Southern Africa

The onset of the covid-19 pandemic led to the collapse of many businesses and rendered hundreds jobless. In spite of the challenges the pandemic posed to the business...

In Africa, few entrepreneurs venture into the apparel and footwear industry owing to structural challenges and growing taste for foreign products by citizens of the ‘motherland.’ As a...

Hussein A. Jakhura, alongside his son, started Malawi-based Nyama World in 2009 and focused on processing beef and goat meat for sale to the domestic market through its...

Dreams do come true, and Nicolas Dlamini is proof. The 25-year-old makes his debut on cycling’s biggest stage, Tour de France, as the first Black South African to...

Getting into the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, a boarding school in South Africa, was not easy for Lindiwe Tsope in 2007. Out of 12 pupils from...

Sihle Magubane is the founder of South Africa’s first Black-owned coffee brand. The entrepreneur founded Sihle’s Brew in 2012 after years of being a barista, working for some...

London-based Zimbabwean businessman Strive Masiyiwa has hit another record-breaking career milestone, as his £1.087 billion fortune earned him the title of Britain’s first black billionaire on the Sunday Times...

Valerie Moran was born into a family of five children. Originally from Zimbabwe, her parents were successful entrepreneurs. Her mother was a beautician while her dad owned many...

Between 1960 and 1989, about 30% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s highly skilled personnel, an estimated 70,000 to 100,000 people, left for Europe and North America.  Resilient, despite the “brain...

The transition of music consumption from physical to digital hit the music industry hard as the internet gave way to illegal music sharing. It’s estimated that worldwide revenues...