Business
Forbes Africa
REAPING REWARDS
In green Kigali, Viateur Ndahayo is adding his own aesthetic touch to the city with his booming flower business.
4 min |
December - January 2021
Forbes Africa
AFRICAN Of The Year
NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA IS WELL-POSITIONED TO TAKE ON THE NEXT BIG ROLE, TRANSFORMING AFRICA AND NEGOTIATING ON THE WORLD STAGE.
10+ min |
December - January 2021
Forbes Africa
The Digital Wasteland Where Products Never Die
E-waste is hazardous, but often not properly tracked or recycled. What’s needed? A more formalized re-use economy and future-thinking brands.
4 min |
October - November 2020
Forbes Africa
Our Ninth Anniversary And The Most Important Attributes Needed Today
As we all persevere and seek our own ‘Ultima Thule’ through this very difficult time, we need to sit back and celebrate the small wins that help lift our morale.
5 min |
October - November 2020
Forbes Africa
The New Tycoons Ready For The Next Normal
The change-makers in Nigeria’s new digital economy are turning today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities. They are the tenacious new wealth creators in a country that celebrates its 60th anniversary in October.
10+ min |
October - November 2020
Forbes Africa
The Blockbuster Named Nollywood
A look at the never-say-die Nigerian film industry’s emerging money-spinning trends.
9 min |
October - November 2020
Forbes Africa
Powering Through The Pandemic
Covid-19 has proved to be a game-changer for East African businesses. Among the hardest hit is the region’s alternative energy sector. Responsible for providing many remote communities with off-grid energy services, sector businesses started the year on a high. FORBES AFRICA examines how they are responding, and coping, in the current crisis.
7 min |
October - November 2020
Forbes Africa
Tanzania Is Ahead Of Schedule
I congratulate all my compatriots on this historic achievement. We had envisaged to achieve this status by 2025 but with strong determination, this has been possible in 2020. God bless Tanzania.”
6 min |
October - November 2020
Forbes Africa
A Nadir Of Hope In ‘The New Normal'?
As Africa’s biggest economy marks its diamond jubilee, there are mixed views for its post-pandemic recovery forecast. But there is reason to be hopeful about the hyper-competitiveness and resilience of the country’s middle class and youth through the fog of uncertainty.
8 min |
October - November 2020
Forbes Africa
The 500% Leap From Store to Door
Covid-19 has left many businesses in disarray. But not OneCart, South Africa’s ondemand grocery delivery service that rewarded its founders Lynton Peters and Ariel Navarro with record growth.
6 min |
October - November 2020
Forbes Africa
RESUSCITATING The Multilateral Trading System
Amina Mohamed has had a long illustrious career as an accomplished international civil servant, lawyer and diplomat and is currently Kenya’s Minister of Sports, Heritage and Culture. As the race is on to find the next Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), she is one of three candidates from Africa running for the top post, and could make history if she wins. She speaks to FORBES AFRICA in September from Geneva about her vision for renewing global trade.
7 min |
October - November 2020
Forbes Africa
A Day In The Life Of…
SIX MONTHS INTO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IN SOUTH AFRICA, THE FATE OF MOST SMALL BUSINESSES REMAINS UNCERTAIN. THE FEW LEFT ARE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE. SKILLED LABORERS ARE WITHOUT JOBS AND THE COUNTRY FACES AN UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS. ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE SNAPSHOTS OF SOME PARTS OF THE ECONOMY SLOWLY CRAWLING BACK TO LIFE.
3 min |
October - November 2020
Forbes Africa
‘The Digital Economy Is An Extremely Powerful, Transparent Tool'
What are the big corporates thinking? Raghu Malhotra, the Dubai-based president of mastercard Middle East & Africa, on developing clear frameworks for the current crisis, and why digital transformation is more important now than ever before.
5 min |
August - September 2020
Forbes Africa
Life Must Go On
Temie Giwa-Tubosun supplies blood to hospitals and oxygen to Covid-19 patients in Nigeria. The special deliveries arrive with doses of compassion and hope.
