Covering all Southern African stories is The African Exponent's Busisiwe. She bases in Pretoria to deliver all significant stories that matter right onto your computer. Storytelling defines her life.
The African Union (AU) has launched its regional passport aimed at facilitating free movement of persons, goods, and services around the continent, in order to foster intra-Africa trade, integration, and socio-economic development. While this is a step forward, the visa-free passport is yet to be made available to all Africans.
When my spiritual mentor was warning me about the dangers of rigidly holding onto a perception, they told me that, “A perception, once held, lives a life of its own until the bearer goes back and changes it or until the bearer experiences an event at significant odds with that
“Israel is coming back to Africa; Africa is coming back to Israel. It's happening in a big way,” These are words of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the launch of the Israeli parliament's caucus for Israel-Africa relations in February. Five months down the line
Innovators are never short of ideas and sometimes these ideas are as startling as they are inventive. In Nigeria, the problem of electricity is widely spread and known to locals whose businesses have either collapsed or declined due to chronic power outages. Despite a connection rate of 96 percent and
This day some forty years ago (June 16, 1976), thousands of South African school children took to the streets to protest the racism and what they called insufficient education. Hundreds of the protesters lost their lives that day, but ever since, this became a turning point for the country’s
For a long time, Kenyan men have had the option of accepting or denying responsibility of children they sired, and the law backed them up. While the men were enjoying this luxury, the women were expected to deal with instant motherhood. “He tricked me, he lied to me, he told
By now, the world knows that the US presidential election will be highly dominated by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and billionaire Donald Trump who will possibly play with Democrats and Republicans cards respectively. Of the two candidates, not much can be said of Trump as a leader,
A lot of things have been going on in Africa, and at long last technology is beginning to gain traction on the continent. Your editors at The African Exponent have put together a list of 7 trends in tech that you should know about. 1) e-Commerce As more Africans get
