Low commodity prices impeding growth Sub-Saharan Africa – Report
Economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa slowed in 2015, with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth averaging 3.0 percent, down from 4.5 ...
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Nigeria’s shifting telecoms landscape
A new mobile operator, ntel, commenced 4G LTE services in Lagos and Abuja in early April, increasing competition in the ...
Megacities, not nations, are the world’s dominant, enduring social structures
Cities are mankind’s most enduring and stable mode of social organization, outlasting all empires and nations over which they have ...
Business is booming in Africa – these 5 charts show how
Tumbling commodity prices and falling Chinese demand have hit African economies hard. But for all the bad news, the continent’s ...
Eight trends shaping the retail and consumer sector in sub-Saharan Africa
PwC recently published a report highlighting the prospects in the retail and consumer goods sector in ten sub-Saharan countries – ...
Africa’s great opportunity for reform
Fixing Africa’s failing education systems should be seen as a top economic policy priority First the bad news. After fifteen ...
Ghana’s startup hub pioneer is going pan-African with a $50 million fund
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has built one of Africa’s best known startup ecosystems in Accra, Ghana over the ...
Turn your business into a technology company (Part 7) -Maybe it was “esusu,” “stokvel,” and “mukando” that got me into business after all!
In my last post I talked about a traditional savings scheme practiced across Africa. It’s easily the largest savings bank ...
Street Hawking – A ticking time bomb
Many scholars have written seminal articles on the growing phenomenon of street hawking in major cities of the country. As ...
Assessing character during interviews
You can assess character with behaviour scenario questions where you create a scenario and ask the candidate to explain how ...