Columnist / Kingsley ighobor
Financing Africa's massive projects
Innovative bankrolling gains popularity and raises high hopes among key countries It is an audacious $4.8 billion project undertaken by one of the ...Published: 28 Feb 2015 at 08:14hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor and Busani Bafana
All eyes on $1 trillion
African agribusiness is set for a huge leap, according to a World Bank report Imagine for a moment the impact of a $1 trillion African agribusiness...Published: 12 Apr 2014 at 06:39hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor and Aissata Haidara
African philanthropists push for prosperity
Last July, US President Barack Obama set the spark for his Power Africa programme that will help sub-Saharan African countries build power production and transmission projects and double their el...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 02:34hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor
Tourism in Africa is slowly coming of age
Jet-lagged, 500 delegates from around the world arrived in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, in May to deliberate on the path to Africa's tourism future. To unwind, Zimbabwe's Tourism Authority, host of the c...Published: 18 Aug 2012 at 07:31hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor and Aissata Haidara
Mobile phones are getting smarter in rural Africa
Imagine you are in Yokadouma, a rural community in eastern Cameroon with little electricity and inaccessible roads. You have an old, inexpensive mobile phone with which you can only make and receive ...Published: 03 Apr 2012 at 21:35hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor I Africa Renewal
UN in post-war reconstruction: Sierra Leone's success story
"The war is over, go and enjoy life," Sierra Leone's former president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, declared at a January 2002 symbolic burning of weapons and ammunition to mark the end of the country's civil ...Published: 10 Nov 2011 at 20:26hrs | 1 | by Kingsley Ighobor and Michael Fleshman
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