Forbes Africa

THE ANNUS HORRIBILIS THAT WAS 2020, the year of the mask, is not behind us, yet. For global economies, mostly, there is a sentence the world uses on Zoom every day that could be applied to describe their predicament – ‘You are on mute’. When can we u

A SUBLIME REALITY OF being human is that we all have divergent points of view; we may arrive at the same destination but many of us like taking the scenic route since we prefer learning from our own experiences and sometimes, mistakes. However, the w

STRICTLY COME DANCING ON THE BBC IS arguably one of the biggest shows in the United Kingdom. And 2020 saw, for the first time since the ballroom and Latin dancing show started in 2004, back-to-back wins for a South African contestant. Pretoria-born

The UNICEF released a report in November last year titled COVID-19: A Catastrophe for Children in Sub-Saharan Africa, stating that prolonged school closures due to Covid-19 have presented multiple problems in the sub-Saharan African region. There is

THERE WAS PERSONAL DILIGENCE IN conducting the research for this story, as this writer too tested positive for Covid-19 at the end of December, in South Africa, a country that recorded a million coronavirus infections that same week. Following the st

AFRICA’S TRADE RELATIONSHIPS HAVE BEEN irreversibly affected by three events – the Covid-19 pandemic and two important trade agreements. At midnight on 31 January 2020, the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) officially

TURNS OUT THAT in Africa – as elsewhere in the world – it doesn’t hurt to be a billionaire during a global pandemic. As a group, the continent’s 18 billionaires are on average worth $4.1 billion, 12% more than a year ago, partially driven by Nigeria’

THE MAN WHO FAMOUSLY SAID THAT HE WOULDN’T BE HAPPY UNTIL WE WERE ALL LIVING ON MARS, IS NOW ONE OF THE RICHEST MEN ON EARTH. WHILE ELON MUSK’S PLANS TO BE BURIED IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY REMAIN UNCHANGED, HE’S STILL GOT MUCH TO CELEBRATE IN THE H

WITHOUT DOUBT, COVID-19 HAS EXACERBATED gender inequalities and deepened the chasm for women, as they continue to be disproportionately affected by the pandemic. These unprecedented times have highlighted raging issues around poverty, gender-based vi

PATRICK SOON-SHIONG KNOWS when he realized that the Covid-19 pandemic was going to pose a serious threat. It was February 24, 2020, and the part-owner of the L.A. Lakers was at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for Kobe Bryant’s memorial service. Wit

AFTER SEVEN LONG DAYS AND sleepless nights in March, Tory Burch’s impeccably decorated library in her red-brick home in the Hamptons officially became a war room. Pierre-Yves Roussel, her husband and the chief executive of her eponymous fashion compa

COVID-19 MAY HAVE taken a toll on the economy but some entrepreneurs sought to see the silver lining in dark clouds, turning ideas into viable businesses with small teams and bigger dreams. They are local and proud, creating products relevant for tod

AFRICANS LOVE THEIR MEAT. AT LEAST that’s the reductive, persistent narrative, even when the data tells a more complicated story: according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), average meat consumption in African countries

AS COUNTRIES begin to grapple with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, rapid adoption of activities outside the traditional content-streaming platforms is now beginning to gain traction. The puzzles market is one such. Focusing on jigsaw and

IT WAS ONE OF THOSE RARE OCCASIONS when bold neon colors, oversized white outdoor workwear and bright uncoordinated prints made their way on to the ramps of the annual Swahili Fashion Week in Tanzania. Local fashion designer, Anjali Borkhataria’s bra

IT’S SIMPLE: BEING CONNECTED 24X7 BLURS WORK- life boundaries. And with so many employees working from home on a semi-permanent basis, remote work life in the time of the coronavirus pandemic has been a brilliant move for some corporates. Google, for

“I SENT MY GIRLFRIEND A VIRTUAL love letter. I proposed and we had a full-on virtual Animal Crossing engagement – it took me months to put together.” “I couldn’t go down to Durban at the end of the year, so my friends and I met up in Fortnite inste

AS THE ROUGH BEAST THAT WAS 2020 slouches off into the past, a more benevolent creature is stirring. Some say it’s a horned serpent, or a horse-giraffe-crocodile hybrid; others call it a fearsome dragon, or a rainbow-colored mystery that descends wit

NEWLANDS CRICKET GROUND IN CAPE TOWN, South Africa, is one of the most iconic venues in global sport with its stunning backdrop and rich history that dates back more than 130 years, but like many stadiums has faced challenges around its financial sus

THE OLD ENGLISH ADAGE, ‘AS HARD AS REACHING Timbuktu’ is not uncommon in the Anglophone world. The successes of Victorian English conquests of Africa somehow did not materialize in Mali. Disease, harsh terrain and ruthless chieftains kept them from