A YOUNG Kenyan entrepreneur, asked at a conference what she would like for her country, replied that fewer potholes in Nairobi would be good. And a free and fair election next year.The woman was one of a handful of young and talented African entrepreneurs who were asked at a session at the recent World Economic [...]

Business Day DIANNA GAMES Published: 2012/05/21 07:24:59 AM THE skyline of Addis Ababa is a sea of high-rise construction projects that stand alongside the new buildings and hotels that dot the city centre. They are rapidly squeezing out the shanties and informal shops that crammed the city when I last visited it nearly a decade [...]

Business Day DIANNA GAMES Published: 2012/05/07 07:44:19 AM TALK about investing in other African countries is a hot topic in South African boardrooms but even as companies start to think more seriously about opportunities in their hinterland, most of Francophone Africa is still a bridge too far for most. The recent coups d’état in Mali, [...]

DIANNA GAMES Published: 2012/04/23 08:03:42 AM THE death this month of Malawi’s p resident Bingu wa Mutharika in a private clinic in Johannesburg brings to mind other African leaders whose lives ended in hospitals far from the public health systems of their home countries. Malawi’s first post-independence president, Hastings Banda, died at a private clinic [...]