Leadership

VENTURES AFRICA – Africa’s richest man Alhaji Aliko Dangote has donated $500,000 through the Dangote Foundation to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to support efforts at managing recent measles outbreak affecting many states in Nigeria. According to Business Day Nigeria, the donation was announced at the weekend in Lagos during a visit to the [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The South African President, Jacob Zuma, is scheduled to pay a one-day official visit to Nigeria on Tuesday in an effort to strengthen the relationship between the two countries. This was confirmed at the weekend by Sonni Yusuf, the Nigerian High Commissioner in South Africa. Trouble between the two nations started when [...]

Editor’s note: This piece was originally posted on Harvard Business Review By Justin Fox, author of The Myth of the Rational Market   VENTURES AFRICA – In Western business circles, Rwandan President Paul Kagame is widely regarded as a hero. The leader of the rebel army that put a halt to the massacre of the country’s Tutsi minority [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Africa’s leading forum for the technology-assisted learning industry, eLearning Africa, will on May 29th-31st be celebrating the rise of ‘Made in Africa’ tech solutions in Windhoek, Namibia, at the 2013 edition of its annual conference. Now in its eighth year, eLearning Africa will be bringing together a wide range of perspectives on [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto will be sworn-in today following their defeat of Raila Odinga in the presidential elections last month. The ceremony will be held at the 60, 000-capacity Moi International Sports Centre in Kasarani. The centre was already packed to the rafters with Kenyan citizens this morning. [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – US-based John Templeton Foundation Thursday announced former apartheid activist and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as the winner of the 2013 Templeton Prize, which is valued at $1.7 million. The Foundation said the award is for Tutu’s life-long work in advancing spiritual principles such as love and forgiveness which has helped to liberate [...]

Chinua Achebe, 16 November, 1930 – 22 March, 2013 The world has witnessed the passing of a literary titan and one of Africa’s greatest personalities. Professor Chinua Achebe might not have written about business, but his literary life and legacy are an inspiration for anyone who chooses to write about Africa. His pride in Igbo tradition [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Famed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died after a short illness at a US hospital, Associated Press confirmed on Friday. He was 82 years old. The news agency cited his publisher as the source of the sad news without disclosing the cause of death. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Achebe [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Prof. Muhammad Yunus has partnered the African Development Bank to launch the Holistic Social Business Movement (HSBM), a programme both say is a social business project for Africa. The AfDB and the Yunus Social Business have selected Uganda, Tunisia and Togo as the beneficiary countries for [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The International Women’s Day is a day of celebration and a day of challenge, often rolled into one. In realising how far we have come towards ensuring genuine equality of opportunity for women as for men, it becomes clear how far we still have to go. For every iconic female leader – a [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In a historic 2011 campaign, Kah Walla, an entrepreneur, activist and elected official in Cameroon, ran for the country’s Presidency. She was the country’s first female presidential candidate and she ran the ground-breaking ‘The Time is Now’ campaign as well as the Cameroon Ô’Bosso citizen movement to register voters and encourage electoral [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Telkom Foundation, in conjunction with Continuing Education at the University of Pretoria, today launched its Entrepreneurship Programme aimed at up-skilling 350 business-minded youth and women delegates in South Africa, to start and grow businesses. According to Telkom Foundation Head, Sarah Mthintso, “Entrepreneurship is an important vehicle towards job creation and it is for this [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – “If women want more rights than they got, why don’t they take it and stop talking about taking it.” A century after these words were uttered by Sojourner Truth, men and statistics are quick to point out that women have heed her words. Indeed, history is filled with stories, tales and wit [...]

“I’m a slow walker but I never walk backwards.” Abraham Lincoln   VENTURES AFRICA – Quitters never win. A sizeable number of the world’s most successful people have failed or had setbacks at one time or the other in their lives. Multi-billionaire, Richard Branson was dyslexic, President Bill Clinton was caught in an infidelity scandal, Ronaldo De Lima [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - Award-winning Guinean activist, Rainatou Sow is the founder and executive director of Make Every Woman Count (MEWC), an organisation that promotes women and girl’s rights by putting it at the heart of the continent’s socio-economic development strategy. Although, a resilient activist since the age of 12, Rainatou was inspired to create her own gender-based [...]