There has been little advancement in cryptocurrency use in Africa, underrating the major possibilities of its use on the continent. According to recent research, Africa’s active crypto countries are South Africa and Nigeria. The rest of the continent has not unlocked the power of blockchain in currencies. 

The report on the state of cryptocurrency in Africa, suggests that the continent is still lagging despite being a great candidate for cryptocurrencies.

Sometime in February 2000, I left my residence which was located at Cite Sipress 2 in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, to do some business at Place de la Independence in the centre of town. On completion of my mission, I requested of my driver to take me on a cruise around different parts of the city since I wasn't in a rush to get back home.

This article discusses 20 points summarizing the future vision of Sierra Leone as seen by students at the Sierra Leone Conference on Development and Transformation   The article was originally published in the Awoko Newspaper, Freetown, Sierra Leone in February 2012.

"At the closing ceremony of the Sierra Leone Conference on Development and Transformation last Wednesday 1st February, the results of an essay competition for secondary children on the topic “How I will want to see Sierra Leone in the next 25 years” were read out.

The World’s seventh largest country by population, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with well over 180 million people comprising several distinct ethnic groups, each with their own traditions and unique cultures. Prominent groups include the Yoruba from the Southwest, the Igbos from the Southeast, and the Hausa/Fulani from the North.

As part of my gap year, I decided to do something different than a typical student. I wanted to do something that would make a real-life difference in people's lives, and Balloon Ventures was able to provide me with a chance to do that.

Recently I saw an article shared by someone on Facebook about the Mall of Africa— the 1.4 million square foot mall that opened last month in Waterfall City, South Africa. Construction began in this conveniently located suburb of Johannesburg in 2012, and the final cost to completion came in at around $330 million (US).

There are too many boys in the boardroom, and it’s not good for business. Results of a comprehensive study done by the Peterson Institute reveal a strong association between higher profitability and a higher percentage of women in C-level positions, such as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, etc.

The study also highlights how firms with no women in executive roles can experience 15% growth in net revenue by increasing female representation in senior management by 30%⁽¹⁾.

Although African nations do not have nearly as many factories, cars and farms as more industrially developed nations like the US and China, climate change impacts Africa potentially more than any other continent on Earth.

Seventy-five percent of Sierra Leone citizens are employed by agriculture, and this sector accounted for nearly half of the country’s GDP according to a 2012 report published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (Johnson, Johnson, Kandeh, Jalloh & Thomas, 2012). This statistic is surprising when you consider that almost half of the working-age citizens of Sierra Leone are engaged in subsistence farming (Cia.gov, 2016).

In Nigeria, a traditional trade that has existed in one form or another for at least a millennium is now threatened with the prospect of collapse.

In April 2015, the Nigerian government lifted an import ban on foreign textiles that had been in place since 2010.[1] This ban had been intended to protect domestic textile producers from a world market in which their goods were becoming increasingly uncompetitive. Now, with the ban lifted, cheap textile imports from Asia are rapidly flooding the Nigerian market.