The first thing she notices are the streetlights; they don’t have those in the village. The roads are nicer too; some still have potholes but they definitely can’t be compared to where she’s come from. Ada* is in the city, where her dreams of going to a good school and […]

  When I started my first job after graduation in 2008 at a federal owned radio and television station in Abuja, Nigeria, I was paid 40, 000 Naira a month; that’s roughly about US$250. I lived with family at the time, drove a car I really didn’t have to fuel, […]

  Africa is a massive yet diverse continent, with diversity not only in ethnic cultures but also in geographic regions, which offer a variety of climates, vegetation and topographical arrays. However, perhaps more importantly these various regions also offer different investment and economic opportunities. In recent years certain African countries […]

In today’s economy, it is vital that young people learn to fish for themselves rather than wait to be handed fish by their guardians or society. Yet it is even better to be able to fish and sell for a profit on the open market. Why? Because  young people can […]

This article was originally drafted by the African Center for Economic Transformation for the newsletter “West Africa Trends” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. The forecast trends for tourism on the African continent are encouraging. Over the next decade, Africa’s tourism industry is expected to […]