Aside from the fact that Africa is larger in size than Bangladesh, Britain, China, France, Germany. Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Spain and t
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Africa’s tourism officials grimly acknowledge that they will have to throw their collective weight behind a “Brand Africa” to attract to the continent more of the nearly one trillion tourists wh
Bent on increasing revenues and profits, companies are scouring the world for markets to sell their goods and services, invest in manufacturing for local and/or export consumption and buy products for
On Feb. 10, Bukola Akinfaderin took her last flight to Nigeria as a resident of New Jersey. Founder and CEO of New Jersey-based Jandus Technology L.L.C., she arrived in Lagos as one of the city’s
A Summit of Black Mayors Signifying much in Africa’s RenaissanceBy Rosalind McLymontFor five days last December, some 250 African mayors and mayors of African descent from the United States, Canada,
India is expanding its footprint in Africa so aggressively that a mighty buzz has arisen about Sino-Indian rivalry for influence on the continent. On the face of it, India and China are not in the sam
Years before it became popular to equate Africa with being “open for business,” the “final frontier for investment” and “one of the world’s fastest-growing regions”; amid the widely repo
External influencers have long determined travel and tourism to Africa. Tour developers and packagers, airlines, media, customers, hotel owners and operators — all from the developed world — have
Just shy of a year before a popular uprising toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a little-noticed revolt took place that shows how Egypt’s future is more closely tied to Africa than to the Mid
On Jan. 5, police in Kericho, the heartbeat of Kenya’s tea industry, stormed the United States Military HIV Research Program clinic after hearing that a child had died there while donating blood. Th