Business
Forbes Africa
STAYING FLEXIBLE
The 19-year-old South African gymnast was all set for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in July, for which she had qualified. With the event’s postponement, her goal hasn’t changed, she says, only the timeline has.
3 min |
June - July 2020
Forbes Africa
All Home And No Play
Not since World War II has the global sports industry faced such a crippling crisis, which is likely to cost billions of dollars in lost revenue and could yet see the permanent extinction of some teams and competitions.
5 min |
June - July 2020
Forbes Africa
Coronavirus - Testing Times
For Africa’s two biggest economies already suffering ailing growth, Covid-19 has checked in at a vulnerable time.
4 min |
April 2020
Forbes Africa
Once Upon A Dreamer
Rapper 21 Savage headlines a formidable list of Forbes Under 30 alumni who grew up undocumented — and are now inspiring change to help their peers.
1 min |
April 2020
Forbes Africa
A $500 Million Consortium And Global Stage For Africa
For now, plans continue for Expo 2020 Dubai, dubbed the planet’s biggest show. And driving the Africa connection and youth development is Reem Al Hashimy, the UAE’s dynamic Minister for International Cooperation and Director General of the expo.
3 min |
April 2020
Forbes Africa
The Fundamental Steps In Finding Equality And Happiness
My visit to Durban in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province in the first week of March to attend the 2020 FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Leading Women Summit was a memorable one.
3 min |
April 2020
Forbes Africa
How To Prepare Your Business For The Contagion
With stock markets in steep decline, countries in quarantine, and cases of Covid-19 spreading rapidly around the globe, businesses have no option but to brace themselves for this raging pandemic.
4 min |
April 2020
Forbes Africa
THE ASCENT OF A NEW SPORT
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is only three months away, even as the coronavirus threatens to disrupt it. If it goes head, the Games will debut a new event called sport climbing, which is slowly gaining ground in Africa.
4 min |
April 2020
Forbes Africa
THE AFRO-OPTIMIST
Cheryl Buss, the UK-based CEO of Absa International, on her passion for Africa and its resilient, entrepreneurial mind-set.
3 min |
April 2020
Forbes Africa
NERVES OF STEEL
Self-made Ghanaian entrepreneur Nana Kwame Bediako bought his first car by age 16 and made a million pounds in the United Kingdom before he turned 21. The fearless, unabashedly ambitious property tycoon is now on a mission to transform Accra’s skyline.
5 min |
April 2020
Forbes Africa
LEADING THE CHARGE
AS 2020 USHERS IN A NEW DECADE AND A NEW SET OF DAUNTING CHALLENGES FOR THE WORLD – CLIMATE CHANGE, THE CORONAVIRUS – IT’S ALL THE MORE IMPERATIVE THAT THE WORLD’S YOUNGEST CONTINENT RISES TO THE CRISES AND SEES OPPORTUNITIES WHERE THERE SEEM TO BE NONE. THESE ARE THE MEN AND WOMEN FORGING AHEAD WITH CREDIBLE, CREATIVE AND PROFOUND STRATEGIES TO SHAPE OUR TOMORROW. CELEBRATING SIX YEARS OF THE FORBES AFRICA 30 UNDER 30 LIST, THEY ARE THE CONTINENT’S REVOLUTIONARY THINKERS REVITALIZING IDEAS AND INDUSTRIES WITH FRESH BUSINESS MODELS AND INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP.
10+ min |
April 2020
Forbes Africa
HANDS-ON APPROACH
The hygiene industry has received a shot in the arm with the recent pandemic. With emptying retail shelves, small business is also coming to the aid with innovative sanitizing ideas.
3 min |
April 2020
Forbes Africa
Africa's 50 Most Powerful Women
This is a first-of-its-kind pan-african compilation of the continent’s leading women, drawn from business, politics, media, science, sports and public life, who are challenging the status quo and creating a trail on terrain where there was none. They are reshaping history, closing inequalities and pioneering new avenues of wealth creation and in turn, lifting others with them.
10+ min |
March 2020
Forbes Africa
The Talented Choir That Never Had A Music Lesson
From humble beginnings to the limelight in Hollywood, their success is for every ordinary African with big dreams and a bigger mission.
