An upcoming and exciting African Soapie Ndafunga Dande is calling for actors and actresses to come and audition for one of the many different roles -NFD Role Description Ndafunga Dande Synopsis: - Life of Africans in the diaspora and opportunities and challenges they face. In the pilot episode we are introduced to the Kunakas; a rich […]
April 19, 2013
Summary The global economic recovery remains tepid, but it is expected to gradually strengthen going forward. Sub-Saharan African countries continue to grow at a strong pace, spurred by domestic demand and still high commodity prices. Economic prospects are tilted to the upside. Good progress has been made on a few MDGs, even though the region […]
November 19, 2012
According to some news reports prior to the announcement on the 15 November 2012, the 2013 National Budget was designed to be ‘demand focused’. For the 2013 Strategy Paper – please click 2013+Budget+Strategy+Paper For the 2013 2013 Zimbabwe National Budget Statement – please click 2013 Zimbabwe National Budget Final The major highlights: - Zimbabwe GDP in 2012 […]
October 24, 2010
Why Africa needs to attract investors, posted with vodpod Interesting
July 12, 2010
The full McKinsey Report ‘Lions on the move: The progress and potential of African economies‘ - MGI_african_economies_full_report
July 11, 2010
Continuing to read my book – Africa Rising. My current mind set (i.e. Africa is the future) is being confirmed steadily. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in Africa and Her progress. Interestingly though, I do put the book down at times and go online to research a bit. I found this interesting link. This […]
May 4, 2010
I thought this was interesting. Somali twins in New York City living their dream. Inspiring… more about “Designing siblings from Somalia“, posted with vodpod
May 2, 2010
I found this on www.ted.com. I read about this Nigerian lady some time last year; the work she did and continues to do in Nigeria even to this day. Inspiring stuff really, I’m humbled after watching that. She made a number of points in her TED presenatation about some of the things I spoke about in my previous blog […]
April 19, 2010
In between all the madness of ZimBizForums and discoverZim I try to make time to catch up on some reading. As I mentioned a few months ago I am reading a book by Moky Makura entitled Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs.In the same breath I stumbled across this on youtube yesterday. This is a very inspiring story: – Africa Open for Business […]
April 26, 2013
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