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Work & Wallets

Jobs, remittances, and the money African households earn and spend.

Africa’s unique opportunity for post-pandemic rejuvenation

We need to strategically leverage the unique advantage of Africa – a demographic endowment of a young population of 800 million. Investing in the talents and energies of these young people is essential to building a formidable continental platform of innovation and creative industries, as part of the restructuring of our

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Understanding Technological Unemployment of the Future

We have all basked in the sun of technological advancements. We all celebrate when there is some new technology introduced. From 5G, self-driving cars, and even a drone delivery system, these things promise to make our day-to-day easier and more convenient.  However, with each forward dash we make towards a

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Rwanda to Waive Visa Fees For Africans

Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, said in the UK-Africa summit in London that Rwanda is considering waiving visa fees for Africans entering the country. Also to benefit are Commonwealth and Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) citizens. “The Commonwealth is a community of values, with continued relevance for today’

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Nigeria to Issue Visa-On-Arrival for All Africans

Nigeria has become the latest African nation to adopt the visa-on-arrival policy for Africans, pushing the continent towards achieving effective regional integration. The president of the West Africa country, Muhammadu Buhari, made the announcement today but stressed that the policy would take effect from January 2020. President Buhari confirmed the

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Malawi to Roll Out Online Visa Application

Travelling to Malawi is expected to become easier as the Malawian government is set to roll out an online visa application process on November 1. The e-visa portal will allow travellers to fill and submit visa applications, upload required documents including photos, and pay for visa fees. The online visas

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Rwanda Ambitious to Provide Employment to Libya Migrants

The Rwandan government is making plans to receive hundreds of African migrants from Libya and give them work permits. The country is working with Libya so that migrants looking for greener pastures across the Mediterranean can be given a refreshing chance for a better life and more opportunities.  The plan

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South Africa Grants Visa-Free Access to These Four Countries

If you're traveling from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and New Zealand, you will no longer require a visa to visit South Africa for holidays, conferencing or business meetings, starting from Thursday, 22nd August, 2019. Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi said this during his budget speech

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Ethical Hacking as a Career

Our world now operates on the infrastructure of Information Technology (IT). Every industry, automated or manual, uses an IT system at some point to make the operations easier and more convenient. The efficiency of various industries has gone through a drastic transformation thus making the products and services better and

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Africa Has The Youngest People On Earth. Opportunity Or Disaster?

Newness Is Not Virtue-Oldness Is Not Vice It is a truism that young people are naïve, inexperienced, ideologically malleable and gullible. Their gullibility and naivety are more of harbinger for disaster than that for economic development. What does this mean for the African continent where almost half of the population

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