Stirring It Up

Reitumetse Kholumo, the 25-year-old founder of Kwela Brews, is working to ensure that indigenous knowledge systems and makers of homegrown alcohol earn their rightful place in South Africa’s formal economy.

The Dry Life

Athletic Brewing’s Bill Shufelt and John Walker are making non-alcoholic beer tasty enough to please the biggest suds snobs. And with a nearly $500 million valuation, the six-year-old startup has investors intoxicated.

Tapping Into The Market

Tanzania’s beer-guzzlers have a locally-brewed option as this entrepreneur attempts to change the country’s drinking culture with a social enterprise.

Big Shot

Nigerian teen golf prodigy Iyene Essien is focused on her goal to become ‘the female African Tiger Woods’. She has been acing her game from when she was six.

Eazi Does It: 'I Was Just Born To Create'

In 2018, Oluwatosin Ajibade, better known as Mr Eazi, made the FORBES AFRICA 30 Under 30 list. The journey to that began in 2016, when Ajibade took the world by storm with his Afrobeats hit single Leg Over.

Time And Tide

This is the first year the Ocean Race has been attempted since 2018, with 11 boats taking part in a journey expected to last six months, finishing early July. During the Ocean Race stop in Cape Town, South Africa, recently, French sailor Kevin Escoffier spoke about how you discover more about yourself in the high seas than in any other sport.

More To Mogadishu

Behind the sandbags, blast barriers, barbed wires and high walls, are impressive modern buildings in Somalia's capital city. Despite the country struggling with war and drought, there is a strong pride in being Somali.

Celluloid Reality

Rwandan cinema is coming of age, with a new wave of artistes and filmmakers bent on reiterating the country's indomitable creative spirit and putting its movies on the international map.

The Metaverse In Your Pocket

This writer stepped into the metaverse for a flying taxi ride at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And roll, fold, flip – more nifty tech is coming up in the world of mobile phones.

Talking A-'bot AFRICA

Where does the continent fit into the chatbot conversation, and why it needs its own startups that focus on AI.

Story Of An African Lake

By Lake Tanganyika, the world's longest freshwater lake, our travel writer is woken up by chimpanzees as he retraces the steps taken by Dr David Livingstone and Jane Goodall.

Multiple Factors At Play

That South Africa has just a single player featuring in Europe’s top five leagues is a telling indictment of the country’s football, which has seemingly been left behind by the rest of the world.

50 Over 50 – Success At Every Age

Introducing Forbes Africa's 50 Over 50 List - Our first-ever compilation of 50 women over the age of 50 scaling newer heights and inspiring the next cadre of leadership on the african continent. Age is just a number for them and retirement not an option or the end of the road, as they continue to power their way into history books and the hearts of africans. From business tycoons to technocrats, founders to C-suite executives, and activists to entertainers, they have broken barriers throughout their impactful careers, and taken up spaces to ensure others have a voice in those very spaces and beyond. Read on: the senior-most change-maker on this list is 98 and still unstoppable!

Africa’s Just Transition Into Green Energy

Standard Bank’s climate policy aims to reach net-zero carbon emissions for its new facilities by 2030, its existing operations by 2040, and its portfolio of financed emissions by 2050. Kenny Fihla, CEO of Standard Bank Corporate and Investment Banking, expands on this.

Building Africa's Digital Payments Infrastructure: THE PATH TO ECONOMIC GROWTH

The adoption of digital payments by businesses plays a pivotal role in transforming Africa’s economy. Cellulant is focused on empowering global and local businesses operating in Africa with the ability to accept and make payments seamlessly via its unparalleled payment network.

Cage Competitors

Blood and bruises, sweat and fury. Mixed martial arts is gaining popularity in South Africa with home-grown talent fighting to find their place in the continent and beyond.

WOMEN AND GUNS: Fear, Fury And Fire

With pounding hearts but eyes firmly on target, record numbers of women are learning to use firearms in crime-riddled South Africa. Training starts with the legalities of owning a firearm, which to most, is probably the most effective tool to disarm attackers, and also an introduction to the sport of shooting.

Re-Telling The African Story

Africa is now reclaiming its own stories, and harnessing generations of storytelling craft to reconfigure the ways in which it is represented and perceived.

BIG DATA BIGGER MOVIES

Does the future of the film industry sit in the cloud?

Cars With Feelings

The latest in automotive technology that's rolling out, even cars with facial expressions and that you can talk to.

Strengthening Production And Export In Gauteng

Enhancing Industrial Development One Precinct At A Time: The OR Tambo SEZ Vision

The Good Doctor With An Eye For Al

Precision healthcare is growing exponentially due to the application of Al in oncology. MedTech entrepreneur Dr Kingsley Ndoh is leading in this regard from Rwanda, helping oncologists and their patients in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Icons And Ideas SHAPING AFRICA

The eighth instalment of the much-awaited FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Leading Women Summit will be on March 8, honoring International Women’s Day, as an in-person event at the SunBet Arena, Time Square, in Pretoria, South Africa.

Clean Energy's Wild Ride

Two decades ago, Robert Wilder quit a comfy job teaching environmental sciences to bet on exotic fuels. He might make you rich if you can handle the risk.

MEGAN THEE INVINCIBLE

IT SEEMS THAT NOTHING CAN STOP HIP-HOP SUPERSTAR MEGAN THEE STALLION FROM BUILDING AN EMPIRE WORTHY OF HER ROLE MODEL, BEYONCÉ. THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS A KILLER - BUT SHE HAS ALREADY SURVIVED THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, AN ARMY OF HATERS AND MOST RECENTLY A BLING RING-STYLE ROBBERY.

Digital Payments Ignite A New Era Of Hope For SMEs In Kenya

Shehryar Ali, Country Manager for East Africa at Mastercard shares his thoughts on SME recovery in a post-pandemic world.

From The Alps: Cost, Climate And Conflict

The small, snow-capped town of Davos, Switzerland, witnessed freezing temperatures and heated debates in January. At this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, themed Cooperation in a Fragmented World, more than 500 CEOs of the world’s biggest firms attended alongside A-list celebrities such as Idris Elba with his wife Sabrina, and social media influencers, promoting a diverse mix of thought-leaders and thinkers.

From Coalitions To Currencies To Celebration, Thoughts On The Continent

When I was packing my bags W to leave South Africa at the end of November 2022, the country was going through political lobbying and hobnobbing that seemed to be far more fragmented than I had witnessed from my first visit in 2004.

A 100 Years Encapsulated In Every Sip

How do you sum up 100 years in one evening? Sounds impossible. But not for Glenfiddich, who have, in partnership with Proud Mary, launched South Africa's first 100 Club and Whiskey Vault.

Climate change and investment advocate of Zimbabwe

The award-winning Zimbabwean entrepreneur and philanthropist Edd Branson is leading a green investment drive that currently operates in three continents.