Black Friday has grown into more than a one‐day sales event in Africa. What began as a retail import from the West now plays ...

Dr. James Bridgeforth holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has served as an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech, the University of South Alabama, the University of Southern ...

There is an economic sector in Africa worth $1 trillion a year, and yet most of the people who work in it are invisible. “Farmers are the folks that you don’t see,” says African Development Bank Group ...

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s arts and creative industries continue to gain ground as key drivers of economic growth, youth employment, and cultural innovation.Far beyond painting, music, and performance, ...

Crystal Simeoni, Pan-African feminist and Director of Nawi – the Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective, shares advice to young African women in the economics field. The economic space has been largely led ...

Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 47, No. 166 (December 2020), pp. 651-661 (11 pages) Africa has massive potential for a vibrant ‘Blue Economy’: 70% of the countries in the continent have ...

Imraan Valodia receives funding from a number of South African and international foundations that support academic and policy research. Everyone agrees that solving the unemployment problem in South ...

JOHANNESBURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Africa’s digital payments economy is set to grow from strength to strength according to a Mastercard-commissioned report by Genesis Analytics stating that the digital ...

With China’s rise to become Africa’s largest bilateral creditor, much research has focused on an evidence-based critique of the politicised narrative about China’s supposed ‘debt trap diplomacy’. At a ...