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Bassem Loukil

LOUKIL Bassem, Sfax-born Tunisian businessman, is CEO of UADH/LOUKIL Group (35 companies, 4,300 employees across automotive, tech, industry, services). Georgia State BBA & MBA holder, he presides over the Tunisian African Business Council.

Best Universities in Africa

Table showing the best universities in Africa  RankUniversityCountry1University of Cape TownSouth Africa2University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa3The American University in CairoEgypt4Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa5Cairo UniversityEgypt6University of PretoriaSouth Africa7Rhodes UniversitySouth Africa8University of JohannesburgSouth Africa9University of Kwazulu-NatalSouth Africa10Ain Shams UniversityEgypt11Al Azhar UniversityEgypt12Alexandria UniversityEgypt13Makerere UniversityUganda14N

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Why Energy Poverty Is Holding Africa Back And What to Do About It

Nigerians like to use humor to make sense of frequent power outages. They turned the formerly National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), the parastatal that ran the nation’s grid, to “Never Expect Power Always”. And when the company changed its name to Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), humor quickly

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Corporate Thieves of Africa's Wealth and Resources

Abstract: Capital flights occur in Africa more than any region in the world. This happens through organized schemes between African leaders and western companies. Despite the huge deposits of natural resources, Africans and Africa remained mired in extreme poverty and hardships due to corruption and governance crisis. Corporate corruption and

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Swaziland Orders Schools to Teach Christian Religion Only

Swaziland, a small country in Southern Africa has a constitution that guarantees freedom of belief yet the government pulled a shocker as recently as this week. Schools in the country are going to be teaching Christianity alone in a move widely considered to be an indirect attack on the Islam

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All You Need to Know About the African Cup of Nations: Group A

The African Cup of Nations kicks off on the 14th of January and the whole continent’s eyes will be glued on Gabon’s Stade de I’Amitie in Libreville for the first match pitting the hosts against the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon. What a match it promises to be

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10 African Inventors You Did Not Know

When the word invention resonates, the first pick of the mind is Japan, Germany, Korea and the United States. This has over time changed as other countries have joined the race of producing inventors and inventions with a wow effect. Africa has not also been left out in this new

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“We Are One People,” Doesn't Mean Race No Longer Matters

Unity in Diversity, or, Unity of Diversity? There’s no way saying, “we are one people”, is going to create unity until we understand that, it is actually in our racial differences that unity dwells. Yeah! It’s a paradox of life. Ha-ha. In their bid to create unity, by

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Botswana: A Successful Model for Africa to Follow

With the advent of independence in 1966, Botswana did not have an attractive future by any standard. With a per capita income of $70, 12 km of paved road and a GDP dependent largely on agricultural exports, the country was on a socio-economic death row. However, with changes following the

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The World’s Fittest Children are in Tanzania

A new study by PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine recently found that Tanzania’s children are the fittest in the world. This is contrary to the popularised view of sickly African children spread by the donor community in the West.

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