The strongest thing a domestic worker can carry is a record that separates her own say-so from what someone else can confirm. Five layers for building it.
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Dr. John Alpha Arufandika: Why Africa Needs AI That Speaks Its Own Languages
Dr John Alpha Arufandika, founder of Aptiva AI and winner of the 2025 LIST Emerging Technologies Impact Award, is building secure, private AI in fourteen Southern African languages. African businesses are adopting artificial intelligence at speed, and most of it is...
Five steps to turn a cleaner contact book into an agency
In Zambia, the person who refers cleaners by word of mouth is already halfway to running an agency. Five steps to make it a proper, formalised placement business.
BoFiNet Names Dr Gaone Seleka CEO to Drive Digital Infrastructure
BoFiNet has appointed Dr Gaone Seleka as CEO to expand Botswana’s fibre backbone and cross-border connectivity. What it signals for operators and
Court Rejects Bid to Halt PSBC Secretary Appointment
The Lobatse High Court has dismissed a union bid to block Andrew Motsamai as PSBC Secretary, clearing the way for Botswana’s public-service bargaining-council
The Nine: Who Steers Zambia’s Monetary Policy Committee
Zambia’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee, chaired by Governor Denny Kalyalya with Deputy Governor Chipimo and external members, sets the Bank of Zambia
Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu | The Expansion Architect
In nine years Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu turned a single analysis platform into twelve magazine editions reaching business owners across twenty-four African countries. The method has not changed since the first article. One website and an argument Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu...
Scholarships and Skills: China’s Bet on African Human Capital
China is pledging tens of thousands of scholarships and training places. The dividend depends on whether those graduates come home and find work.
Hawassa’s women: The export line that runs on rural migrants
Industrial parks promise women formal jobs, and Ethiopia’s flagship park is staffed overwhelmingly by young rural migrants, yet the wages testing that promise sit near the poverty line.