Voices

When the news arrived that Rise had cleared the bar for Oscar consideration, it was not a red carpet moment. It was a flurry of messages between Victoria Falls, Harare and Los Angeles, a small team realising that a story born beside a rubbish dump in Zimbabwe now sat inside the same awards process that shapes global film careers. For a country whose cinema has long worked at the edge of international visibility, this was more than a feel good headline. It was a signal that th

On a humid evening beside Dubai Marina, it is easy to spot the visitors who are not just there for the skyline selfies. They walk slower, asking brokers for service charge breakdowns, checking rental listings on their phones, comparing yields with what they know back home in Lagos, Nairobi or London. For a growing number of Africans and diaspora professionals, Dubai property is no longer just a holiday fantasy. It has become a serious question of strategy. Is this still a sma

When Strive Masiyiwa walked journalists through a chilled data hall on the outskirts of Johannesburg this year, the story was not the blinking lights. It was the promise behind them. His company Cassava Technologies had just announced a partnership with Nvidia to build what they call the first AI factory in Africa, a facility packed with thousands of advanced graphics processors designed to turn local data into intelligence at scale. For a continent that has mostly consumed a