From farming chickens in Rwanda and growing moringa in Uganda to exporting dried hibiscus flowers from Nigeria.

Solar energy, fishing, and the local manufacturing of imported consumer goods identified as three promising areas for ...

Ibrahim Sagna, executive chairman of Silverbacks Holdings, discusses the firm's origins and how it picks its investments.

The Africa Jobs Fund backs companies that can raise incomes for Africans, focusing on international labour mobility and ...

Fonio – a gluten-free grain with many nutritional benefits – has been cultivated as a subsistence crop in West Africa for ...

Real stories of entrepreneurs turning opportunity into profit, the latest book by Jaco Maritz, has been recognised at t ...

Africa's agricultural potential is widely recognised. But how easy is it really to build an export business around it?

One Saturday in 2010, Gbola Lawson was knocking on the doors of small brick-and-mortar stores in Lagos – Nigeria’s megacity of roughly seventeen million people – trying to persuade shopkeepers to ...

Nigerian-born Seun Rasheed was working for oil giant Shell in Qatar when a holiday to Rwanda set him on a different path. During the trip, the wide gap between the local price of passion fruit and ...