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...
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
Profiles - Leaders & Changemakers · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 A scholarship is a promise made to a teenager and collected on by a country a decade later. China has become one of the largest single funders of African study and...
Hawassa’s women: The export line that runs on rural migrants
Profiles - Women in Business & Rising Stars · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Export manufacturing is supposed to be a ladder out of subsistence, and for the young women who staff Ethiopia's industrial parks it is the rung they...
The 10,000: Africa’s private Chinese firms outnumber the state giants
Profiles - Founders & Operators · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The dominant picture of Chinese business in Africa is a state-owned giant pouring concrete for a dam or a railway. It is also, by the numbers, the wrong picture. The...
Xennon General Solutions: Professional Pest Control Solutions Across Southern Africa
Xennon General Solutions (Pty) Ltd is a professional pest control company delivering eco‑friendly, scientifically proven, and government‑trusted pest management solutions across Southern Africa. Built on precision, protection, and peace of mind, Xennon General...
From Author-to-Authority: Fitzgerald Mujuru the Award-Winning Author-Business Coach
In today's knowledge economy, thousands of experts write books. Few become authorities. The difference isn't the quality of their knowledge - it's the strategic infrastructure behind their publishing. Fitzgerald Mujuru's transformation exemplifies Cabanga.Africa's...
Munya Chimba: A Master of Logistics and Retail in South Africa
Munya Chimba’s story is one of resilience, strategic thinking, and transformative leadership in logistics and retail in South Africa. From humble beginnings as an accounts clerk to founding and leading SITT Group, his career exemplifies the power of bold decisions,...
John Arufandika: The Emerging Technologies Leader Powering Africa’s AI Future
Aptiva AI’s founder receives a prestigious 2025 LIST Award, marking a defining moment for African-first artificial intelligence. A Defining Moment for African AI When John Arufandika walked onto the stage at the 2025 LIST Awards in Harare to receive the Emerging...
Zimbabwe’s Tobacco, Zimbabwe’s Pride: Inside the 96-Year Stewardship of the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association
The auction floor wakes early. In the cool light before buyers crowd the lines, graders nod through stacks of flue-cured leaf and a district councillor from the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association (ZTA) answers a grower’s question about this week’s prices. The scene could be...
Evertol Associates – Building SA & SADC Businesses Worth R500M+ | Bookkeeping, Compliance & Strategy
When aspiring entrepreneurs think about starting or scaling a business in South Africa or the SADC region, many don’t realise that behind Evertol Associates stands a strategist whose influence has quietly steered R500 million+ (≈ $25 million USD) in ventures. That...
The Day the Lights Woke Us: Turning Setbacks into Media Sovereignty
In an era when social media feels like the pavement beneath everyone’s feet, it’s easy to believe it won’t disappear under you. But time and again, businesses are learning the hard way: when platform rules shift, access to followers, content, and reach can vanish in...
Brewing New Opportunities: BeanBreaker.com Is Hiring Sales Agents
At cabanga.africa/, we’ve always believed that every great cup of coffee - and every great business - starts with the right blend. For us, that blend has been media + agency: telling stories that matter while building digital engines that make small and medium...
André Wameso’s first month at the BCC: an old reserve rule, a new enforcement clock
Within weeks of his 23 July 2025 appointment, BCC governor André Wameso told commercial banks that a reserve penalty frozen at an old exchange rate would be repriced in three steps from 15 September.
Wameso at the BCC: the Presidency’s economist inherits Congo’s rate, auction and reserves
Tshisekedi named adviser André Wameso governor of the Banque Centrale du Congo on 23 July 2025. The appointment carries no new law, yet it moves the rate, the auction and enforcement priorities.
Malangu Kabedi Mbuyi’s franc: the IMF veteran who turned Congo’s policy rate into a wall
Malangu Kabedi Mbuyi became the BCC’s first woman governor in 2021. By June 2025 her tight-money stance had pushed the real policy rate above 16 per cent and held the franc to a 0.05 per cent slide this year.
Malangu Kabedi Mbuyi’s plateau: the governor who made the Congolese franc hold still
Malangu Kabedi Mbuyi kept the BCC policy rate at 25 per cent while inflation fell below 10 per cent and the franc held near CDF 2,850. May 2025 tested whether that discipline survives the Kivu conflict.
The Smart CFO: Why Financial Clarity is a Advantage for SMBs in the US
In a business world obsessed with growth, the back-office is often the last place people look. Strategy gets the headlines, marketing gets the budgets, and operations get the fires to put out. But somewhere between the invoices not sent, the forecasts not updated, and...
Build the Dream, Then Brew the Coffee: Entrepreneur Mornings Done Right
Some people wake up and make coffee. Entrepreneurs wake up and make choices. Whether you’re building an empire from your bedroom, running meetings before sunrise, or juggling spreadsheets with sippy cups, the way you start your morning sets the tone for everything....
How John Arufandika is Shaping Africa’s Digital Future Through AI and Scalable Media Solutions
In Africa's rapidly evolving digital space, businesses are increasingly turning to experts who can not only navigate technological advancements but also implement them at scale. John Arufandika is one such expert-bringing over 15 years of experience in digital product...