Category: African Business
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🇬🇭President Mahama Dedicates Modern Kasoa New Market Amid Economic Revival Push
President John Dramani Mahama, Ghana’s leader since his 2024 election victory, visited Kasoa on Friday, May 8, 2026, to officially dedicate the revamped Kasoa New Market. The event marks a key step in his administration’s focus on infrastructure and the 24-hour economy initiative.[1][2][3] Ceremony Highlights The dedication ceremony drew thousands of traders, local chiefs, and…
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🇿🇦🇰🇪🇳🇬 Top 10: Financial Services Platforms in Africa
Explore Africa’s top 10 financial services giants like Standard Bank, M-Pesa and Flutterwave, driving institutional growth and fintech innovation in Africa The African financial landscape is currently defined by a unique dual-track evolution, where established banking institutions with century-long legacies operate alongside agile fintech disruptors. Success in this modern era is no longer measured solely…
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Africa’s telecom towers turn to solar as diesel costs surge
Soaring diesel prices linked to the Iran war are accelerating a continent‑wide shift in Africa’s telecom industry, pushing operators to replace fuel‑hungry generators with solar‑powered systems to keep mobile networks running and costs under control. Diesel powers most of Africa’s 500,000 cell phone towers, but recent price spikes and supply disruptions have made it increasingly…
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🇿🇦Once extinct flower now flourishing in a South African national park
Table Mountain National Park, extending south along a peninsula from Table Mountain, is a global biodiversity hotspot. A newly updated checklist, published in 2025, indicates 2,785 plant species within this approximately 250 square kilometre area. That is a higher number of species than found in the entire of someEuropean countries. But the checklist also highlights…
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BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions — Kahlil Joseph’s Cinematic Revolution Reclaims Black Time, Memory, and Resistance
Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is not simply a film—it is an intervention. Refusing the constraints of traditional storytelling, Joseph delivers a bold, multi-layered cinematic experience that challenges how Black history, memory, and identity are constructed, consumed, and preserved. Emerging as one of the most critically acclaimed works of 2025, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions…
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Rastafari want more legal marijuana for freedom of worship
Mosiyah Tafari banged on drums and chanted psalms with other Rastafari in a ballroom where the smoke of frankincense mixed with the fragrant smell of marijuana — which his faith deems sacred. The ceremony in Columbus, Ohio marked the 91st anniversary of the coronation of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, whom Rastafari worship…
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🇦🇬🇧🇧 Antigua and Barbuda: Rastafari granted authorization to grow herb
For decades, members of the Rastafari community have been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic marijuana use. I (was) born within the Rastafari community. My mother and father are Rastafari,” says Ras Kiyode Erasto, a priest with the Ras Freeman Foundation for the Unification of Rastafari. Erasto suffered bullying and discrimination growing up. At one…
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🇰🇪‘Holy Herb’: Kenya’s Rastafarians Fight To Decriminalize Cannabis
Kenya’s Rastafarian community returned to the High Court in November, pressing for the decriminalization of cannabis in religious worship. They argue that the country’s narcotics laws violate their constitutional rights to privacy and faith. Despite cannabis’s central role in Rastafarian worship, adherents face persistent criminalization rooted in colonial-era laws that branded the herb as a…
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Trump Advances Medical Marijuana Reform: Africa Watches Global Shift
Africa’s Herbal Heritage Meets Modern U.S. Cannabis Shift President Donald Trump has directed a pivotal change in U.S. drug policy by expediting the reclassification of medical marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. This move, rooted in his December 18, 2025, Executive Order on Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research, eases federal restrictions on research…
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Nigeria, South Africa seek stronger economic ties, faster AfCFTA implementation
Stakeholders from Nigeria and South Africa have called for deeper economic alignment, increased investment flows and accelerated implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), as both nations position themselves as key drivers of Africa’s growth. The call was made at the second edition of the South Africa–Nigeria Economic Diplomacy Roundtable held in Lagos,…
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