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Farm To Fortune

Olagoke Balogun replicated the local farmers market which ended up as a business selling slick salads and smoothies for the Nigerian on the move.

Nigeria's Fintech Frenzy: Onwards And Upwards

Africa’s biggest economy has a bright new star – its financial technology industry, which is attracting fresh funding and a raft of new startups, investors and venture capitalists. The unicorns are emerging, slowly but surely, in this hub that’s witnessing a revolution in its bustling financial services space.

‘Need To Be Assertive And Exhibit Boss Behavior'

One of America’s most successful self-made women, Hollywood actor Jessica Alba’s journey to entrepreneurship began 13 years ago. Her business, The Honest Company, debuted on the Nasdaq in May this year. In this exclusive interview with FORBES AFRICA, the Los Angeles-based star speaks about living consciously, taking ownership and her new YouTube series, Getting Honest.

Covid's Entrepreneur Explosion

High unemployment, the magnifying power of the web and fresh fintech financing are fueling an eruption of startups not seen in decades. And America will never go back to business as usual.

Scene Stealer

VIMEO WASTED ITS YOUTH STRIVING TO BE AN ODDBALL COMBO OF NETFLIX AND A COMMERCIAL-FREE YOUTUBE. AFTER A HARD REFOCUS ON BUSINESS USERS, CEO ANJALI SUD HAS TRANSFORMED THE NEAR-FORGOTTEN BRAND INTO A $6 BILLION BLOCKBUSTER BUSINESS THAT LETS BOTH MOM-AND-POP SHOPS AND GIANT CORPORATIONS SHOOT, EDIT AND POST MILLIONS OF VIDEOS ACROSS THE INTERNET’S MOST INFLUENTIAL SITES.

Daddy Cool

In recent years, surrogacy has become increasingly popular among single women and gay couples. For heterosexual single men, it’s still a rather unusual path to follow but that is changing.

Model Entrepreneur

Elizabeth Isiorho is ramping up her modeling business to provide more young people international opportunities and put African beauty on the map.

Fully On Board

South African professional surfer Jordy Smith is gearing up for Olympic gold and also making waves in the business world.

Class Of 2021 Change-Makers In A Historic Year

Members of this year’s list of under 30s have one thing in common: a new covid-induced agenda for social change. So what would a historic pandemic year throw up? Ground-breaking entrepreneurs and thinkers. Our 2021 class of under 30s are just that: influential creatives, imaginative business owners, innovative techies, and gifted sports stars. Celebrating seven years of the Forbes Africa 30 under 30 list, these achievers prove that now more than ever, they are crucial to the african growth story.

Driving Feminist Data For Change

East African techpreneur Neema Iyer works at the intersection of data, design, and digital to eventually enable products, policies, and programs that take into account the needs of African women.

Hollywood. Hustle. And Hair Love

Former NFL wide receiver Matthew A. Cherry made it in the mecca of gigs and glamor with an Oscar-winning film marking diversity in the world of animation. We ask him how he did it.

The Other ‘C' That Has Dominated News From Last Year

In the midst of the pandemic, cryptocurrencies also made surging headlines, with news about it changing faster than you could say Bitcoin, Ether and Dogecoin.

Whatever Clicks For Business

The scene is not picture perfect yet, but ace photographers are slowly capturing the creative market in Ghana.

Why NFTs Are Having An Arty Moment

Art’s valuable digital future, a recent boom in NFT sales and blockchain with an important role in preserving an artist’s legacy.

Oil Vulture

Even if demand never recovers from Covid-19, billionaire John Goffsees the pandemic as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to invest in distressed frackers willing to follow Big Tobacco’s declining-business playbook.

Can Empathy Be Automated?

The changing relationship between human beings and intelligent machines in the workplace.

Rockets To Riches: The Rise And Rise Of Elon Musk

South African-born, billionaire technology and space entrepreneur, Elon Musk, made history at the start of 2021, overtaking Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to become the richest man on Earth. While his fortune was made on this planet, his dreams to venture to the final frontier remain. FORBES AFRICA takes a look at his journey to becoming one of the world’s most celebrated innovators and one of the wealthiest men alive.

The Journey To Sustainability And Having A Broader Impact

A sublime reality of being human is that we all have divergent points of view; we may arrive at the same destination but many of us like taking the scenic route since we prefer learning from our own experiences and sometimes, mistakes.

Virus, Vaccine And Viability

Understanding the successful storage, supply chain and distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine and what Africa needs to do to get it right.

Biotech's Barnum And His Covid Cures

Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong’s radical cancer treatments made him one of the wealthiest physicians on earth. Now the master of medical marketing believes his drug therapies could defeat the “crisis of our time” — and there are plenty of reasons to think he’ll deliver more Hippocrates than hype.

Heartbeat Of The Global Economy?

The largest free trade area in the world, with a combined GDP of $3.3 trillion, came into effect on the first day of 2021. A look at what exactly implementation of a deal of this magnitude means.

Tory Burch's Survival Sketchbook

Amid a luxury fashion apocalypse, one of the century’s greatest entrepreneurial retailers (and one of America’s richest self-made women) brought us deep inside the battle to save her brand.

The Plant, The Planet And A Plan

Nicola Kavhu is serving up a new menu of realities and possibilities in the 21st century African diet, promoting healthy eating while respecting and protecting the creatures that share our planet.

Inspiration From Where Life Happens

Anjali Borkhataria is trying to change the narrative of fashion in Tanzania with a local brand aimed at everyone.

A RIVER, A MONSTER AND RESPONSIBLE TOURISM

An innovative Gambian initiative, several decades in the making, is at last ready to emerge from its long incubation, turning cryptozoology into currency.

‘Think Big, Strategize And Then Get Your Hands Dirty For Results'

This year has passed by in a flash; the year can be characterized by its cricketing synonym 20/20. It will, unfortunately, remain a year etched in history, like 1918, for all the wrong reasons; when there has been abject realization that we only have the illusion of being in control of what is happening around us.

What Next For The NHI?

There has been enough debate and deliberation around South Africa’s proposed National Health Insurance Bill for unified health coverage. Covid-19 has turned the spotlight on it again, and there’s more news expected in February 2021.

The Year That Changed Everything

2020. Unexpected. Unprecedented. The year a virus tore through the core of our being, and assailed our health systems and the wellbeing of our economies. Its effects ricocheted through every street, every alley of South Africa. Forbes africa trained its lens on the new reality the year is leaving behind.

Beyond The Blaze

With shrinking glaciers and raging fires, climate change is impacting the diverse ecosystem on Africa’s highest mountain in more ways than one.

The Rise And Rise Of Tyler Perry

From “poor as hell” to billionaire: how Tyler Perry built an entertainment empire and changed show business forever.