Diaspora Community Online Business Platform Launches In Nigeria!
June 15, 2015 DiasporaConnex.com www.Diasporaconnex.com is proud to provide Nigerian businesses a unique opportunity to connect with a new and wider target audience of over 6 million Nigerians living in the diaspora. This platform offers an avenue to reach the Nigerian diaspora community, quickly, efficiently and at a very affordable cost. DiasporaConnex.com is a web-based community
Five Tips For Success By Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs
June 15, 2015 Being a young entrepreneur is difficult, no matter where you are from. But in Africa, the challenges are often far more emphasised. Resources, financing, mentorship and supporting services are even scarcer. Yet despite this, the continent’s youth unemployment is higher than elsewhere, and for many young Africans, entrepreneurship is less of a
Zimbabwe offers new exchange rate: $1 for 35,000,000,000,000,000 old dollars
June 12, 2015 Central bank discards local currency after years of hyperinflation which at one point reached 500,000,000,000% Zimbabweans will start exchanging “quadrillions” of local dollars for a few US dollars next week as President Robert Mugabe’s government discards its virtually worthless national currency. The southern African country started using foreign currencies including the US
Value of foreign investments in Africa at 5 year high
June 11, 2015 Foreign directCAPITAL INVESTMENT into Africa surged to US$128b in 2014, a five-year high, with the number of jobs created from FDI jumping 68% resulting in 188,400 new positions across Africa, according to EY’s 2015 Africa attractiveness survey. The survey found Africa’s share of foreign directINVESTMENT (FDI) projects fell 8.4% in 2014, but remained
AfDB Urges Action To Close Boardroom Gender Gap In Africa
June 8, 2015 Women make up just 14% of the boards of major African companies and urgent action is needed to close the gender gap, according to the African Development Bank (AfDB). “To break the ‘glass ceiling’ in Africa, we urgently need to bring women on corporate boards, which we can do by fast-tracking them
Why Africa’s youth should turn to entrepreneurship
June 8, 2015 Considering the depressed state of the formal job market in Africa, it’s a good thing that more and more youth in Sub-Saharan Africa are looking to entrepreneurship to secure their future. Young people on the continent are more upbeat about their ability to become entrepreneurs than their peers in any other region,
FIVE AFRICAN COUNTRIES THAT OFFER THE GREATEST INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN REAL ESTATE
June 6, 2015 Real estate remains a booming opportunity for Africa-focused investors for good reasons. The growth of Africa’s cities creates a demand for increased volumes of high-quality commercial and residential real estate. The rise of the urban middle class drives retail property development, particularly as modern shopping malls spread across the continent. A growing
Angry Ghanaian surgeon’s letter to the Spanish Embassy
The Deputy Head of Mission Embassy of Spain Accra, Ghana 26th April 2015 Dear Sir: I applied for a short-term visa to attend a medical conference in Barcelona from 26th April to 29th April 2015 and by your response dated 22nd April 2015 I had been denied an entry visa to your country. As was
Solar piracy: A thriving new career for entrepreneurial Zimbabweans combating the lack of jobs in their country
June 3, 2015 Using laptops connected to small solar panels the size of an A5 notebook, youths now litter the streets of Harare selling pirated music and games Nigel Mavhengere’s “street office” is a laptop, cardboard table and a portable 75-watt solar panel. He’s selling pirated music and installing mobile phone applications for some of
5 Profitable Africa Business Ideas For The Diaspora
June 3, 2015 Millions of Africans are living in the Diaspora, but only a very tiny fraction is developing profitable Africa business ideas. This is tragic. Africa is now widely perceived as the world’s second fastest growing economy and the last global market frontier holding a huge pool of opportunities, but too many Africans are