There is a new wave of capital flocking into the market that includes [Read More]

Speculating - buying with the hope to sell again quickly at a significant profit - is not property investment," explains Dr du Toit. [Read More]

In Africa, the term “investor” which was once attributed to foreigners from the West and Asia has gained a new meaning. [Read More]

Does Gospelneurship violate the very basic principle of legitimate expectation if it offers amorphous utility that cannot be challenged in any court of law? [Read More]

There are basically 3 categories of immigrants: the skilled, the unskilled and the refugee. Clearly, we should target only the first category. [Read More]

The new platform will enable The Nigerian Stock Exchange have the fastest trading engine in Africa [Read More]

In many ways Africa holds the same potential that China did 20 years ago. A large rural population is moving to the cities, landing jobs with higher incomes, and starting to enjoy discretionary spending. Demand is growing, and foreign direct investment has soared. [Read More]

It is shameful that despite our vast riches as a continent, our leaders under the auspices of the AU recently met at a new headquarters built for them by foreigners as a “donation.” [Read More]

There is need to deliver services to the people by building schools, universities, hospitals, health centers including building infrastructure for the 10 states. [Read More]

There are only about 100 km of paved roads in South Sudan – Only one percent of people in South Sudan have access to electricity, and its cost is among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa. [Read More]

We are building on our history, and are only at the beginning of the long, winding and challenging road of development. [Read More]

There are still opportunities in the region in terms of fast moving consumer goods as long as we find reliable on the ground partners. [Read More]

An ordinary Zimbabwean can benefit directly include as an investor, employee or a member of a community in which a company operates. [Read More]

Africa is home to 60% of the world’s arable land, and Sub Saharan Africa shall be the only region in the world that shall accelerate in terms of growth over the next three years. [Read More]

To understand Africa, you must have your boots on the ground and you must believe in the story. What I can tell you is that this is a continent of opportunity. [Read More]

Active participants will be the first to understand which countries, sectors and businesses provide the best opportunities. [Read More]

Hardly a week goes by without another global CEO extolling the virtues of the African investment opportunity. [Read More]

Structural adjustments have enabled countries position themselves in the global map. [Read More]

The future of the world lies in Asia but the Americans will not go down without a fight. [Read More]

Entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills should be availed to young people at an early age [Read More]

Africa's Private Sector gurus and Heads of State should marshal the necessary will and seize the opportunity to put the continent on a transformational path. [Read More]

Mauritius will have to be promoted both as a seaside resort brand and as a shopping brand – a major strategic change that would take at least five years to take hold. [Read More]

No other Regional Economic Community in Africa has achieved such a milestone. [Read More]

The quest for one market may run into hurdles if some provisions in the common market protocol are not brought at par with national goals [Read More]

The government has no business telling Ghanaians to patronize local produce and industries whilst shortchanging indigenous companies [Read More]

Using time to ride through the volatility and using the average long term returns of the market to get compounded returns is the best way to reach our goals. [Read More]

Most analysts agree that China will break away from the US and have the world's largest and most influential economy by 2025. [Read More]

Successful entrepreneurship is a requisite ingredient in the African and indeed the global economy-generating employment, growth and international competitiveness. [Read More]

Japan should engage Africa in a business oriented way as China does [Read More]

With the much awaited ratification of the EAC common market, ATI anticipates an increase in demand for both political and credit risk insurance [Read More]

All stakeholders in this process ought to move beyond theory and begin to work swiftly and consultatively to establish a clear 3-5 year action plan [Read More]

This so-called foreign Aid is nothing but an attempt to create an utter dependency, corrupt our people and destabilize our family institution. [Read More]

President Koroma still echoes the typical African leadership approach: We have this mineral, that mineral and we will give tax benefits, and so forth. [Read More]

We Sierra Leoneans know in our hearts that “we have no business being poor.” [Read More]

How many other development initiatives have produced a return of over $5 billion with an investment of $18 million? AGOA is working for Africa and America. [Read More]

Our corporate sector must depart from the age-old anti-market mentality of the socialisation of losses coupled with the privatisation of gains [Read More]

Victims are holding on tighter to the little money in their wallets [Read More]

If blacks divert their resources into the spiritual foundation, what’s wrong with it? Who are we to judge? [Read More]

A re-evaluated AGOA initiative will respect rules of free trade as opposed to the current setting where a bigger market dictates to weaker markets [Read More]

Black people would rather build a church but cannot agree on having a community bank, scholarship fund, renovate schools, improve the village market or create jobs for local high school graduates [Read More]

