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Future Forward

The Marketing Slice: A deep dive into the strategic planning role

by Olatomide Asher

South Africa’s Ramaphosa wants to set up a sovereign wealth fund

Chinedu Osiagwu

Rand recovers with Lira, but risks remain for the Naira

Niyi Aderibigbe

Ethiopia Airlines favourite to set up and manage Nigeria’s new national carrier

Chinedu Osiagwu

Empire

No IPO Yet?

MTN raises $553m from 12 Nigerian banks

MTN Nigeria has secured a N200 billion ($553.5 million) loan from 12…

Kenya

ARM Cement chief executive kicked off his father’s company as losses rise

ARM Cement Chief Executive Pradeep Paunrana will leave the company founded by…

CPI

Nigerian Inflation eases to 11.14% in July

Inflation rate in Nigeria dropped further in July to 11.14 percent from…

CiplaQCIL

Local drugmaker lists on Ugandan bourse

Uganda’s Cipla Quality Chemical Industries (CiplaQCIL) is selling 657,179,319 shares to raise…

Ethiopia Airlines to build a new airport in Oromia region

Ethiopian Airlines plans to build a new airport in Bishoftu, located in the Misraq…

People & Power

4/16

Jailbird

South Africa launches probe into telephone interview with Czech prisoner

No to graft

Top officials arrested for graft in Kenya

South Africa’s president to consult Zambia and DR Congo’s head of state

Election loss

Ugandan politician seals boreholes he sunk for ‘ungrateful voters’

2019

The handling of the senate president’s saga by Nigeria’s ruling party is both naive and nefarious

Fighting economic exclusion

Changes to the Constitution may boost, not weaken, South African property rights

Pipe dream

Why politics need hope but no longer inspires it

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Opposition parties fume as Zimbabwe’s ruling party wins majority in parliament

Meet the New World Bank Vice President for Africa

Sam Nzima, photographer of iconic 1976 Soweto Uprising image, dies after collapse

The Last Great Zarma Griot

Djibo Badjé, great Zarma griot and “father of the word”, dies with secrets of his people yet hidden from the world

Hailu Mergia: The Ethiopian musical genius reinventing music

Determined to succeed

Salma Al-Majidi: The Sudanese woman breaking taboos with her love for football

A Legend Departs

Winnie Mandela, anti-apartheid Icon leaves a tainted legacy behind

IATF2018

Obasanjo becomes the chairman of Afreximbank Advisory Council for Intra-African Trade Fair

Yvonne Aki Sawyerr becomes first woman since 1980 to emerge as Freetown’s mayor

Culture Currents

Nigeria and Ghana To Fulfill FIFA Ultimatums or Face Ban from Global Football

Nigeria and Ghana are both facing international suspensions from FIFA after a…

by Adaku Nwakanma

Vulgarity

If ‘This is Nigeria’ can be banned, forget social activism in Nigerian music

While writing about Falz’s ‘This is Nigeria’ I claimed “there’s no chance…

by IfeOluwa Nihinlola

Equality

Africans from Kenya and Uganda join the 10th Gay Games in Paris

Despite strict anti-gay laws in most countries in Africa, some nationals are…

by Adaku Nwakanma

Dual identity

Trevor Noah is right; people can be both French and African

The afterglow of France winning the 2018 World Cup tournament on July…

by Edward Ademolu

Kenya’s championships win soured as former world champion Nicholas Bett passes at 28

Nicholas Bett had just returned from the African Athletics Championships in Nigeria…

by Adaku Nwakanma

No vulgar lyrics, please!

Falz’s ‘This is Nigeria’, Wande Cole’s ‘Iskaba’, banned by Nigeria’s broadcasting commission

Popular Nigerian rapper Falz’s viral, politically-charged hit This is Nigeria has been banned…

by Adaku Nwakanma

Insight of the month

While going cashless is not the solution to Zimbabwe’s economic crisis, it can reduce the current fiscal pressures and allow some room to tackle the current crisis.

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Editors Pick

Trade in the face of growing protectionism

In the wake of United states president, Donald Trump’s global trade war,…

President Xi Jinping and President Paul Kagame in Kigali, Rwanda

African countries are going to war with the US, and they might win

Barack Obama’s ‘Trade not Aid’ policy direction in Africa had its detractors,…

Ghana economic outlook cut down

Why five banks failed in Ghana

Seven banks have collapsed in less than two years in Ghana, as…

Africa-infrastructure-projects

Global reflation is boosting Africa’s economies

Global reflation in early 2017 is boosting Africa’s economies as increasing imports…

Nexus

Zambians to start paying for WhatsApp calls

by Sam Mpofu

Nigerian Teenage girls strike Gold at Technovation World Pitch at the Silicon Valley, California

by Adaku Nwakanma

Lagos-based digital credit services startup closes $13m ‘series A round’

by The Nerve Desk

Your medication may have already given you cancer without your knowledge

by Chiamaka Ihekwoaba

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