She came to Nigeria 28 years ago to find her debtor and ended up staying in Nigeria to build one of the biggest bakery and confectionery business in Nigeria.
Her name is Pamela Wu, the Chief Executive Officer of Big Treats Plc, Nigeria. If you have been to Big Treat, you will agree [...]

Since 9/11 the whole world has been staring at the war on terror, completely ignoring the small battles which have been much more successful then the most technologically advanced military and paramilitary campaigns.
In a world in which more and more people are getting what they want by the power of gun, West Africa is [...]

“For every woman we reached, the impact was six folds because a typical Congolese family comprises of six children.”

Fast Company has a six-part series on China’s incursion into Africa. Excerpt:
While America is preoccupied with the war in Iraq (cost: half a trillion dollars and counting), and while think-tank economists continue to spit out papers debating whether vital resources are running out at all, China’s leadership isn’t taking any chances. In just a [...]

Africa is emerging as a new landscape that no-one could have predicted a decade ago: Telephony has assumed power politics dimensions.

Paul Kagame talks about his vision for Rwanda and the role of small businesses and entrepreneurship in national development, and his personal path from military strategist to become Africa’s leading statesman.

Foliofn Investments, an American firm has just introduced the first-ever screening tool to let investors build portfolios free of companies that support and profit from the genocide in Sudan.
Foliofn Investments launched in May of this year help customers automatically screen out companies on the Genocide Intervention Network’s “highest offenders” list of firms that operate [...]