With close cooperation in promoting investment, we would always take our region to greater heights of achievement, becoming more dynamic and more competitive as we step into our future. [Read More]

The real poverty, long term, for an African child born today is to be isolated from the world, due to lack of knowledge, access to the internet and hence access to network, to opportunities. [Read More]

African countries have received very little industrial investments due to distorted and incoherent national industrial investment policies. [Read More]

Bailout African style will ruin our ICU-based economies. [Read More]

Underdeveloped infrastructure, limited healthcare and educational services, and poor institutional frameworks make African countries less competitive in the global marketplace [Read More]

Our prosperity is linked inextricably to the maintenance of a strong World Economy, an open international trading system, and stable Global Financial Markets. [Read More]

Will the current crop of leaders deliver the dream COMESA that will serve the interests of 400 million Africans? COMESA should help implement a new economic model that avoids reliance on the World Bank and IMF prescriptions. [Read More]

SIFE Kenya has nurtured over 2000 young leaders since inception and implemented an estimated 300 projects. It is a very competent pool from which corporates can draw their workers from [Read More]

As physical systems accelerate, oscillations become more frequent while its magnitude falls. Eventually prices break out of the exponential trend and a new system is born as another dies. [Read More]

The management team must learn to act instead of react. That is the divergence between flanking successfully and unsuccessful fighter brands. [Read More]

Economic recovery and a stable and growing economy require that governments refrain from redistributing the income of successful and responsible businesses and desist from manipulating the monetary system. [Read More]

We are giving a concession of forty thousand acres to the Qatar government to grow corn for their market. Why not give four thousand Kenyan farmers ten acres each to grow this corn? [Read More]

The Uganda Government cannot respect and care for its people and allows those in authority to manipulate issues and satisfy their own selfish interests without any care for the interest of the masses. [Read More]

Why should we fear the future? There is a song whose lyrics affirm that the future is ours to make. As such it is upon us to map out our destiny in a manner that we should have no reason to fear the future. It is when we let others shape our future that we fear the future. [Read More]

Financial and non-financial institutions are falling like dominoes in a pack. There is much fear in the environment and hoarding of monies. Just like the jungle situation, we now have to deliberate to make a decision. [Read More]

Due to absence of strong consumer protection laws, goods and service providers are operating in ways that put the least care to consumers [Read More]

Borrowing and saving to invest should not be looked at as mutually exclusive.One can save, borrow and invest at the same time. [Read More]

History and experience have taught us that if we want to shun want, we must plan, source for capital and invest wisely. Financial liberty, just like any other kind, is won solely by risking or more precisely calculated risking. [Read More]

Mauritians have always been scared of foreigners. We want their money but we are worried that they might take over. Look at Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai and see how many foreigners live, work, play and retire in these countries. They must be doing something right! [Read More]

If you have to listen to a professional, make sure you choose one that takes care of your long term goal rather than fulfill their own short term ambitions. [Read More]

The regional transport sector must be revamped if East African countries have to take advantage of expanding markets in the Greater Lakes region [Read More]

SIFE projects are designed to teach financial literacy, business ethics, success skills, environmental sustainability, entrepreneurship and market economics. [Read More]

The call to harmonize tax incentives also comes on the back of growing pressure by Uganda’s private sector on government to create Export Processing Zones (EPZs). Kenya and Tanzania have EPZs, areas where exporters enjoy tax breaks and other incentives. [Read More]

The youth in particular the SWAPO Party Youth League (SPYL) are up in arms with their elders on the hefty donation of the US Millennium Challenge Account granted to the Land of the Brave. [Read More]

No society can durably force economic development by inflating investment through credit expansion unbacked by a parallel increase in voluntary saving. [Read More]

Investors are much better off holding their funds in cash and fixed assets that appreciate in value than investing in the stock exchange. [Read More]

Could African markets be facing their own crisis? Are the effects of the US crisis more direct than anticipated? [Read More]

Debt can be cancelled with the stroke of the pen, but poverty cannot be cancelled with the stroke of the pen. [Read More]

Recent data shows that Africa receives more official development assistance than foreign direct investment. [Read More]

The real estate industry is deeper than what most tertiary level brokers and agents hold out to the public. [Read More]

It has become questionable whether the wakes are actually for the benefit of the dead or an activity structured and emotionally pursued for the unsuspecting respondent to benefit the living. [Read More]

