Once upon a time in Africa, we were Africans — or tried to be

Dr. Wiebe Boer, Director of Strategy at Heirs Holdings and one of the editors of “Africans Investing in Africa”, with Dr. Ayo Ajayi, head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Africa at The Tony Elumelu Foundation’s launch of the “Africans Investing in Africa” book in Cape Town on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Africa meeting recently.

L-R: Mark Pearson, one of the editors of “Africans Investing in Africa”; Dr. Terence McNamee, Deputy Director of the Brenthurst Foundation;...

Irene Kiwia.

Irene Kiwia from Tanzania won Woman of the Year Africa award

 Africa Reconnect (http://www.africareconnect.com), a platform for women who have made remarkable contributions to the growth and development of the various nations in Africa has today awarded 11 Africans whose contributions to women empowerment in their countries is outstanding.

The award ceremony, which took place in Polokwane, Limpopo South Africa, concluded a two day empowerment conference themed “ Accelerating...

Tony O. Elumelu Founder and Chairman of Heirs Holdings.

Nigerian businessman Tony Elumelu continues to fly the African flag by promoting his philosophy of Africapitalism, which aims to drive growth and development through entrepreneurship and private sector growth. Using $100m of his own capital, he successfully launched an entrepreneurial programme that provides seed capital, mentorship and guidance to promote entrepreneurship throughout Africa.

Some investments via Heirs Holding, his...

Managing Director of DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Charles Brewer.

Although the number of foreign direct investments (FDI) fell by 8.4% in 2014, capital investment into Africa surged to US$128b, a year-on-year increase of 136%, according to the recently released EY 2015 Africa Attractiveness Survey and the average investment increased to US$174.5m per project, up from US$67.8m in 2013.

Charles Brewer, Managing Director of DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), says that this is...