Pipeline-Builders: China-Africa Youth Contests Bet on Founders, Not Factories
Profiles - Women in Business & Rising Stars · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Most China-Africa cooperation is measured in tonnes and kilometres. A growing slice is measured in founders. According to China's foreign...
Building and industry reset in Kenya — leadership lesson what comes next for investors
The hardest test of a reform is not whether one minister can announce it, but whether an institution can execute it after the announcement fades. Kenya's building sector faces that test now. Regulators have intensified enforcement of the National Building Code while...
Wicknell Chivayo: The Continental Deal Maker from Southern Africa
How Zimbabwe's Most Ambitious Entrepreneur Built a Pan-African Business Empire In the landscape of African entrepreneurship, few figures command attention quite like Sir Wicknell Chivayo. From his beginnings as a security guard in Harare to becoming a businessman with...
John Arufandika: The Emerging Technologies Leader Powering Africa’s AI Future
Aptiva AI’s founder receives a prestigious 2025 LIST Award, marking a defining moment for African-first artificial intelligence. A Defining Moment for African AI When John Arufandika walked onto the stage at the 2025 LIST Awards in Harare to receive the Emerging...
Zimbabwe’s Tobacco, Zimbabwe’s Pride: Inside the 96-Year Stewardship of the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association
The auction floor wakes early. In the cool light before buyers crowd the lines, graders nod through stacks of flue-cured leaf and a district councillor from the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association (ZTA) answers a grower’s question about this week’s prices. The scene could be...
Parish Development Model in Uganda — leadership lesson the business case for investors
Uganda’s Parish Development Model will be decided by parish-level execution, not its launch. Why repeatable institutional capacity is the real test to watch.
Ethiopia’s GERD first power — value-chain opening the business case across East Africa
GERD’s first power is a story of institutional execution, not one leader: what Ethiopian Electric Power’s decade-long delivery teaches African operators.
Uganda oil FID in Uganda — value-chain opening how the market shifts across the region
Uganda’s oil FID was an institutional alignment, not one leader’s signature; the real test is regulatory execution capacity through delivery.
East Africa’s PAPSS payment system launch — leadership lesson — for regional operators
PAPSS launches in Accra. The leadership lesson is institutional: the patient cross-border coordination capability behind a pan-African settlement system, not
Twitter vs. Buhari: Lessons on Digital Diplomacy from the Standoff
The standoff between Twitter and the Nigerian President, Prof. Muhammadu Buhari, resulting in its four months temporary ban in Nigeria is a good lesson as put in a gunslinging proverb that says, “in a standoff, never pull a gun on a man’s forehead, forgetting that he has a dagger on your balls”.
Post-Covid New Normal Priorities for CEOs In Africa
Middle East, Africa, and the World at large, now have a new normal of economic activity because of the Covid19 Pandemic, and new thought on ways of leading businesses into profitability have emerged. A Mckinsey study revealed that the pandemic has both revealed and...
Reconfiguring Leadership for Progress and Profitability
Change in leadership is necessary, and changing leadership helps in the development process of an institute and businesses. Anderson has delved into the history of Change Leadership and links the early origins to the dissatisfaction of leaders during the late 1980s...
Strengths of the Chinese Economic and Political Model
The Chinese model (socio-economic and political system) is about leadership – visionary, strategic, technocratic and meritocratic leadership. It is driven by a long-term shared national vision, strategic thinking, strategic planning, effective implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Credibility Diplomacy: A Necessity for Pan-Africanism
In order for Pan-Africanism to work, there is need for Credibility Diplomacy. Simply defined, Credibility comprises the objective and subjective components of the believability of a source or message. Credibility is one of the greatest emotional assets that has seen...
Africa’s New York and Washington in the Desert
In March 2015, the Egyptian government announced the construction of a "New Administrative Capital", that marking the beginning of a new dawn of the historically great nation of Egypt. This is the first even in Africa, and it coming from the ancient dominators of...
Creating an Egypt Fund like Norway
What if Egypt creates an Egypt Fund just like the Norway Fund in order to have people centred national development and resource beneficiation? Just a thought. At present, Oil, Renewable Energy, Construction, and Agriculture are the economic pillars, with mega...
Ethiopia’s Private telecom licence — leadership lesson the business case for investors
Ethiopia’s first private telecom licence is a leadership case study: institutional capability, disciplined risk pricing and execution over personality.
Kenya’s Lamu Port opens — leadership lesson how the market shifts for African business
Lamu Port’s first berth is a lesson in institutional execution: judge the bodies behind it by repeatable delivery and maintenance, not by the launch.
South Sudan 4G launch in South Sudan — leadership lesson what comes next for investors
Zain’s 4G launch in South Sudan on 8 March 2021, read as a leadership test: institutional execution over personality, and repeatable capability over headlines.
First mobile-money licence in Somalia — leadership lesson why it matters for investors
Somalia’s first mobile-money licence tests whether a founder-built payment economy can become an institution that executes reliably beyond individual drive.
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