Stories Collection

  1. A lot has changed in the Nigerian financial services industry during the past two dec...
  2. This is an important time for Uganda. The country has made steady progress since the ...
  3. They start off as harmless little grass-hoppers living solitary lives--until the rain...
  4. WHERE WE HAVE HOPE By Andrew Meldrum [pounds sterling]17.99 John Murray IS...
  5. AB Guide to African Currencies COUNTRY CURRENCY [pounds s...
  6. Mauritius is banking on a concerted effort to lobby friendly European countries in or...
  7. Now it is official and the world can be told about it: Africans are proud to be Afric...
  8. Mozambique's economic recovery over the past decade can be attributed to a number of ...
  9. In a plot resembling a thriller movie, three oil tankers operating in Nigerian and Gh...
  10. When, on September 15, South Africa announced that it would recognise the Saharawi Ar...
  11. For African leaders in some of the worst food-starved regions of the continent, the b...
  12. I write in response to your July 2004 issue. In his 2001 book, The Essential Drucker,...
  13. MANAGERS NOT MBAs A HARD LOOK AT THE SOFT PRACTICE OF MANAGING AND MANAGEMENT DEVE...
  14. The Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) is the latest African organisation to seek financia...
  15. Sudan's Darfur region on the eastern border with Chad is in the international headlin...
  16. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN AFRICA By Ibulaimu Kakoma and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza [p...
  17. SCRIBBLING THE CAT TRAVELS WITH AN AFRICAN SOLDIER By Alexandra Fuller [po...
  18. While oil sector attention rightly continues to focus on deepwater developments in th...
  19. South African sport is in a mess and needs a tough business approach to put it right....
  20. TAFFETAS Most Records Cat: MOST1002 Every once in a while a group of music...
  21. According to Mark Tanton, assistant project manager of the United Nations Development...
  22. For centuries it was a closely guarded secret, but now the cat is out of the bag and ...
  23. Farouk Jiwa, the founder of Honey Care from Kenya, has been selected as one of the wo...
  24. The announcement in late September that the US administration was to lift its remaini...
  25. Despite significant economic liberalisation over the past decade, capital controls ar...
  26. PURPLE HIBISCUS By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [pounds sterling]12.99 Fourth Esta...
  27. On October 24, some 4.7m Tunisians went to the polls to elect their President and Mem...
  28. President Ben Ali outlined his vision for the next five years in a 21-point manifesto...
  29. The union between the former colonial territory of Tanganyika and the archipelago sta...
  30. WHAT WE'VE LOST By Graydon Carter [pounds sterling]12.99 Little, Brown ISB...
  31. Most Africans think of Kenya as a green country--but that is only because few ever vi...
  32. POOR PEOPLE'S KNOWLEDGE PROMOTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ...
  33. I am responding to African Business' August/September cover story 'Formula for Africa...
  34. With Africa operating in an increasingly competitive global economy, one of the most ...
  35. AB Guide to African Currencies COUNTRY CURRENCY [pounds sterling] ...
  36. The Ghanaian government's decision to take full control of Ghana Airways marks yet an...
  37. VOLONTANY RAJERY Label Bleu Cat: LBLC2592 Germain Randrianrisoa, known...
  38. With the exception of coffee, the prices commanded by Africa's cash crops--such as co...
  39. A major hurdle to Africa's growth in trade has been the protectionist agricultural po...
  40. After years of wrangling and indecision, work is finally set to begin on Namibia's Ku...
  41. WHAT I TELL YOU THREE TIMES IS TRUE By Ian Parker [pounds sterling]14.99 Libra...
  42. Foreign workers in Mauritius now number some 22,000, among whom 10,850 are Chinese, 7...
  43. When President Bingu wa Mutharika took up the reins of power in May, many feared that...
  44. The latest addition in a growing arsenal of non-lethal weapons to combat the scourge ...
  45. Since last year's horrific terrorist attacks in Casablanca, there has been a notable ...
  46. Your 'Formula for Africa's Rapid Growth' article (African Business Aug/Sept issue) po...
  47. THE END OF THE LINE HOW OVERFISHING IS CHANGING THE WORLD AND WHAT WE EAT By C...
  48. Celtel International, the leading pan-African mobile communications group, with over ...
  49. He has been called the 'new face of American politics', 'a rising star in the Democra...
  50. There are many in the oil and gas industry who believe that the current price of crud...
  51. THE BIRTH OF PLENTY HOW THE PROSPERITY OF THE MODERN WORLD WAS CREATED. Willia...
  52. September 1st, 2004 -- Western Union Financial Services, Inc., together with its subs...
  53. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SMALLPOX By Ian & Jennifer Glynn [pounds sterling]17...
