West Africa

Founded in Ghana by Jorge Appiah in 2018, Solar Taxi is an e-mobility company that assembles, sells and leases electric motorbikes. It also distributes imported electric cars and plans to...

When Emmanuel Ansah-Amprofi discovered the high price of imported onions at a local market in Cape Coast, Ghana, he decided to enter the agriculture sector. The entrepreneur says he...

Covid-19 collapsed small and medium-sized businesses with the hardest hit being Black founders. On the other hand, the pandemic also brought out the innovative and creative side of...

A Nigerian mum has broken a 149-year-old jinx after she became the first black woman to secure a PhD in Pure Mathematics at the University of South Africa...

Fatima Babakura grew up in Northern Nigeria but lives in Lagos. According to her, living in Lagos gave her a different perspective about life, which is markedly different...

A 17-year-old boy in Kano State, Isah Auwal-Barde, has invented a robot that works with a robotic exoskeleton remote control. Exoskeleton remote control is a system of controlling...

Ebenezer Akakpo is an artist originally from Ghana but based in the United States. His passion for jewelry-making led him to Le Arti Orafe in Florence, Italy, where...

Meet Adissa Barry. She is a business owner in the State of Maryland, which reportedly had the second highest number of millionaires in 2020, according to an article...

While Black women win every day, it’s not every day they all have a common ancestry. On the African continent, Nigeria is lifting the continent’s name high while proving...

The daughter of a civil servant and a housewife, Fatou Bensouda grew up in the West African city of Banjul, the capital of Gambia. Her father, Omar Gaye...