Africa Wealth Cheque Report, a research by Africa investor (Ai) in partnership with The Africa Group (TAG) has identified US $1.671 trillion of potential wealth and additional production potential in six key sectors (agriculture, water, fisheries, forestry, tourism and human capital). This represents a combined market size today of $909 billion and $762.4bn of additional [...]

A professional journalist and an emerging writer, Jen Ehidiamen is committed to exploring and using the media as an advocacy tool for youth development and empowerment. She writes a column called “Dis Generation” in The Nation newspaper and blogs at Youth Making Change. Jen is CP-Africa’s Features Editor. Have you seen SALT yet? British-Nigerian Chiwetel [...]

Nmachi Jidenma is Founder/Publisher of CP-Africa.com. She is passionate about African development and is a strong promoter of positive trends on the continent. You can follow her on twitter here and you can read her personal blog here In this video Lagbaja collaborates with a Spanish singer and they both croon to an African inspired [...]

(CP-Africa)- CNN has an interesting video feature on how the use of mobile phones are helping solve access to health care and coordination problems in Rwanda. -For instance, hospitals are tracking expectant mothers via text messages. Expectant mothers also text updates to the hospitals about their health statuses and all these are stored in a [...]

Nmachi Jidenma is Founder/Publisher of CP-Africa.com. She is passionate about African development and is a strong promoter of positive trends on the continent. You can follow her on twitter here and you can read her personal blog here The LWKMD Tour debuted in mid July with a show in Washington D.C. Featuring comedy acts such [...]

(CP-AFRICA) – The World Bank recently announced its decision to support Nollywood with about $30 million in funding. The Bank disclosed that it visited some local banks to ask why they weren’t funding Nollywood projects and that the banks insisted that they found Nollywood projects to be too risky. The World Bank thus decided to [...]

Nigeria’s national awards are given to not only the good, but also the bad and the ugly in Nigeria. This needs to stop!

Statement on the President’s Forum with Young African Leaders (THE WHITE HOUSE) – In 2010, seventeen countries across sub-Saharan Africa celebrate fifty years of independence. In honor of this important historic moment; in acknowledgement of the extraordinarily young demographic profile of the region; and as part of an effort to forge strong, forward-looking partnerships in [...]

(CP-Africa) – Nigeria is set to hold its presidential elections this January. This news was reported by Reuters. The move came after the Nigerian House of Representatives passed a constitutional amendment to move the polls forward from May. You can view the announcement on Reuters here Is this a welcome development? Share your thoughts!

Nmachi Jidenma is Founder/Publisher of CP-Africa.com. She is passionate about African development and is a strong promoter of positive trends on the continent. You can follow her on twitter here and read her personal blog here With the buzz the continent has been getting from its fast growing mobile phone penetration rates, it is no [...]