In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone!

An ensemble of local inventors and craftsmen show their creative wares and problem-solving skills in Nairobi. Find out why this kind of event is important to the continent

An environmental charity has urged European Union countries to drop biofuel targets claiming that they are driving damaging “land grabs” in Africa. UK newspaper The Guardian said on Monday that a new report published by Friends of the Earth (FoE) claims that more than five million hectares of land across Africa has been sold to [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama greeted 115 young leaders from 46 sub-Saharan African nations on Tuesday, in the first Young African Leaders Forum at the White House. The president addressed the questions and concerns of young people from across the continent.
President Obama spent an hour talking with some of the young leaders of [...]

Strong prospects await global companies that invest in the continent’s consumer, agricultural, natural-resource, and infrastructure sectors. These sectors combined could be worth $2.6 trillion in annual revenues by 2020.

Despite the fact that Africa is often left out in competitions especially those that do not touch on athletics or football, we have some countries that can carry our flag and make us proud.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Friday that polio has been eradicated again in the Horn of Africa. No cases of wild poliovirus have been reported in Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda for more than one year now, according to UNICEF. The agency said the success was thanks to a series of multi-country [...]

asil Davidson, who has died aged 95, was a radical journalist in the great anti-imperial tradition, and became a distinguished historian of pre-colonial Africa. He championed liberation movements in colonial Africa and became a respected authority on the continent’s cultural history.
In 1984 Davidson embarked on a new career in television, making Africa, an eight-part history [...]

Jacana aims to expand the provision of growth capital funding and resources to small and medium-sized growth businesses throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

Two staff members from Zimbabwe’s first independent daily newspaper in seven years, were arrested on Friday when the paper hit the streets for the first time. The NewsDay staff members and two distribution agents, were picked up by police while distributing Friday’s special free edition of the paper. Scores of excited people had mobbed the [...]