Africa, recently visited the Jus Délice pineapple juice factory in Togo, his first trip to the small West African country. He shares his experience ...

Freedom of Movement is a South African clothing and accessories brand co-founded by the Boezaart brothers. With South African rugby captain Siya Kolisi as a minority shareholder, the company has ...

Smart cities leverage on technology and use the large amount of data their citizens generate every second to optimise resources, to connect people and to improve business and trading. A smart city ...

Millions of small, independent shops are the cornerstones of African commerce. Now they’re diversifying, digitising, and partnering with modern retailers to reach the next level. Yet traditional ...

Botswana has the potential to establish itself as a regional hub for medical tourism, says Dr Matlhogonolo Mongwa-Mouwane, founder of Gaborone-based Kalafhi Medical Center. “People are looking for a ...

It has been a year since the kick-off of the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa. Claude Harding looks at the economic impact of the event and what it meant for business on the continent. From a ...

Recent analysis by McKinsey & Company suggests that as much as 35% of the fleet in sub-Saharan Africa’s five largest vehicle markets (excluding South Africa) will be electric by 2040. Electric ...

Teff, a tiny grass seed native to Ethiopia, ranks among the world’s most ancient cultivated crops, having been domesticated between 6,000 and 4,000 BC. For thousands of years, Ethiopians have used ...

With large swathes of arable land and a huge food import bill, Africa’s agriculture and food industry holds immense potential. However, identifying the correct opportunities and devising a winning ...