I have heard many reasons why Americans should be wary of investing in Africa’s stock markets, even though the continent’s dozen or so exchanges have outperformed their North Ameri
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There’s nothing highbrow about the investment opportunity Franklin Alli proposes in his April 28 article in Nigeria’s Vanguard newspaper. If you’re planning to go into a business, he says, cons
If U.S. immigration reform plays out the way U.S. Sens. Edward Kennedy and John McCain would like it to, don’t be surprised if some African countries slap a ban on the emigration of nurses and other
We are seated in the lounge of The Water Club located on the FDR Drive in New York City. The flames of the wood fire simmer in Polo Radebe’s eyes as she tells of South Africa’s war
One of my favorite women leaders in Africa was never elected to political office. She is 71-year-old Tereza Mbire, fondly known as Mama Mbire, chair of Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association Ltd. Mama
It was a carefully orchestrated road show that saw some of Nigeria’s brightest government and business stars selling potential investors on the “new” Nigeria. From Nov. 8 through Nov. 10 in Wash
Two years ago they were 50.Today their number has swelled to more than 600. Once despairing victims of Rwanda’s infamous genocide, today they are entrepreneurs who have woven a success story with a
I learned to drive in Uganda in 1973 with a baby blue, stick shift Volkswagen Variant station wagon. It was my first car. I’d bought it from one of the British teachers at the secondary school in Fo
When I was a teacher in Uganda in the early 1970s, I would travel the 200-mile distance from Kampala, the capital, to Fort Portal near the Congolese border by bus, and then take a taxi for another 10
The party was eight years in the making but the Internet visionaries of Africa finally got to dance. At a board meeting in Argentina in April, the Internet Cor