  54. Our March 2004 Cover Story, Africa's Top Companies, was such a hit with our readers--...
  55. In business, management is everything. Good management can turn even a lemon of a com...
  56. The economy of the Eastern Cape, South Africa's poorest province, will take a R500m h...
  57. Last August, Kenyan police used teargas and even live bullets to break-up demonstrati...
  58. In mid July Sir Edward Clay--the British High Commissioner to Kenya gave a fiery spee...
  59. Prior to Mauritius' independence in 1968, the colonial power, Great Britain, divested...
  60. THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS THE BATTLE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY By Daniel Yergin &...
  61. THE DUMBEST MOMENTS IN BUSINESS HISTORY BY ADAM HOROWITZ AND THE EDITORS OF KBUSIN...
  62. Lauded as a "blessing" by the government and lambasted as "the prize nobody w anted" ...
  63. Together with the Maldives, Cape Verde expects to be reclassified as a medium develop...
  64. MWANA MOLOKAI PAPA WEMBA AND VIVA LA MUSICA 1977-1997 Sterns STCD3019-20 S...
  65. I enjoyed your last issue very much, and would like to reflect on some of the points ...
  66. One of the main themes of the Nigerian government's programme of economic reform has ...
  67. THE ART OF IFE A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE AND DATABASE Frank Willett (with Barbar...
  68. THE END OF OIL By Paul Roberts [pounds sterling]17.95 Bloomsbury ISBN 0-74...
  69. As we were going to press, members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) were locked ...
  70. AFRICAN FOLKLORE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA EDITED BY PHILIP M PEEK AND KWESI YANKAH [po...
