Wednesday, November 03, 2010Starting Small, Thinking Big by Frank WebbAccording to the old adage, the best things come in small packages. Based on an increasing number of building projects within Africa and across the globe, the same message seems to be gaining ground in the realm of architecture.
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010Invoking the Goddess of Temperance in the Age of Kali by Saloni Sharma, Africa.comOne summer night in 2004, something unusual happened in the sleepy outskirts of my hometown of Lusaka. A woman named Evelyn gave birth to a healthy and animated baby girl, quietly and privately on the blue paisley rug in my parents’ living room. So you don’t jump to any conclusions, allow me to clarify this was not planned, nor desired. Evelyn had convinced my parents she was perfectly capable of working the six hour shift for that evening’s dinner party and would be happy to stay over so as not to walk the 2km back to her home late at night.
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Monday, November 01, 2010Powerful Businesswomen Collaborating in Rwanda and the United Statesby Jacqueline Adams, Africa.com Board of AdvisersFashion designer Nicole Miller knows a good thing when she sees it. Less than two months after she was first introduced to bangles and bracelets created by Rwandan women who work with Indego Africa, she launched what she called a “very personal collection” of the jewelry in her boutique in New York City’s chic Soho neighborhood.
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Friday, October 29, 2010Africa = Europe + US + China + Indiaby Justina Hierta, Africa.com Chief Operating OfficerMaps can really make us stop and say “wow!” When I was a child my social studies classroom had a map depicting Greenland and Africa as the same size. Was it really possible that a little country like Denmark could claim a territory as large as the continent of Africa? The answer of course was no, but only because the map turned out to be warped (literally) and grossly misleading.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010Angel Groups – a Solution for the Missing Middle in Africa?by Craig Mullett, President of Branison GroupAfrica has exciting growth prospects - favorable demographics combined with natural resources create tremendous business opportunities. International corporations and capital have focused on acquiring or funding larger African businesses to harness this growth, while non-profits have supported the micro-finance movement to assist budding entrepreneurs to start sustainable businesses. What has been severely lacking is risk capital that bridges the gap between the fledgling start-ups and large-scale businesses, the so-called “missing middle”. This has led to an initiative fostered by the World Economic Forum to tackle new ways of financing this small-medium enterprise (SME) finance gap. One potentially unexplored concept is to accelerate the formation of locally organized angel groups, a concept that is explored below.
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