4 min |
August - September 2020
Forbes Africa
Thinking Out Of The Box: Creating Shared Value And A Country Of Entrepreneurs
Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa’s initiative, Bizniz in a Box, meaningfully empowers youth and women to create and scale viable micro-businesses in the country’s communities.
5 min |
August - September 2020
Forbes Africa
Where All Routes Lead To Good Health
Through the Project Last Mile partnership, Coca-Cola works with African governments to leverage its extensive distribution network to deliver health commodities and life-saving medication to the continent’s remotest regions.
5 min |
August - September 2020
Forbes Africa
App You Like It
The newly-established delivery app industry in Tanzania is serving up old business in a new format, diversifying the e-commerce market and driving consumer behavior beyond Covid-19.
7 min |
August - September 2020
Forbes Africa
Pfizer's Covid Moon Shot
Albert Bourla has boldly predicted his company might find and distribute a vaccine by this fall. The first look inside a $1 billion bet that could change the world.
10+ min |
August - September 2020
Forbes Africa
The People's Banker
In 1993, Dr James mwangi walked away from a promising career at one of Kenya’s largest banks, to join the equity building society. Three decades on, few could have predicted his entrepreneurial leadership would work to transform not just equity but the financial services of the region. Forbes Africa meets the man behind East Africa’s billion-dollar banking empire.
10+ min |
August - September 2020
Forbes Africa
A Day In The Fields, A Lifetime In Fashion
Tsholanang Mathibe never let her humble upbringing come in the way of her big dreams designing for the rich and famous in South Africa.
4 min |
August - September 2020
Forbes Africa
Blockchain To Track Your Tea?
How this Tanzanian entrepreneur’s tea startup is weathering the Covid-19 storm.
4 min |
August - September 2020
Forbes Africa
Covid-19: Africa's Gender Pandemic
From New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, to German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, Covid-19 has been shining a light on women and paving the way for new thinking in global leadership. But, in Africa, has it been so? A look through the gender lens of the pandemic.
10+ min |
August - September 2020
Forbes Africa
The Billionaire's Startup
The world is awash in streaming services, and Meg Whitman already had her fortune — but then Jeffrey Katzenberg came calling with a mobile-focused startup. With nearly $1.8 billion raised and America on lockdown, consumers may have no choice but to try Quibi.
4 min |
June - July 2020
Forbes Africa
‘WFH' Here To Stay?
The home will be hub and flexible working the norm. The result? Renewed employee trust, wellness and cost savings, say more companies.
4 min |
June - July 2020
Forbes Africa
The Leading Voice In Telling The African Story
On June 1, CNBC Africa celebrates 13 years of relaying boundless stories of economic growth and prosperity on the African continent. It achieved its objective of changing the narrative and continues to do so with relentless reporting in the time of Covid-19.
2 min |
June - July 2020
Forbes Africa
Start Of The Mask Economy
Even the most unconventional businesses, such as a Cape Town candy shop, are selling masks to face off the economic crisis.
3 min |
June - July 2020
Forbes Africa
Empty Roads, Occupied Minds
With a deadly virus still lurking in the streets and tougher times ahead, traders in South Africa’s colorful townships desperately look to resuscitate their businesses with creative offerings online.
4 min |
June - July 2020
Forbes Africa
Fast Virus. Slow Growth.
Ghana and Nigeria brace for the economic nightmare ahead, even as the region’s billionaires, entrepreneurs and innovators chip in for the fight against Covid-19.
10 min |
June - July 2020
Forbes Africa
Beyond The Lockdown: What Big Business Is Doing Now
Corporate Africa has to urgently pandemic-proof itself with new ideas, innovations and emotions, to merely stay alive fighting a marauding virus.
10+ min |
June - July 2020
Forbes Africa
Covid-19: The Ultimate Disruptor
The coronavirus has rebooted every aspect of life as we know it. Across Africa, home-grown ideas and smallscale technological innovations are coming to the fore to help combat it.
10+ min |