Senegal: Senegalese Designer Returns to 'Move Things a Little'

The opening of Senegalese designer Sophie Sy's store in Dakar is causing a stir among the local - and international - fashion set. Read more »

Guinea: Death Toll Mounts in Guinea Clashes

Inter-communal clashes in southern Guinea have claimed up to 40 lives and left more than 100 wounded, according to local radio reports. Read more »

Africa: Invest in Ourselves for Profit and Social Good - Elumelu

When President Barack Obama announced his administration's US$7 billion 'Power Africa' initiative in Tanzania this month, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist Tony Elumelu was… Read more »

Ghana: Inspiring Rural Communities Through Technology

In Ghana most girls are expected to go to a decent school, find a well-paying job, then seek out a husband - not many women pursue careers in male-dominated fields like computer… Read more »

Mali: Transforming a Country Through Rice

Aspen Institute 2013 New Voices Fellow Salif Romano Niang is the co-founder and chief impact officer of Malo, a company working to revolutionize the rice industry in Niang's home… Read more »

Ghana: Bringing African Voices to Children's Literature

The market for children's books in Africa is dominated by literature from outside the continent, much of which does not relate to the realities of African readers. This has… Read more »

Mali: Election Threatens to Exchange One Crisis for Another

Mali's forthcoming election risks being marred by such technical shortcomings, and with such a low rate of participation, that a new president could be deprived of the legitimacy… Read more »

Africa: Obama Visits Africa - U.S. Can Do Better

President Barack Obama was correct when he told business leaders in Tanzania this week that togther the United States and Africa have "an enormous opportunity to unleash the next… Read more »

Africa: Obama Visits Africa - an End to Paternalism

President Barack Obama has made a profound and impactful visit to Africa. Read more »

Africa: Power Sector is Ready for 'Stampede' of Investment - General Electric

The U.S.-based multinational General Electric, which points to a 100-year record of involvement in Africa, is one of the companies participating in the Power Africa initiative,… Read more »

South Africa: Outpouring Over Mandela Challenges Obama

Nearly half a century before this weekend's trip to South Africa by President Barack Obama, a visit by Robert F. Kennedy at the height of apartheid oppression was described by a… Read more »

Africa: Obama Commits to Boosting Trade, Jobs

U.S. President Barack Obama committed himself in Dakar Thursday to  both renewing and improving the legislation which gives qualifying African countries preferential access to… Read more »

West Africa: Call for U.S. to Back 'Sahel Freedom Fund'

The Sahel region of Africa, a wide expanse that spreads from Mauritania on the west coast to Somalia on the east - gets very little attention, except when the threat of Islamic… Read more »

Nigeria: Arik Air Stresses Quality Service and Safety, Chairman Says

The airline industry in Nigeria has faced many challenges in recent years, including the collapse of several airlines and a crash in Lagos a year ago that claimed 163 lives. As a… Read more »

Africa: Obama's Coming - So's the Navy & the Air Force

The citizens of Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania are about to be hit over the coming week with the full panoply of an American presidential visit. Read more »

Nigeria: How Diamond Bank Managed Turnaround & Expansion - CEO

When Alex Otti was appointed Group Managing Director/CEO of Diamond Bank in March 2011, he had spent more than two decades in the Nigerian banking sector, most recently as a senior… Read more »

Africa: President Obama's Schedule in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania

Edited excerpts from a White House briefing on the schedule of President Obama's visit to west, southern and east Africa from June 26 to July 2. The briefing was by Ben Rhodes,… Read more »

Africa: You Were Key in Setting Up Hague Court, Africa Told

On June 25 a number of important actors will convene in Dakar to discuss issues related to the International Criminal Court. Senegal is one of many African states that were early… Read more »

Nigeria: Knotty Cassava Tubers Can Change a Nation

When Mathius Karoni shops for bread at his local Park 'n' Shop supermarket, he's not thinking about the contribution he's making to Nigeria's national budget or to the farmers… Read more »

Nigeria: More Than Good Luck Needed to Foster Democracy

If governing Nigeria were easy, the country's last president, Umaru Musa Yar'adua, might not have disappeared from public view and proceeded to die in office, evidently from its… Read more »

Africa: Pulling Nigeria and Africa Towards Prosperity and Power - Moghalu

In his latest book, Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy's 'Last Frontier' Can Prosper and Matter, Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu declines to echo the breathless prose of… Read more »

West Africa: U.S. Offers Bounties for Information on Terror Suspects

The United States this week announced that for the first time it is offering substantial rewards for information about leaders of West African terrorist organizations. Read more »

Nigeria: Lowering Pesticide Exposure Risk With Mobile Phones

John Gushit from the University of Jos' department of science in Nigeria nearly lost his eye when herbicide in a syringe he'd been working with splashed into it. "Only speed saved… Read more »

Liberia: Energy, Regional Integration Will Fuel Growth - Finance Minister

Amara Konneh has been the chief coordinator of Liberia's development strategy since his appointment as Planning and Economic Affairs Minister in 2008, a role he continued after… Read more »

Africa: Learning Works Better When It's Done Together

Making a video is a learning experience, and it doesn't have to end up online. If you leave a group of children alone with a device that's connected to the Internet, they can teach… Read more »