  71. More than two years of wrangling over the fate of South African-based Energy Africa h...
  72. Signs of normality are beginning to return to Somalia--which has been wrecked by civi...
  73. International trade and official aid policies--vital in promoting sustainable develop...
  74. The most perplexing fact regarding Ed Fagan's lawsuit is that it is attempting to gai...
  75. Despite its oil riches, there seems little prospect of Africa taking control of its o...
  76. I have just finished reading the June edition of your magazine African Business, one ...
  77. On the highways and byways of Johannesburg, Nairobi, Mogadishu, Dakar and other Afric...
  78. For the last three years, the African Development Bank (ADB) has published an invalua...
  79. Operating throughout West Africa, Ecobank has built an enviable reputation amongst it...
  80. This is another fine mess you've gotten us into, Stanley," as Oliver Hardy famously u...
  81. I am an African American businessman residing in Cleveland, Ohio in the US. For some ...
  82. AB Guide to African Currencies COUNTRY CURRENCY [pounds ...
  83. The tourist trade, a major source of foreign exchange in some African countries is no...
  84. The fighting in Sudan's western region of Darfur began in February 2003 when groups o...
  85. At the stroke of a pen, the South African Council on Higher Education (CHE) has negat...
  86. The public sector is the largest formal employer of labour in Africa. On average, 60%...
  87. President Museveni opened the ADB's annual meeting by saying that it is now over 40 y...
  88. With large immigrant communities settling in the Washington and New York areas in rec...
  89. Privatisation in South Africa is officially dead, at least for the rest of this year....
  90. Set in the welcoming and relaxing city of Maputo, the African Economic Summit (AES), ...
  91. During the summer months of June, July and August, Europe goes sports mad. There are ...
  92. In 1994, I was suddenly asked by the publisher, Afif Ben Yedder, to abandon my duties...
  93. The public face of a power struggle for presidential succession might have been behin...
  94. It was interesting to read about the number of Zimbabwean white farmers who have move...
  95. With the collapse of Somalia's central government in 1991, the Republic of Puntland u...
  96. GLOBAL CORRUPTION REPORT 2004 [pounds sterling]15.99 Transparency International/Pl...
  97. Botswana, better known as a treasure trove of diamonds, is now knocking at another we...
  98. Eldoret, in Kenya, was once just a sleepy backwater town in an upcountry farming comm...
  99. KONGO SIGUI THE SUPER RAIL BAND OF BAMAKO Indigo Cat: LBLC2581 Both Sa...
  100. As we reported in the April issue of African Business, the East African Customs Union...
  101. I am a teenager who has just completed a number of 'O' level courses. As I await my r...
  102. The UN Development Programme, (UNDP), the world body's social and economic engine, se...
  103. I discovered your reputable magazine only a year ago and have been glued to it ever s...
  104. Kenya's economy has some way to go to reach the targets set by government in 2002. Do...
  105. Most of us are familiar with the Biblical parable, warning us not to criticise the sp...
  106. A dream shared by two young African business executives will became solid reality whe...
  107. The 14th pan-African Economic Summit, arranged by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in M...
  108. Little seems to change in Cameroon. Oil production continues to decline and the count...
  109. While wide coverage has been given to the impact of civil unrest in Cote d'Ivoire upo...
  110. The Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria (FCT), with its unspoiled environment, rapid...
  111. MOVERS AND SHAKERS THE BRAINS AND BRAVADO BEHIND BUSINESS Foreword by Robert H...
  112. Throughout the 1990s, major counters were the rage. The expanding blue chip market cr...
  113. THE DEBT TRAP IN NIGERIA TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE DEBT STRATEGY Edited by Ngozi O...
  114. During the colonial period, the construction of railways across the African continent...
  115. Venture capitalists are by nature nervous creatures. But they really start hopping ab...
  116. SOUTH AFRICA As one of the most developed African countries, South Africa's teleco...
  117. The African Heads of State and Government Implementation Committee (HSGIC) of NEPAD a...
  118. Water and sanitation are critical elements in the poverty reduction strategy of the A...
  119. Telecommunications in Africa has the potential to leapfrog the continent past older t...
  120. Aseven-year-old share portfolio whiz kid is making a laughing stock of South Africa's...
  121. The World Bank recently approved a $408.69m financial package to assist the West Afri...
  122. THE GUITAR AND GUN VARIOUS ARTISTS Earthworks STEW50CD The history of ...
  123. For Africans living in the West, nothing is more irk-some than the constant diet of n...
  124. Only one or two families out of 10 in sub-Saharan Africa have bank accounts compared ...
  125. Seychelles' President France Albert Rene seized power through a coup d'etat in 1977, ...
  126. Botswana has retained its number one position in Africa as the 'most globalised' coun...
  127. The IMF has spent the past 20 years trying to persuade African governments to cut bac...
  128. The lack of internal transport links in Nigeria has long hampered the development of ...
  129. Long before the concept became fashionable, this magazine had been arguing that the o...
  130. The Kenyan Chapter of the global anti-corruption NGO, Transparency International rece...
  131. Globalisation is a chimera--it changes its appearance from whatever vantage point you...
  132. Tanzania's Central Bank--The Bank of Tanzania (BoT)--reported that in October 2003 th...
  133. Dakar, in Senegal, is the first major port-of-call from Europe and is well placed for...
  134. The African continent has long played host to a number of 'collapsed states'. Sierra ...
  135. New land restitution tremors are shaking southern Africa. In Namibia the government, ...
  136. The halt of progress in the peace talks between the Sudanese government and the south...
  137. While ferrochrome is not regarded in the same league as platinum, gold or diamonds, i...
  138. An energetic economic discourse is developing between the South Africa's Gauteng prov...
  139. The development of the Chinguetti and Tiof offshore oil fields, as well as spurring e...
  140. African Business: Is Malabo equipped to deal with the greatly increased commercial ac...
  141. The first year of President Olusegun Obasanjo's second term has been marked by greats...
  142. Zimbabwe's 2004 national budget confirmed what most citizens already know--the econom...
  143. Tanzania's huge informal sector has largely been ignored by the authorities. Now ther...
  144. I write with reference to your cover story, Africa's hunt for foreign investment by A...
  145. AB Guide to African Currencies COUNTRY CURRENCY [po...
  146. The South African government appears locked in combat against the country's mining in...
  147. Volvo is about to launch an entry-level model with what they claim is a revolutionary...
  148. Zambia has been saying what many African countries would like to say but don't becaus...
  149. Equatorial Guinea has been one of the leading lights in the growth of the offshore oi...
  150. Car manufacturers have long been aware of a problem that many people face when choosi...
  151. Big changes often have small beginnings. 2003 saw a number of small beginnings that c...
  152. BLACK, WHITE AND CHROME THE US AND ZIMBABWE 1953-1998 BY ANDREW DEROCHE [p...
  153. The decision of the IMF to unfreeze loans to Kenya has been welcomed by the internati...
  154. The 2003 East African Safari Rally travelled back in time to replicate the sense of a...
  155. KEKELE CONGO LIFE Sterns Cat: STCD1097 It is said that every musical g...
  156. Equatorial Guinea has achieved the astonishing record as the fastest growing economy ...
  157. Zimbabwe is Malawi's most important trading partner, and any change to the rules gove...
  158. 2003 has been another dramatic year for Africa's economies. Democracies have deepened...
