Friday, May 27, 2011Bobotie and Malva Pudding: South African Cuisine by Celia Muller, Cookbook ArchaeologyBobotie is associated with South Africa generally, but it was originally a Cape Malay dish. When I was in South Africa this summer, we went for a family lunch at a restaurant in the Bo Kaap, the Malay section of Cape Town.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011Private Equity Investing In Africa: Six Questions With Hurley Doddy Of Emerging Capital Partners—Part IIby Wilmot AllenIn this second of a two-part series, Hurley Doddy of Emerging Capital Partners discusses why certain investors argue over a possible lack of capital in sub-Saharan Africa, and more.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011Private Equity Investing In Africa: Six Questions With Hurley Doddy Of Emerging Capital Partners—Part I by Wilmot AllenFor a growing number of private equity investors and asset managers, Africa is no longer a secret. Recent events highlight the view that Africa will play an important role in the global economy.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011Ashoka Changemakers: Third World Planet—No Place to Call Homeby John Converse Townsend, Ashoka ChangemakersThe world’s population today is evenly split between cities and rural areas. Developed nations – boasting all the luxuries of modern life—are about three-quarters urban, while nearly half of the population in developing countries lives in densely packed, suffocating city settings.
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Monday, May 23, 2011The Africonomist: A Talk with Pat Devenishby The Africonomist Agro-industrial businesses in Africa are playing an increasingly important role in the global food supply chain as the cost and demand for commodities rise and as the world’s population expands.
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Friday, May 20, 2011Groot Constantia in South Africaby Rumit Mehta, Founder of Immersion JourneysAs a South African, I am blessed to represent the following statistic to you: “South Africa has the longest wine route in the world." Well if that didn’t put the seal on your South African trip, I don’t know what will!
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Thursday, May 19, 2011African Naturalist: The Life and Times of Rodney Carrington Woodby David Happold Rodney Wood was a remarkable man, a great naturalist who spent 50 years mainly in Nyasaland (now Malawi) studying and collecting mammals, birds, fish, insects, shells, and plants. After a good education, he turned his back on the formalities of life in England and became a cotton farmer in Africa.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011South Africa’s Municipal Electionsby Ambassador John Campbell , Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign RelationsOriginally posted on the Africa in Transition blog, former ambassador John Campbell of the Council on Foreign Relations writes about today's municipal elections in South Africa.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011A Man to Watch: Babatunde Fashola, Executive Governor of Lagos Stateby Jacqueline Adams, Africa.com Board of AdvisersThis May has been a pretty good month for Babatunde Fashola. Fresh from his re-election as executive governor of Lagos State, Nigeria’s business capital, Fashola won high praise in a profile in The Economist.
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Monday, May 16, 2011Chevron: Rethinking Development Partnershipsby Dennis Fleming, Chevron, Project Manager, Niger Delta Partnership InitiativePrivate corporations are driving a new model of partnerships for capacity building and development in Africa. The old way of doing this important work consisted largely of well-intentioned philanthropic investments. While that kind of contribution is still important, it is neither a sufficient nor sustainable approach to creating a prosperous long-term future for both society and business.
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