Category AFRICA

Gearing up for U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit

MAU Leads the charge in getting bid for Minnesota ………As Consular Corp briefing due in Chicago on Monday By: Mohammed Abu Minnesota Africans United will host a briefing for Chicago-based Consul Generals and Honorary Consuls on Monday, December 12th at…

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) Expands Asian Capital Market Footprint with US$160 Million Kimchi Loan Facility Led by Mizuho and Shinhan Bank

The successful closure of the 3-year Kimchi loan facility is a positive indication of Korea’s and more broadly Asia’s growing interest in infrastructure investment opportunities in Africa LAGOS, Nigeria, December 7, 2022/ — Africa Finance Corporation (), the leading infrastructure…

ESG in Africa is colonialism 2.0

OPINION by N.J. Ayuk Many today believe the era of colonialism in Africa is over. They’re wrong. The era of colonialism in Africa has merely entered a new and insidious phase. Some call it “neo-colonialism.” I call it colonialism 2.0. In colonialism 1.0,…

Breaking Africa’s Industrialization Jinx

Beefing up Private Sector/ending raw materials exports, get focus!!! ……As African Union Extraordinary Summit ends in Niamey NIAMEY, Niger, December 1, 2022/ — African leaders reviewed the continent’s progress in industrialization, economic diversification, and the African Continental Free Trade Area…