Yvonne Mhango In February this year we were in Nigeria and Ghana, where the macro outlook is improving. Growth promises to be more balanced in Nigeria, where the services sector finally emerged from recession in the last quarter of 2017. We believe this signals that the consumer is at the…
Anta Babacar Ngom’s most unforgettable moment was not the day when she got her dream job. It was the day she didn’t. Anta Babacar had just returned to Senegal from Paris, where she was studying at prestigious universities and working for a multinational company. At the time, she thought…
Delivered by DHL A new report from DHL eCommerce MoneyAfrica research partner, Forrester, has identified five key success factors that e-commerce businesses need to strategically plan for as they launch or expand their organisations. Having the right people, the right organisational structure and an innovative idea for online sales is largely…
Nairobi, Kenya 2017 was a difficult year for the Kenyan real estate market. With some residential and commercial nodes facing an oversupply, depressed sales figures across the board, and the disappearance of the senior debt market, we have to assume that some real estate investors are hurting and in desperate…
Rob Shuter This article is a summary of a presentation delivered by Rob Shuter, group president and CEO of the MTN Group, at Deloitte’s Africa in 2018 Outlook Conference, which was held in January 2018. From MTN’s perspective, several factors and core principles have contributed to the firm’s success of building a customer…
Thomas Gottschalk Thomas Gottschalk is CEO and founder of Mobisol, a German-based international company that engineers, develops and delivers rent-to-own solar home and business systems, appliances and services for emerging economies. 1. Tell us about one of the toughest situations you’ve found yourself in as a business owner. As a…
Delivered by DHL As Industry 4.0 moves into the mainstream, manufacturing companies are learning that technology is only part of the challenge. Almost five years ago, a German government-sponsored project exploring the implications of new and emerging computer technologies for manufacturing published its final report. Industry 4.0 Working Group presented their…
Young farmers pose at a banana farm in Mitunguu, Meru County, Kenya, February 10, 2018. Photo: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Caroline Wambui When Francis Njoroge graduated with an engineering degree in Nairobi, he expected to earn a six-figure salary. Instead he found himself working as an electrician on a three-month contract, for…
The objective of this article is to provide a snapshot on progress of implementation of activities by the Government of Ghana, private sector and development partners since January 2017, when Ghana ratified the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. Ghana became the 104th country to ratify the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement on…
Gert-Jan van Rooyen, CEO and co-founder of Custos Media Technologies How Custos capitalised on a gap in the digital rights protection market. Take us back to where it all started? Bounty hunters, embedded Bitcoin rewards, pirates and blockchain. It sounds like the building blocks for a futuristic adventure film and…