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Dr. John Alpha Arufandika: Why Africa Needs AI That Speaks Its Own Languages
Dr John Alpha Arufandika, founder of Aptiva AI and winner of the 2025 LIST Emerging Technologies Impact Award, is building secure, private AI in fourteen Southern African languages. African businesses are adopting artificial intelligence at speed, and most of it is...
BoFiNet Names Dr Gaone Seleka CEO to Drive Digital Infrastructure
BoFiNet has appointed Dr Gaone Seleka as CEO to expand Botswana’s fibre backbone and cross-border connectivity. What it signals for operators and
Court Rejects Bid to Halt PSBC Secretary Appointment
The Lobatse High Court has dismissed a union bid to block Andrew Motsamai as PSBC Secretary, clearing the way for Botswana’s public-service bargaining-council
Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu | The Expansion Architect
In nine years Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu turned a single analysis platform into twelve magazine editions reaching business owners across twenty-four African countries. The method has not changed since the first article. One website and an argument Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu...
Scholarships and Skills: China’s Bet on African Human Capital
China is pledging tens of thousands of scholarships and training places. The dividend depends on whether those graduates come home and find work.
Hawassa’s women: The export line that runs on rural migrants
Industrial parks promise women formal jobs, and Ethiopia’s flagship park is staffed overwhelmingly by young rural migrants, yet the wages testing that promise sit near the poverty line.
The 10,000: Africa’s private Chinese firms outnumber the state giants
The image of Chinese investment in Africa is a state colossus building dams. The data says otherwise: most of the roughly 10,000 Chinese firms on the continent are small and privately owned.
Green Envoys: A Skills Programme Long on Mission, Short on Headcount
The China-Africa Green Envoys Program promises green skills and a homegrown workforce. Six years on, the published record still carries the mission – but not the number of Africans actually trained.