5 min |
March 2020
Forbes Africa
Vigilance Against The Virus
With the coronavirus spreading faster globally than the news around it, how is corporate Africa bracing itself for the threat?
4 min |
March 2020
Forbes Africa
The Five Trends To Future-proof Your Business
Some of these fads were slowly building in the previous decade, others are still nascent, but need your full attention to prepare your business for the times ahead.
4 min |
March 2020
Forbes Africa
THE TRUST PRINCIPLE
South Africa’s KPMG boss Ignatius Sehoole on why ethical behavior must extend beyond working hours to all other aspects of life.
4 min |
March 2020
Forbes Africa
THE FRENCH SILHOUETTE IN AFRICA
From glamorous Paris to gritty Johannesburg, Zazi Nyandeni arrived with $2,700 and updated sartorial skills to showcase haute couture on South Africa’s racks and runways.
4 min |
March 2020
Forbes Africa
SOIL TOIL
A car accident made this graphic designer more grounded, and take to farming, tending to vegetables on a piece of land far from Johannesburg.
2 min |
March 2020
Forbes Africa
NEW BILLIONAIRE - GHOST WRITER
MacKenzie Bezos is an author, an early Amazon employee, a billionaire — and isn’t talking.
2 min |
March 2020
Forbes Africa
MINING'S PLANS TO CLEAN UP ITS ACT AND PLUG THE POWER GAP
IS THE BIGGEST MINING GATHERING ON THE PLANET STILL WORTHY OF NOTE? IT MAY HAVE BEEN SHORT ON NEWS, BUT IT WAS LONG ON BACK STORIES AND HOPE WITH A DASH OF TENSION. MANY THOUGHT THE MINING INDABA WAS FADING, BUT THE 26TH EDITION IN CAPE TOWN LAST MONTH WAS RARELY DULL IF YOU LOOKED HARD ENOUGH.
10+ min |
March 2020
Forbes Africa
A DECADE OF GERT-JOHAN COETZEE
A fashion designer who believes you can never dream too big, Gert-Johan Coet-zee is revered as one of South Africa’s most celebrated designers; synonymous with his signature style, sophistication and panache.
3 min |
March 2020
Forbes Africa
A Welcome Change For The Diaspora
Ghana’s clever campaign last year to encourage Africans to return to their roots spruced up tourism numbers and awakened the feeling of home, healing the many torn apart.
6 min |
February 2020
Forbes Africa
Africa's Richest 2020: Steady State With Some Volatility On The Margins
Like elsewhere in the world, fortunes in Africa can be volatile, thanks to changes like a new currency.
10+ min |
February 2020
Forbes Africa
Credibility Before Cricket
Mired in major governance issues in recent times, Cricket South Africa is now making sure the right people are in place to turn its fortunes around so the actual game can take center-stage.
3 min |
February 2020
Forbes Africa
Kevin Durant's Hardest Three-Point Play
The NBA superstar has come to New York with three goals in mind: A return to dominance, a defining championship and a lasting business empire. They’re all interconnected.
6 min |
February 2020
Forbes Africa
‘COCOA FARMERS WHO HAVE NEVER TASTED CHOCOLATE IN THEIR LIVES'
The unpalatable truth is an unfair distribution of profits in the global cocoa trade, of which West Africa has substantive market share. Thankfully, entrepreneurial disruptors and a new initiative in Ghana seek a sweeter ending for farmers.
7 min |
February 2020
Forbes Africa
‘CASH IS OUR COMPETITION'
Raja Rajamannar, Mastercard’s New York-based Chief Marketing Officer, was in Kenya recently. Having been a marketing guru for 35 years, he discusses key strategies for brands to stay relevant in the digital age.
5 min |
February 2020
Forbes Africa
WHERE EVERYONE GAINS
The Global Gender Summit, fittingly held in Rwanda, reiterated that the only way to reduce poverty and develop Africa is to narrow the gender gap and optimize full human capital.
4 min |
February 2020
Forbes Africa
MAKE THE COLLEGES PAY
Most edtech startups are idealistic outfits with little revenue and low valuations, but Rachel Romer Carlson’s Guild Education is worth $1 billion and is on track to book $100 million in sales. Her secret? Connecting workers who have tuition benefits to colleges that will gladly pay to meet them.
5 min |