Search worldwide: To avoid having all your eggs in the wrong basket at the wrong time, you should diversify. When you search worldwide, you find better bargains than when you monitor only one nation. You also benefit from more safety thanks to diversification. [Read More]

One of the most important steps to building a successful portfolio is properly dividing assets among different types of investments. The most important asset classes are stocks, bonds, and cash. [Read More]

However, let's remember that great civilizations such as; Roman Empire, Greeks, Egyptians, and Incas grew by infrastructure. [Read More]

Universities teach us to get jobs. However, what makes us outstanding is our determination and desire to settle for more than the ordinary. [Read More]

Knowing the nature and composition of the clientele is one thing. Locating them by geographical or spatial distribution is another. [Read More]

I blame Ethiopians in diaspora for the lack of communication with the Western world in showcasing the various types of investment opportunities Ethiopia has to provide to outside investors. [Read More]

The Mobitelea 'mystery' is a case of a thief investigating a thief [Read More]

Trust me, some of the politicians making noise already have their checks ready, or at least, a good fortune to subscribe on the last few days before closure. [Read More]

Many good things have happened in Africa in the last decade – but they are not, yet, noticed. Those who have noticed them are doing well [Read More]

These ‘exiles’ only make technical appearances in their rural homes during funerals of close relatives then ‘flee’ back to the city immediately after burial. [Read More]

African governments must ask investors to invest in sectors that will improve the living standards of Africans, empower Africans economically and generally lead to the growth of the continent. [Read More]

The debate on whether entrepreneurs are born or made has never ended. Emphasis is however placed on the ‘made’ factor [Read More]

It advisable that one consults to ensure that he understands his property’s true worth before transacting. The valuer will appraise the property objectively and independently. [Read More]

Clients who want to analyze commercial property need experienced professionals to perform due diligence as an integral part of an investment decision matrix. [Read More]

Landlords who opt to manage their own properties will in one way or the other incur costs similar to those incurred paying the agent. This is without counting the time that one will spend doing these duties. [Read More]

Why should Safaricom and Celtel be at each others neck when the untapped market for the cell phone is over 7 million subscribers? [Read More]

A Nairobi survey reveals that 60 percent of commercial property investors do not use professional property managers.Over 95 percent of Kenyan residential landlords opt to manage their own property. [Read More]

The choice to invest in residential or commercial property poses a dilemma to many investors. It is therefore important that a first time real estate investor studies the market. [Read More]

There are many people whose potential is unexploited because nobody has shown them how to exploit it. People need to be motivated. People need to be helped to bring out the best in them. People need an ideal link to the right direction. [Read More]

The African offspring has let their mama down by failing to integrate her daily chores into the modern economy. We have failed to adopt what we learn in modern schooling systems to our situation with a view of surfacing the hidden talents in our villages. [Read More]

Real estate today continues to attract fairly great interest in all democratic republics where citizens are allowed to own land. This coupled with inflationary trends forces land values to raise as it is "a diminishing resource." In this regard, it becomes very difficult for any real estate inves [Read More]

No pre-conceived limitations should be embrsced in regard to the use of power and technology. Rural industrialization will convert Eritrea's agricultural communities into balanced agro-industrial communities. [Read More]

If we continue carrying out business as usual, we will reap the same meager results we have always had. [Read More]

In a world where only governments and corporations are expected to “donate” jobs, it becomes understandable when villagers scoff at unemployed university graduates that hit the tarmac. [Read More]

East Africans will enjoy the benefits of a united market if the community facilitates a harmonized taxation policy that will lead to competitive prices. [Read More]

The competition between high technology brewers that currently pay huge amounts of tax and those that operate from backyards using pots, tins, drums and market by word of mouth will be interesting to observe. [Read More]

Huge populations in urban areas tend to promote a competitive approach to life thereby facilitating “business thinking.” [Read More]

The scramble for Africa’s oil has done little to promote development for the majority of Africans in the regions where oil is produced. Nowhere is the gap between oil wealth and development more evident than in Equatorial Guinea, where, this new wealth has generally not been used for the larger wel [Read More]

Send all those international NGOs packing for brainwashing Africans against the profit motive. How else will the so called poor fight poverty if somebody spends millions of dollars teaching them to hate profits? [Read More]

Discover your strength and sniff opportunities. Stop wallowing in a morass of self pity. East Africa is gradually opening up national boundaries. Africa is slowly moving to a one market Africa. Shun the village mentality and embrace a whole world of opportunities at your disposal. [Read More]