Zakhe Khuzwayo, CFO, InnoVent. South Africa’s education crisis is no longer simply about access to universities or bursaries. Thousands of young people receive financial support every year, yet many still fall through the cracks before graduation or struggle to enter the job market afterwards. The real challenge is not only funding education; it’s about creating…
Africa is not short of remarkable stories. It is short of Africans telling them. That belief is driving entrepreneur Julius Kyazze beyond music, entertainment and business into what he sees as one of the continent’s next great creative frontiers: African storytelling. The Swangz Avenue co-founder says Africa has spent decades consuming stories produced elsewhere while…
A Senegalese village chief holds up the fonio grain. Photo by Richard Nyberg Fonio – a gluten-free grain with many nutritional benefits – has been cultivated as a subsistence crop in West Africa for thousands of years. It is drought-resistant, can grow without the support of fertiliser and restores organic matter in fallow soil. Despite…
For many years, Nigeria has relied heavily on crude oil exports while importing many of the finished products it consumes, leaving much of the value creation, jobs and industrial opportunities to other countries. But as global supply chains are being reshaped by geopolitical tensions, the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and…
SEATTLE — The U.S. men’s soccer team entered the World Cup’s round of 16 looking as though it had an edge on the rest of the soccer world. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. It ended Monday with another reminder it still is playing catch-up against…
BlackBerry didn’t lose because it ignored ordinary customers. It lost while it was winning them over. Its cheap prepaid data plan, launched by Vodacom in December 2008, opened BlackBerry to millions of South Africans who couldn’t afford a monthly contract. Then Apple built a general-purpose phone on infrastructure that already existed, with an ecosystem BlackBerry…
Youssef Elgonaid Interview with Youssef ElgonaidCO-FOUNDER and CEO, AFRICAN RAIL COMPANY For decades, South Africa’s freight rail network has been tightly controlled by the state. Youssef Elgonaid, CEO of African Rail Company (ARC), describes the recent move to grant private operators wider access to the system as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity”. Founded in 2013, ARC recently…
Youssef Elgonaid Interview with Youssef ElgonaidCO-FOUNDER and CEO, AFRICAN RAIL COMPANY For decades, South Africa’s freight rail network has been tightly controlled by the state. Youssef Elgonaid, CEO of African Rail Company (ARC), describes the recent move to grant private operators wider access to the system as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity”. Founded in 2013, ARC recently…
In rural Ethiopia, smallholder farmer Ayelech Tarekegn Mekebo transformed a single local cow into a productive dairy enterprise with support from the World Bank-financed Livestock and Fisheries Sector Development Project. Through improved breeding, cooperative membership, and union-level processing, she now earns steady income and dividends. Her journey shows how targeted investments unlock rural jobs and…
Nvidia has signalled a massive escalation in its market expectations, projecting that the revenue opportunity for its AI hardware could reach at least $1 trillion through 2027. This ambitious forecast, delivered by CEO Jensen Huang at the annual GTC developer conference in San Jose, highlights a strategic shift toward “inference computing”, the process of running…
