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Roger Southall | University of the Witwatersrand   South Africa’s governing African National Congress has got itself into one hell of a pickle. The National Assembly is...

Wessel Lemmer, Senior Agricultural Economist | Absa The practice of cultivating grasses such as wheat, nearly 10,000 years ago, laid the foundations of today’s large...

Faith Kiboro | SMC University   The democratic ideal visualises a government in which supreme power is vested in the people. They exercise this power indirectly through...

The leaders of Tanzania and Uganda laid a foundation stone on Saturday for the construction of a $3.55 billion-crude export pipeline that would pump...

With 80 percent of votes counted from Friday's election, the 59-year-old former guerrilla leader had secured 98.66 percent.

STAR is expected to list by the end of September.

Rwandan voters queued in long lines on Friday to cast their ballots in a presidential election that incumbent President Paul Kagame is tipped to...

Rwandan voters queued in long lines on Friday to cast their ballots in a presidential election.

Nigeria will legalise currently outlawed mini refineries in the Niger Delta oil hub by the end of the year and supply them with crude...

Mills Soko | University of Cape Town South Africa is reeling from a string of scandals involving state owned enterprises and the Guptas, a family with...

Nelson Alusala | Senior Research Fellow, University of Pretoria President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has barely five months to save...

Nigeria is expected to emerge from recession this year, but threats to recovery remained elevated and the economy will not grow enough to reduce...

Keith Fenner | VP, Sage Enterprise Africa & Middle East Think back to the last time you attended a meeting with millennials. Did they seem...

Khomotso Molabe | Standard Bank With South Africa’s economy in its current precarious state, careful money management and next-stage, goals-based financial planning is more important...

Residents of Kailer village normally live to the rhythm of mooing cows and bleating goats. But over the past year, silence has reigned over...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the outlook remains challenging.

 At last count, unemployment in Kenya was running at around 11 percent of the workforce; for the young, those aged 15-24, it was twice...

Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong | University of Bath It’s been nearly two decades since the idea of a single currency for West Africa was first mooted....

Aubrey Hruby and Lexi Novitske argue that successful African entrepreneurs have to be data scientists

Sarah Colenbrander | University of Leeds Cities in sub-Saharan Africa are growing fast. Nigeria alone is projected to add 212 million urban dwellers by 2050, equivalent...