The African tech hubs pioneering innovation: How digital transformation can drive growth and job creation across emerging economies...
15 Jun 2018
In addition to formal leadership training programmes, Africa's current leaders also need to contribute to the development of the young by demonstrating good leadership skills, analysts say...
Franck Kuwonu 13 Jun 2018
The African Development Bank, together with partners, launched the Coding for Employment programme at the African Innovation Summit in Kigali, Rwanda...
12 Jun 2018
A first-ever gathering in the sub-Saharan African region will be held in Cape Town, bringing together more than 700 people to discuss how to improve the diversity of knowledge represented on Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites...
1 Jun 2018
Healthcare is getting increasingly high tech, and nurses in Africa are at the forefront of using innovative solutions to improve patient care...
24 May 2018
Employers have an obligation to ensure their employees are skilled to adapt to the displacement being triggered by the fourth industrial revolution...
11 May 2018
People across Africa face considerable challenges - many of them existential. But, without the right devices, connectivity, and skills, those who badly need their problems solved often can't access available solutions...
Greg Morris 8 May 2018
Africa's new digitised youth population, Generation Z, will define Africa's digital future and these are the skills they will need to do it...
Louise Marsland 8 May 2018
What happens when African philosophies and practices are placed at the centre of learning? How can teachers and students on the continent use the concepts of ubuntu (human interdependence) and ukama (relationality) to come up with homegrown solutions for societal and educational concerns?
Yusef Waghid, Faiq Waghid and Zayd Waghid 4 May 2018
Africa's free trade area aims to create a single market for goods and services in Africa. By 2030 the market size is expected to include 1.7 billion people with over USD$ 6.7 trillion of cumulative consumer and business spending...
Landry Signé 27 Mar 2018
Africa's most innovative social and business entrepreneurs under the age of 22 are being invited to enter the annual Anzisha Prize. 2018 applicants will have the opportunity to win a share of $100,000, connect to a global network of leaders, and receive business consulting support...
9 Mar 2018
The Injini team will be travelling to Accra, Lagos, Dar es Salaam, Kampala, and Nairobi in search for another eight early-stage tech businesses with innovative, scalable solutions to African education challenges...
7 Mar 2018
By 2050, the African population will double, to reach 2.5 billion - half of whom will be under the age of 25. Investing in education, in particular e-education, and digital skills, has to be a priority...
6 Mar 2018
Ten African startups have been chosen as finalists for the New Venture Competition being run by Harvard Business School's Africa Business Club, which is offering startups the chance to win cash prizes of up to $10,000...
Tom Jackson 28 Feb 2018
As debate swirls on whether artificial intelligence will be a boon or a curse for humanity...
26 Feb 2018
Design Indaba speaker Mark Kamau is a Kenyan on a mission to connect everyone in Africa, and then the rest of the world, to the internet...
Louise Marsland 26 Feb 2018
Morocco's Ecole Marocaine des Sciences de l'Ingénieur and YK Business School (YKBS) in Mauritius have formally joined the Honoris United Universities' network as member institutions...
16 Feb 2018
Education is food for the mind. It nourishes the brain. It develops intellectual and emotional maturity. Collectively it creates innovative people who improve their economy...
Duduzile Mkhwanazi 12 Feb 2018
Facebook today announced a number of partnerships across Africa to explore ways to make the internet safer for all...
6 Feb 2018
Donor nations announced on Saturday, 3 February, $2.3bn in funding to support education in developing countries, following an international meeting in the Senegalese capital Dakar...
5 Feb 2018