  159. While the ports of Bata and Malabo were able to serve the import and export needs of ...
  160. Ten years after achieving majority rule, South Africa's economy is healthier than eve...
  161. How nice to see my President Mwai Kibaki being given such a warm welcome in Washingto...
  162. For thousands of years, the San people of southern Africa have been custodians of a p...
  163. AFRICA: ANOTHER SIDE OF THE COIN NORTHERN RHODESIA'S FINAL YEARS AND ZAMBIA'S NATI...
  164. Faced with the spiraling costs of health care, Botswana's leading industries are goin...
  165. South African firm Energy Africa is one of the very few independent private sector Af...
  166. In modern times, the Sahara Desert has been more of a barrier than a conduit for trad...
  167. Another year, another scam--or, in fact, thousands of scams in an 'industry' that nev...
  168. I was delighted to read that, at last, cheaper air fares are coming to Africa. Your c...
  169. The Japanese government has pledged to provide 1bn dollars over five years in new gra...
  170. NKRUMAH AND GHANA BY KOFI BUENOR HADJOR [pounds sterling]14.25 Africa World Pr...
  171. The economy of Equatorial Guinea has changed out of all recognition over the past few...
  172. African Business: What role does your bank play in Equatorial Guinea? Joseph Celesti...
  173. AB Guide to African Currencies COUNTRY CURRENCIES STG ...
  174. South Africa is one of Africa's most liberal countries as far as bin and genetic plan...
  175. After a fierce, sustained and hugely expensive legal battle, the South African govern...
  176. Hardly a week goes by without news of African delegations, often led by heads of stat...
  177. President Mwai Kibaki, First Lady Lucy Kibaki and a large Kenyan delegation were give...
  178. Prolonged drought in eastern, central and southern Tanzania has raised fear over food...
  179. If all goes according to plan, Mauritania should be producing oil by 2005/2006 with t...
  180. Thanks to the success of the Indian economy over the past decade and a gradual proces...
  181. BY TONY HODGES 12.95 [pounds sterling] African Issues ISBN 0-85255-874-0 This book...
  182. For the international businessperson, or for that matter for anybody involved in inte...
  183. The best known figure in Nigerian oil politics, the Presidential Special Adviser on P...
  184. It all depends on which side of this particular coin you happen to be standing. If yo...
  185. Egypt's planned trajectory into the future of free markets and a liberalised economy ...
  186. Then a textile manufacturing and exporting explosion began to change everything. Just...
  187. BY DAN SMITH 11.99 [pounds sterling] Earthscan ISBN 1-84407-029-8 In the introductio...
  188. The long awaited unveiling of VW's fifth generation Golf, due to hit showrooms worldw...
  189. TULEAR NEVER SLEEPS VARIOUS ARTISTS Earthworks Cat STEW 49CD This groundbreaking a...
  190. AFRICAN TEXTILES COLOUR AND CREATIVITY ACROSS A CONTINENT By John Gillow 39.95 [pound...
  191. Unpredictable weather conditions and high cost of farm inputs have forced many Africa...
  192. Although the Zimbabwean government has clearly stated its desire to move most of the ...
  193. There is a well-worn adage in the marketing world: 'Selling your products without adv...
  194. BY SOPHIE WARNE 13.95 Bradt Travel Guide ISBN 1-84162-073-4 In the introduction to t...
  195. Explaining why the world's metals producers thought highly enough of the southern Afr...
  196. An environmental storm is brewing in Namibia over government plans to dam the River K...
  197. Platinum is currently the hottest and most expensive of industrial metals. Liquid-ric...
  198. The Gambia finally seems to be seeing the benefits of years of painful economic refor...
  199. Malaria has long been Africa's for gotten killer, a disease that receives little atte...