In case you missed the memo, Africa is rising. Having been largely ignored in the development of the Internet, things have been changing rapidly in the past decade with telecommunication companies forming alliances with financial institutions to bring serious data connectivity into Africa, and with it, lots of potential for prosperity. You can thus understand [...]

For anyone who travels regularly across the land borders within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the notoriety and cruelty of the uniformed officials along the route would be a regular reality. Extortion and brutality is the order of the day, along the land borders. Travellers (especially citizens of ECOWAS countries) are routinely [...]

Paypal Nigeria: How to open a paypal account in Nigeria? Why Paypal is not available in Nigeria.

I found out (to my pleasant surprise), while browsing through the Paypal website yesterday that the service is now accessible in more African countries. The recent expansion of Paypal is not limited to African countries but my focus is on Africa. Hitherto, South Africa had been the only African country supported by Paypal. The popular [...]

Africa is parading five nations in this years edition of one of the world’s most popular sports event, the World Cup. Out of the five nations, four are featuring in the World Cup for the first time ever. These countries are Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Angola with the exception of Tunisia who have featured [...]

Africa, once a great continent, has sadly been dropped to the bottom of the ladder, in every sense of the word, globally. Every thing negative is in abundance here. Name it: Corruption, Mediocrity, Civil wars, Famine, Bad leadership, poorly managed economies, Poor infrastructure, HIV/AIDS, Low GDP, High Mortality rate etc. The political atmosphere in many [...]