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.

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.

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.

Vigilance Against The Virus

With the coronavirus spreading faster globally than the news around it, how is corporate Africa bracing itself for the threat?

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.

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.

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.

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.

NEW BILLIONAIRE - GHOST WRITER

MacKenzie Bezos is an author, an early Amazon employee, a billionaire — and isn’t talking.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

‘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.

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.

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.

CATTLE, CROPS AND KILLINGS

There is a new shift to agriculture in Nigeria, but in its semi-arid rural parts, the feud for land and resources between farmers and nomadic herdsmen continues to threaten its future.

A NEW DAWN?

With the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement coming into force on July 1, the African Union may finally mean business.

‘WHAT STOPS US DOING THIS IN OTHER SPHERES?'

The Rugby World Cup win created a sense of unity in an ailing Rainbow Nation. The team’s lead protagonists hope this is the start of bigger things for South Africa’s economy too.

‘NEVER BE A COPY AND-PASTE'

South African entrepreneur and culture junkie, Sylvester Chauke, on the importance of standing out in the corporate world, his love for travel and the need to invest only in what one believes in.

UNATHI NKAYI'S GHANA

In the coastal country’s capital Accra, the South African musician savored street food and a different kind of music, in tandem with the sound of the waves.

THE BOKS AND BIG BUCKS

Investors gathered for the second annual South Africa Investment Conference as the country promised renewed optimism and a Springbok-style recovery despite a moody outlook.

SOLE PASSION

Jo Farah found his feet in the sneaker cleaning business. His eco-friendly products are made in a lab.

MANY TRICKY CURVEBALLS

In comparison with rugby, baseball is considered a minor sport in South Africa. Gift Ngoepe and Taylor Scott are role models but taking the game to the people is a massive task.

LIGHTS, CAMERA, LOCATION!

In the tiny, impoverished village of Kuntaur, an effort to bring global education to Gambian communities through films shown on a makeshift screen under a starlit African sky.

GREEN-SKY THINKING

In Johannesburg, city-dwellers like Linah Moeketsi have taken the future of sustainable farming into their own hands. Where land is becoming scarce, they look to the skies.

AFRICAN OF THE YEAR

THE PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK BELIEVES PASSIONATELY THAT POVERTY HAS NO PLACE IN AFRICA. RESTLESS ABOUT CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CONTINENT AND PROMOTING FOOD SECURITY THROUGH AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION, THIS IS A MAN ON A MISSION.