Dakar, in late March, looked less like a stage set for fashion than a test case for industrial ambition. RTS reported that Senegal hosted the African Sourcing and Fashion Week for the first time, with the government using the occasion to promote local cotton transformation and attract investment; the event drew visitors from more than a dozen African and European countries and nearly 90 exhibitors.
This one-stop financial services platform has significantly reshaped Nigeria’s financial landscape. Offering services ranging from payments and transfers to savings and loans, what began as an ambitious entrant into Nigeria’s highly competitive fintech ecosystem has evolved into one of the country’s most recognizable financial platforms, serving millions of customers and processing billions of naira in transactions daily.
When the sun rises over Douala’s central business district, the city’s commerce comes to life on a screen. Women sell fabric over WhatsApp, young people move handmade crafts on Instagram, and a generation that never queued at a bank now trades, ships and gets paid from a phone.
Whatever you do, try not to take your wife there on a vacation, she just might not come back with you.
In Africa, among the many great works of art that exist on the continent, one stands out for the rich historical narrative it tells about a culture and civilization that thrived long before the advent of colonialism. That remarkable work of art is the famous Benin Bronze Head.
This is the new wave of migration quietly unfolding across the continent. It doesn’t require airports, visas, or border control. It is called digital migration, and it allows Africans to earn dollars, pounds, and euros from the comfort of their homes.
Organized by the foundational architect of Afrocentric theory, Professor Molefi Kete Asante, Chair of the Department of Africology at Temple University and founder of the Molefi Kete Asante (MKA) Institute, the gathering at the Pennsylvania Convention Center for the Global Afrocentricity Workshop and Symposium radiated an intense, focused energy.
First established as African Freedom Day in 1958 by visionary leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, the event evolved on May 25, 1963, when 31 independent African heads of state convened in Ethiopia to form the Organization of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union (AU).
This article features seven innovative side hustles that are generating Black wealth in 2025, linking a heritage of side hustles or business for Black people in the past to today’s digital economy.
Botswana and Namibia are actively rewriting the rules of climate-smart agriculture and agribusiness, transforming environmental vulnerabilities into technological testbeds.
