Should renewable energy developers invest in vocational training? Job creation? Home repair? The answer, based on best practice in emerging markets around the world, is unequivocally yes – with community investment designed to match local priorities. The most successful companies...
Read More...Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions to the impacts of climate change. While the continent is responsible for only 4 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions, far reaching repercussions of climate-related shocks directly impact 65 percent of its population....
Read More...John Lennon once said, ‘A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality’. Never did these words ring more true than for Africa’s Great Green Wall, a collaborative initiative built on unity...
Read More...“For more than a decade, African economies have been riding the crest of a global commodity wave. Demand for energy resources and metals has been outstripping supply, pushing up prices to near-record levels in some cases. There is more to...
Read More...Climate changes poses a considerable threat to the African continent. Over the last four decades, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced more than 1,000 disasters. These events have inflicted significant economic damage and considerable loss of lives and livelihoods. Within this context,...
Read More...If there was ever a time to make agriculture the centrepiece of Africa’s economic development agenda, then surely that time is now. Consider the major challenge which has emerged in sub-Saharan Africa this year. As the El Niño-related drought crippled...
Read More...The 25th African Union Heads of State and Government Summit in South Africa last June had the theme: “2015 Year of Women Economic Empowerment and Development towards Africa’s Agenda 2063”. As a result, several women-affiliated organizations attended side events organized...
Read More...End the reliance on imports and become self-sufficient in rice! This is the resounding statement increasingly being made by African governments in response to the huge challenge of food insecurity. In Africa, rice is the most rapidly growing food source...
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Director, Centre for African Entrepreneurship and Leadership (CAEL) at University of Wolverhampton, UK
Professor of International Business at Offenburg University
Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania
Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa
Director of International Records Management Trust