La Fourchette is a central Dakar specialty. The restaurant is full of Dakar’s social class and serves a completely enchanting menu. Many patrons come from all over the world but not just for the tourism. Instead the restaurant sees a growing group of foreign business people. It is an odd [...]
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A pop-up restaurant on Mount Kilimanjaro? A burgeoning South Africa Food and Wine Festival? Three new Guinea-Conakry restaurants in New York City? Ethiopian Peaberry Coffee flogged at Trader Joe’s? These and many other events are indicators of the intense and growing interest in Africa’s culinary arts. Put on your bib [...]
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The immigration officer stares anxiously at the Portuguese passport. It’s not an uncommon sight at Maputo’s International Airport as the country is increasingly seeing foreigners at its ports of entry with an interest in working in the country. Times have certainly changed since the early 1990s. Then, the country was [...]
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa held in Cape Town recently certainly delivered on its promise to be more than just another talk shop. The event saw record attendance from many of Africa’s power players and heads of state including South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan and Kenya’s [...]
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A pop-up restaurant on Mount Kilimanjaro? A burgeoning South Africa Food and Wine Festival? Three new Guinea-Conakry restaurants in New York City? Ethiopian Peaberry Coffee flogged at Trader Joe’s? These and many other events are indicators of the intense and growing interest in Africa’s culinary arts. Put on your bib [...]
Tired of staying within the four walls of a hotel? Africa.com has compiled a list of top five offbeat accommodation locations on the continent. Old Mac Daddy; SOUTH AFRICA There is nothing trashy about this trailer park. Set along a leafy mountain bike trail in a place called Elgin just outside [...]
To create power, the plug must match the outlet. An improper fit will at best do nothing and at worse cause unintended harm. The right fit; however, can create energy and light- yielding immeasurable results. The same is true for voluntourism. When a traveler visits a foreign country with the [...]
Catch Kaleta & ZoZo Afrobeat performing at SRBBrooklyn in Brooklyn, New York. This 13-piece orchestra is lead by famed director Leon Kaleta Ligan-Majekodumi. The musician has recorded and toured with Nigeria’s Fela Kuti’s Egypt 80 band, King Sunny Ade’s African Beats, and more recently with American artist Lauren Hill.
“She has spots”, was the warning from care takers at the orphanage. Elaine DePrince didn’t care. She had travelled more than 4300 miles (close to 7000 kilometers) from New Jersey to Sierra Leone to adopt a little girl named Mia, but when she was told her friend Michaela might never [...]
An American literature academic once told Chinua Achebe that after reading his critique of Joseph Conrad’s Hearts of Darkness, the academic understood Conrad’s book for the first time. This, despite the fact that the academic had been teaching the book for years! This anecdote captures what Achebe was all about. By deconstructing [...]
La Fourchette is a central Dakar specialty. The restaurant is full of Dakar’s social class and serves a completely enchanting menu. Many patrons come from all over the world but not just for the tourism. Instead the restaurant sees a growing group of foreign business people. It is an odd [...]
The immigration officer stares anxiously at the Portuguese passport. It’s not an uncommon sight at Maputo’s International Airport as the country is increasingly seeing foreigners at its ports of entry with an interest in working in the country. Times have certainly changed since the early 1990s. Then, the country was [...]
Two businessmen on their iPhones argue over Congolese economic policy at Le Café Conc, an expensive French restaurant in the middle of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) The businessmen – Joseph and Patrice – are small-scale investors from the city. They are sending emails to [...]
Three years ago, I arrived in the United States to attend Oberlin College in Ohio. I will graduate from Oberlin College, where I am a neuroscience major in May 2014. Since my arrival in the U.S. in 2010, Oberlin has been more than a home to me, even though it [...]
As our contributor Kurt Davis Jr. wrote last week, “the cell phone is ubiquitous in Africa.” Accordingly, the number of African apps in recent years has proliferated. While you may have heard of M-PESA or Ushahidi, here are five innovative African apps that you probably haven’t heard of. 1. Frontline [...]
On February 28th, Pope Benedict stepped down as pope. Now, Vatican City observers, 1.2 billion Catholics, the media, and bookies have all been left with one question–Who will be the next pope? We at Africa.com ask, will it be another African pope? In our slideshow below, we look at [...]
La Fourchette is a central Dakar specialty. The restaurant is full of Dakar’s social class and serves a completely enchanting menu. Many patrons come from all over the world but not just for the tourism. Instead the restaurant sees a growing group of foreign business people. It is an odd [...]
A pop-up restaurant on Mount Kilimanjaro? A burgeoning South Africa Food and Wine Festival? Three new Guinea-Conakry restaurants in New York City? Ethiopian Peaberry Coffee flogged at Trader Joe’s? These and many other events are indicators of the intense and growing interest in Africa’s culinary arts. Put on your bib [...]
The immigration officer stares anxiously at the Portuguese passport. It’s not an uncommon sight at Maputo’s International Airport as the country is increasingly seeing foreigners at its ports of entry with an interest in working in the country. Times have certainly changed since the early 1990s. Then, the country was [...]
The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa held in Cape Town recently certainly delivered on its promise to be more than just another talk shop. The event saw record attendance from many of Africa’s power players and heads of state including South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan and Kenya’s [...]
One of the themes discussed at this year’s WEF Africa conference is the need for infrastructure development. It is seen as the driver of economic growth, yet Africa has a long way to go in the sector. ABN’s Chris Bishop sat down with Trevor Manuel, South Africa’s Minister of the [...]
The African Union (AU) has earmarked a standby force for Africa as one of its key initiatives. ABN caught up with Zoli Kunene, chairman of defence equipment manufacturer Denel, for his views on how this would impact the company. ABN Digital Generic Player
South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan talks about how WEF Africa is building on from the World Economic Forum that was held in Davos this year. ABN Digital Generic Player
Rwanda’s Finance Minister Claver Gatete sat down with ABN’s Godfrey Mutizwa to share how Rwanda convinced foreign investors that it was a stable, innovate country in Africa. ABN Digital Generic Player
One of the challenges for trade in Africa has been lack of facilitation of inter trade among countries on the continent. South Africa wants to establish a free trade zone in Africa by 2017. South Africa’s Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davis is one of over 1,000 leaders from business, [...]
South Africa is leading the continent when it comes to economic competitiveness. That’s the finding of the 2013 Global Competitiveness Index released annually by the World Economic Forum. It ranks South Africa as 52 out of 144 countries. ABN’s Godfrey Mutizwa speaks with Christine Ramon, Chief Financial Officer at Sasol [...]
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