Forbes Africa

THE COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF Government Meeting (CHOGM) is returning to Africa after almost 15 years. The last time it was held on the continent was in Uganda in 2007. This will be the 25th edition of the biennial conference, and from June 20-25, the wo

HE’S OUR MAN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. former FORBES AFRICA 30 Under 30 lister and South African photographer and creative director Trevor Stuurman is currently featuring his first solo exhibition outside of South Africa. The collection of self-portrait

Africa grapples with huge disparities in education as a result of income inequality, lack of proper facilities and quality educators which have been further exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The factors mentioned above are caused by geo-political

ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT THIS JOB is the young people you get to regularly meet, and the ideas and tips that mellifluously come from them on running a company, a country, the world. Even if you don’t meet them IRL, the surfeit of talent that pour

BILLIONAIRE entrepreneur Patrice Motsepe boldly said at the Forbes Under 30 Summit Africa in Gaborone, Botswana in April this year that “this is Africa’s time... and it’s an exceptional time”. For the past seven years, FORBES AFRICA has been celebrat

SOUTH AFRICA’S NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE seems to stretch endlessly, the largest in the country at almost 400,000sqkm. Relatively flat land gives way to farm after farm, with maize, sheep and cattle amongst thousands of plants and livestock under yield.

TOPE AWOTONA, THE 40-YEAR-OLD founder and chief executive of Calendly, leans back in his chair and lets loose a loud guffaw. “You call it on message, I call it the truth,” he says, slapping his hands on the table. The truth, as Awotona has it, is tha

MOTORBIKES ARE UBIQUITOUS IN AFRICA, weaving through traffic as a mandatory motif in the continent’s bustling bazaars and raucous streets. Consider the boda bodas of Kenya or the moto-taxis in Rwanda, and with the pandemic, the spurt witnessed in the

THE WORLD Health Organization (WHO) stated recently that we are still in the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. The five stages determined by WHO are ‘Pandemic, Deceleration, Control, Elimination and Eradication’. While this projection did create

LOS ANGELES- based twins and beauty entrepreneurs Feven Yohannes and Helena Yohannes are no strangers to life’s struggles. In fact, struggles preceded their birth. The story they have heard their parents often say is of their long months journeying f

IN THE FALL OF 2020, a young staffer in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art department made a bold pitch to explore a new asset class, hoping to score points with Charles Stewart, the company’s new CEO. Stewart hadn’t heard of NFTs — non fungible tokens, now

WHAT happens when a 52-year-old beekeeper from the Khayelitsha township in Cape Town meets an entrepreneur born in 1994? Old school meets new energy and honey gets sold at 10 times the rate it used to, as the beekeeper is now connected to the formal

IN SETSWANA, THE NATIVE language of Botswana, there is a typically evocative proverb that goes: Dilo makwati re kwatabolola mo go ba bangwe – Sharing knowledge is like the stripping of bark from a tree to pass to others. Though digital news-sharing h

EVERY YEAR, THE DEPARTMENT FOR Education in the United Kingdom (UK) allocates funding to chosen schools to help maintain and improve the condition of their buildings and grounds. On receiving the funding, the schools invite qualified companies that c

IN THE BEATING HEART of the impeccably-green city of Kigali, in one of the most sought-after commercial zones, past a small gate and a garden is a shared space for home-grown Rwandan startups. Entering the first building, a double-storied structure m

THERE’S LAUGHTER IN THE BREAST CANCER WARD. Shaheenah Dawood is in her bright sunny office wearing a lab coat, a floral dress and a smile that can make anyone feel welcome and well. The only thing that is infectious here, in these corridors at the Me

NOT JUST FOR ITS UNTOUCHED beaches and swaying palms, Zanzibar, the sunny archipelago off the coast of Tanzania lapped up by the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, may now also be known for its opportunities. New regulations are set to allow non-Tanzan

ENDURANCE LESSONS ALWAYS go a long way in business – and in life. And sometimes, you go beyond the boardrooms to find them. South Africa’s Anita Musevenzo and Evadnee Le Goff found them on the peaks of the highest mountains in the country’s nine prov

THE 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES TO BE staged in Birmingham, England from July 28 to August 8 was a missed opportunity for Africa away from the field of competition, but provides the continent’s athletes with the chance to win a prestigious gold medal and

THE CAPRIVI STRIP, A THIN SLIVER OF LAND 240 miles long and 20 miles wide, is perhaps one of the most fascinating regions in southern Africa with a rich past and seven distinct ethnic people. Early traders and explorers like David Livingstone entered

OVER THE PAST DECADE, THOUSANDS OF African children have died from lead poisoning. In countries like Botswana, Zambia, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya and Tanzania, blood lead levels is not only unusually high – they’re increasing, according to a report