Africa

Turning the continent’s resources into prosperity.

Our annual survey of ideas and trends that will make an impact on business: Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Tyagi believe consumer credit should be made as...

There’s still a lot of opportunity, despite the continent’s slowing growth.

New innovators can change the competitive landscape.

Three policies that will support younger workers - and help scale promising economic opportunities.

From the postal service to the cost of broadband.

How winner-take-all dynamics affect local economies.

And how to fix it.

A unique approach.

Two brothers who founded a successful company in Côte d'Ivoire must make a decision about how to bring their daughter and niece-educated in Paris and...

90% of the global poor are now covered by a wireless signal.

It won't be able to rely on low-wage manufacturing.

Companies doing business in the developing world have to contend with the staggering human and financial costs of HIV infection—and most would agree that conventional approaches to controlling the epidemic aren’t working. In our experience in the labor-intensive mining industries of Russia, South Africa, and Botswana, we’ve seen infection rates among workers exceeding 90% in […]

The country’s future may hinge on much-needed reforms.

Should an entrepreneur focus on several countries or on the largest one?

Advice for the new head of the African Development Bank.

It’s about how teams perform under pressure.

Photography: Timothy Allen / Redux The Idea: Frustrated by Western ignorance about Africa, Ibrahim decided to take advantage of the continent’s enormous telecom opportunity himself. Among the challenges he faced was creating an infrastructure from scratch. As a native of Sudan who has spent most of my adult life in the West, I’ve always been […]

They have entrepreneurial zeal and a talent for problem solving.