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Fast Virus. Slow Growth.

Ghana and Nigeria brace for the economic nightmare ahead, even as the region’s billionaires, entrepreneurs and innovators chip in for the fight against Covid-19.

Beyond The Lockdown: What Big Business Is Doing Now

Corporate Africa has to urgently pandemic-proof itself with new ideas, innovations and emotions, to merely stay alive fighting a marauding virus.

Covid-19: The Ultimate Disruptor

The coronavirus has rebooted every aspect of life as we know it. Across Africa, home-grown ideas and smallscale technological innovations are coming to the fore to help combat it.

STAYING FLEXIBLE

The 19-year-old South African gymnast was all set for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in July, for which she had qualified. With the event’s postponement, her goal hasn’t changed, she says, only the timeline has.

All Home And No Play

Not since World War II has the global sports industry faced such a crippling crisis, which is likely to cost billions of dollars in lost revenue and could yet see the permanent extinction of some teams and competitions.

Coronavirus - Testing Times

For Africa’s two biggest economies already suffering ailing growth, Covid-19 has checked in at a vulnerable time.

Once Upon A Dreamer

Rapper 21 Savage headlines a formidable list of Forbes Under 30 alumni who grew up undocumented — and are now inspiring change to help their peers.

A $500 Million Consortium And Global Stage For Africa

For now, plans continue for Expo 2020 Dubai, dubbed the planet’s biggest show. And driving the Africa connection and youth development is Reem Al Hashimy, the UAE’s dynamic Minister for International Cooperation and Director General of the expo.

The Fundamental Steps In Finding Equality And Happiness

My visit to Durban in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province in the first week of March to attend the 2020 FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Leading Women Summit was a memorable one.

How To Prepare Your Business For The Contagion

With stock markets in steep decline, countries in quarantine, and cases of Covid-19 spreading rapidly around the globe, businesses have no option but to brace themselves for this raging pandemic.

THE ASCENT OF A NEW SPORT

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is only three months away, even as the coronavirus threatens to disrupt it. If it goes head, the Games will debut a new event called sport climbing, which is slowly gaining ground in Africa.

THE AFRO-OPTIMIST

Cheryl Buss, the UK-based CEO of Absa International, on her passion for Africa and its resilient, entrepreneurial mind-set.

NERVES OF STEEL

Self-made Ghanaian entrepreneur Nana Kwame Bediako bought his first car by age 16 and made a million pounds in the United Kingdom before he turned 21. The fearless, unabashedly ambitious property tycoon is now on a mission to transform Accra’s skyline.

LEADING THE CHARGE

AS 2020 USHERS IN A NEW DECADE AND A NEW SET OF DAUNTING CHALLENGES FOR THE WORLD – CLIMATE CHANGE, THE CORONAVIRUS – IT’S ALL THE MORE IMPERATIVE THAT THE WORLD’S YOUNGEST CONTINENT RISES TO THE CRISES AND SEES OPPORTUNITIES WHERE THERE SEEM TO BE NONE. THESE ARE THE MEN AND WOMEN FORGING AHEAD WITH CREDIBLE, CREATIVE AND PROFOUND STRATEGIES TO SHAPE OUR TOMORROW. CELEBRATING SIX YEARS OF THE FORBES AFRICA 30 UNDER 30 LIST, THEY ARE THE CONTINENT’S REVOLUTIONARY THINKERS REVITALIZING IDEAS AND INDUSTRIES WITH FRESH BUSINESS MODELS AND INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP.

HANDS-ON APPROACH

The hygiene industry has received a shot in the arm with the recent pandemic. With emptying retail shelves, small business is also coming to the aid with innovative sanitizing ideas.

Africa's 50 Most Powerful Women

This is a first-of-its-kind pan-african compilation of the continent’s leading women, drawn from business, politics, media, science, sports and public life, who are challenging the status quo and creating a trail on terrain where there was none. They are reshaping history, closing inequalities and pioneering new avenues of wealth creation and in turn, lifting others with them.

The Talented Choir That Never Had A Music Lesson

From humble beginnings to the limelight in Hollywood, their success is for every ordinary African with big dreams and a bigger mission.

Vigilance Against The Virus

With the coronavirus spreading faster globally than the news around it, how is corporate Africa bracing itself for the threat?

The Five Trends To Future-proof Your Business

Some of these fads were slowly building in the previous decade, others are still nascent, but need your full attention to prepare your business for the times ahead.

THE TRUST PRINCIPLE

South Africa’s KPMG boss Ignatius Sehoole on why ethical behavior must extend beyond working hours to all other aspects of life.

THE FRENCH SILHOUETTE IN AFRICA

From glamorous Paris to gritty Johannesburg, Zazi Nyandeni arrived with $2,700 and updated sartorial skills to showcase haute couture on South Africa’s racks and runways.

SOIL TOIL

A car accident made this graphic designer more grounded, and take to farming, tending to vegetables on a piece of land far from Johannesburg.

NEW BILLIONAIRE - GHOST WRITER

MacKenzie Bezos is an author, an early Amazon employee, a billionaire — and isn’t talking.

MINING'S PLANS TO CLEAN UP ITS ACT AND PLUG THE POWER GAP

IS THE BIGGEST MINING GATHERING ON THE PLANET STILL WORTHY OF NOTE? IT MAY HAVE BEEN SHORT ON NEWS, BUT IT WAS LONG ON BACK STORIES AND HOPE WITH A DASH OF TENSION. MANY THOUGHT THE MINING INDABA WAS FADING, BUT THE 26TH EDITION IN CAPE TOWN LAST MONTH WAS RARELY DULL IF YOU LOOKED HARD ENOUGH.

A DECADE OF GERT-JOHAN COETZEE

A fashion designer who believes you can never dream too big, Gert-Johan Coet-zee is revered as one of South Africa’s most celebrated designers; synonymous with his signature style, sophistication and panache.

A Welcome Change For The Diaspora

Ghana’s clever campaign last year to encourage Africans to return to their roots spruced up tourism numbers and awakened the feeling of home, healing the many torn apart.

Africa's Richest 2020: Steady State With Some Volatility On The Margins

Like elsewhere in the world, fortunes in Africa can be volatile, thanks to changes like a new currency.

Credibility Before Cricket

Mired in major governance issues in recent times, Cricket South Africa is now making sure the right people are in place to turn its fortunes around so the actual game can take center-stage.

Kevin Durant's Hardest Three-Point Play

The NBA superstar has come to New York with three goals in mind: A return to dominance, a defining championship and a lasting business empire. They’re all interconnected.

‘COCOA FARMERS WHO HAVE NEVER TASTED CHOCOLATE IN THEIR LIVES'

The unpalatable truth is an unfair distribution of profits in the global cocoa trade, of which West Africa has substantive market share. Thankfully, entrepreneurial disruptors and a new initiative in Ghana seek a sweeter ending for farmers.