THE African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, AVCA, has revealed that African Private Equity, PE, has remained robust with the total value of fund raising increasing by 12.5 percent to USD2.7 billion in 2018 from USD2.4 billion in 2017, indicating investors’ ongoing confidence in African PE.

On a cold, grey Sunday morning, in a London street lined with shuttered builders’ yards and storage units, songs of prayer in the Nigerian language of Yoruba ring out from a former warehouse that is now a church.

 President Muhammadu Buhari has called on African leaders to support processes that will ensure stronger political institutions across the continent as only strong political institutions will guarantee stability, peace and economic progress.

To understand the history of education in Africa, adequate knowledge of the traditional or indigenous educational system which existed before the arrival of Islam and Christianity is needed. Islamic education was not formally established in Nigeria until the fourteenth century and Christian education came in the nineteenth century. But indigenous education persists even today, showing no sign of disappearance from the scene of education.

African Development Bank, AfDB, has expressed concern that many African owned firms are forced to drop out of the market due to unfair competition from Chinese companies.