It wasn’t supposed to be this way: The abject poor of Africa pooling their meager earnings to help alleviate suffering in the United States. But so it was.
For days the Acholi women of northern Ugan
Africa Focus
At the beginning of June, delegates from some 45 countries were preparing to descend on London for London Calling, one of the world’s biggest events in the music business. From June 18 to 20, the de
The April 7, 2008, issue of BusinessWeek carried a five-page article on how thousands of manufacturers in China are being pushed to the edge of bankruptcy, the cumulative effect of plummeting U.S. dem
Last August, about 250 men and women of good intentions gathered in Oslow, Norway, to address former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s 2004 challenge to transform African farming to sustainable mo
Joanne Thomas Yaccato, founder and president of Thomas Yaccato Group, a Canadian consultancy that helps companies attract the attention and loyalty of women consumers, recounts the story of Muni Shoni
First posed some six years ago, the question was like a drumbeat that had no end. “When are we going to do something in Africa?” General Electric Corp.’s African-American employees kept ask
Economic Outlook
Sub-Saharan Africa enjoyed another strong year. “It’s best period of sustained growth since independence,” states the International Monetary Fund in its October 2007 “World Ec
Many of us have heard the story of two salesmen from two separate shoe-manufacturing companies who traveled to Africa in early colonial times. As the story goes, one of the salesmen returned home with
When one of the world’s most recognizable names in financial services says that Africa presents “the final frontier” for investors looking toward emerging markets; that the continent’s bountif
Organizers of Food Tech Africa, the continent’s biggest annual food and beverage trade show, expected this year’s attendees to outnumber the 7,000 who came from 31 countries last y