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Nigeria’s film industry: a potential gold mine?

11 Apr 2013

As an entrepreneur, 32-year-old chemistry graduate Jason Njoku achieved success in a most unlikely way: he is Africa’s largest distributor of Nigerian movies, and has raked in over $8 million since...

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Malian women create beauty — and profit

15 Apr 2012

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Dialing for cash: mobile transfers expand banking

15 Dec 2011

In Africa, cross-border remittances by phone overcome bank limits

Lesotho’s economy catches flu — from big brother’s sneeze

15 Dec 2011

Hard times trigger policy review

Millennium Villages: a lasting impact?

15 Dec 2011

Aid promotes rapid gains, but dependence may be hard to break

Africa’s famine response — too little, perhaps too late

15 Dec 2011

‘Africa should not wait’ for others to act

Social media for a social cause

15 Dec 2011

Leading by example, Kenyans mobilize support for drought victims

AIDS breakthrough threatened by budget woes

15 Aug 2011

New discovery brings hope, but will the funds be there?

‘NEPAD is an African spirit for renewal’

15 Aug 2011

Ten years old, the plan scores some gains, faces key tests

Africa's least developed: lands of opportunity

15 Aug 2011

At the UN conference on LDCs, focus moves away from aid

Microfinance: What role in Africa's development?

15 Aug 2011

Time to reassess the limits and strengths of small-scale lending