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ALN builds and broadly shares a body of knowledge and research about how Africa can create prosperity. Browse through some of our featured articles and reports below.
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Lifting Africa up by empowering its youth
Finding opportunities for young people is a critical challenge for Africa, where 62 percent of the population—more than 600 million young people—is below the age of 25. With no signs
Why we launched the African Leadership Academy
My colleagues and I were inspired to start ALA because we were tired of complaining about the state of affairs in Africa and not doing anything about it. Each ofOur Members Perspectives
Ethical and entrepreneurial leadership needed for SA By: Abey Mokgwatsane
South Africa needs a new breed of leadership to address the country’s challenges and promote a flourishing democracy. South Africa has one of the highest levels of inequality in the
My Transcultural Media Ventures by Claude Grunitzky
Last October, I was diagnosed, by my Sloan Fellow cohort at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as an “entrepreneurial creative.” How, as a Togolese-French-American magazine publisher and editor I gotUnparalleled regional trade expansion
Ethiopia’s trade with its neighbors is likely to present a major business and economic opportunity in the coming few years. This is made possible due to bilateral and multilateral tradeMining sneaking to the front
Unlike the rest of the continent of Africa, Ethiopia was never colonized by a European power. The consequence for mining is that Ethiopia is also one of the least exploredPerspectives We Share
The Rise of the African Consumer – a report from McKinsey’s Africa Consumer Insights Center
Africa’s consumer-facing industries are expected to grow by more than $400 billion by 2020.1 That would account for more than half the total revenue increase that all businesses are expected
New Africa looks at New Europe by Joshin Raghubar, CEO, iKineo
(Edited version of a presentation delivered on the 28th of June 2011 outside Berlin to emerging German and European public sector and media leaders at the Summer Academy Europe, an
ONE Campaign: What does the world really want from the next global development goals?
Ensuring that the world’s poor define the post-2015 framework. Introduction Over three years before they are due to take effect, the quest to establish the next round of global development
MGI Lions on the move african economies
The McKinsey Global Institute The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), established in 1990, is McKinsey & Company’s business and economics research arm. MGI’s mission is to help leaders in the commercial,
A review of Moky Makura’s book “Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs”
Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs: A book about Africa’s business success stories “Until lions learn to write, hunters will tell their history for them” Review by David Fick Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs comprises
Africa Progress Report 2012 – Africa Progress Panel
The 2012 Africa Progress Report, launched today by the Africa Progress Panel, warns that Africa’s strong economic growth trajectory – which will see the region increase the pace of growth
Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustaining Growth amid Global Uncertainty – International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today released the May 2012 Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa . Ms. Antoinette Monsio Sayeh, Director of the IMF’s African Department, commented on the report’s
Building Bridges: Africa’s Attractive Survey 2012 – Ernst & Young
The second edition of Africa Attractiveness builds on the theme of the African growth story, while emphasising the need to bridge a perception gap that continues to exist among many
Pioneers on the Frontier: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Multinational Corporations
At the Frontier 100 Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, the Initiative for Global Development and Dalberg Global Development Advisors released Frontier 100′s report - Pioneers on the Frontier: Sub-Saharan
