Adeye is The African Exponent's West African Correspondent based on Abuja, Nigeria. He covers all West African Stories that matter with a slick African style.
The African continent is moving from aid reliance to self-sustainability with support from various development partners including Japan. On Tuesday (July 19), the Royal African Society (RAS) in association with the Government of Japan held talks to brainstorm on how Japan can work with African nations to attain development. The
Zimbabwean business mogul, Dr. Strive Masiyiwa was recently in Washington D.C to speak at the White House Summit for Global Development where President Barack Obama and Gayle Smith, the Administrator for U.S. Agency for International Development also took to the stage. The Summit included entrepreneurs, diplomats, civil society
Now that the British voted to leave the European Union, African economies are already struggling from slowing demand from China. Flat commodity prices have now been thrown into confusion along with the rest of the world. Many emerging markets and frontier asset markets will come under pressure. Much will depend
Multi-billionaire and founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates has said that Africa’s future is determined by how healthy and skilled or knowledgeable today’s youth are. He was delivering his speech at the 14th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture Series at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi campus on Sunday, before
Inadequate electricity continues to be a stumbling block to development for many people in Tanzania’s rural areas. Renewable energy can solve such challenges, but the cost of packaging the natural energy into electricity, result into expensive solar kits that are out of reach to the villagers. One solar company,
Every morning Sheila has to walk more than six kilometers each way to get to and from school. The fifteen-year-old has to depart home early to get to school in time. While many of her friends have dropped out of school, one of the reasons being distance, Sheila is determined
“Perception is the world and the world is perception”, said my spiritual mentor. Could the Harvard based neurosurgeons have heard my mentor’s words? A Harvard-based Neurosurgeon, Ann-Christine Duhaime, wants to harness the power of perception so as to help transform human minds, with regards to how they perceive their
World poverty is falling thanks to the progress achieved by Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) between 2000 and 2015, and it is expected to fall even further with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set for 2030. However, if nothing is done to step up progress to meet development goals in the
It takes guts to quit a job. It takes guts and passion for one to leave a well-paying job and start an initiative aimed at helping people in the society. That is exactly what Patrick Awuah, a former employee of Microsoft, did some fifteen years ago, and he has never
There is nothing democratic about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – North Korea. The leader, Kim Jong Un is a despot, a worshipped militaristic totalitarian tyrant with no regrets. He has a reckless foreign policy which he keeps taking to new levels of callousness. His high-point was the nuclear
In many developing markets, there is critical workforce shortages in healthcare facilities leading to high numbers of people succumbing to diseases which could have been treated had they received treatment. Africa ranks the lowest in the availability of health personnel. In a bid to support the development of sustainable healthcare
Africa has a unique chance to leapfrog developed countries and lead the way in building Smart Cities. There is a great potential for the continent becoming the international model for smart urbanization but there is a growing drive to avoid the trap of overexcitement. Konza City in Kenya has been
When Europe announced its grand plans of using the Saharan heat to generate electricity to feed into its grid, it seemed like a blessing to North Africa as it seemed almost obvious that a lot of people would get jobs and economies would develop. This is the abstract idea one
On Friday, in the Horn of Africa in Gambella, Ethiopia, gunmen raided and took 2,000 head of livestock and kidnapped 108 children. The assailants were from South Sudan and it would seem they have previously carried out the same types of raids albeit on a smaller scale. The attackers
Kenya is losing a third of its state budget - the equivalent of about $6 billion - to corruption every year, the country's new anti-graft chief told Reuters, saying his agency was badly short of staff and modern equipment to tackle the problem. Philip Kinisu, a retired auditor,
With a population of more than 1 billion, Africa has obvious potential to become the world’s leading startup ecosystem. Unfortunately, that opportunity has been undermined by poor infrastructure and hefty bureaucracy. Nonetheless, most African countries are changing, and a new generation of startups is throwing aside the red tape
