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Many of us have heard the story of two salesmen from two separate shoe-manufacturing companies who traveled to Africa in...

Joanne Thomas Yaccato, founder and president of Thomas Yaccato Group, a Canadian consultancy that helps companies attract the attention and...

By all accounts, Africa can be a major player in the global cotton market. How soon it realizes that potential...

The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corpo-ration, brought good news in September to Africa business...

Fifty years after the Gold Coast wrestled its independence from Britain and christened itself ?Ghana? in tribute to the medieval...

Last August, about 250 men and women of good intentions gathered in Oslow, Norway, to address former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi...

In Uganda there is a saying, ?He who swallows a seed of the ekungur [shea-butter] tree should know the size...