Oxford Africa Conference, Owning Africa's Story

Oxford Africa Conference, Owning Africa's Story

With its reputation for academic rigour and high quality critical thinking, it would be easy to assume that this year’s Oxford Africa Conference would leave little to the imagination and bombard guests with heavy factual and numerical content. Luckily, all attendees: the President of Ghana, CEOs, Poet Laureates and audience members included, approached the event with a keenness to learn and most […]

Oxford Africa Conference 2015 Preview

Oxford Africa Conference 2015 Preview

  The University of Oxford has and probably always will be associated with the kind of informed, passionate and rigorous discussion needed to birth innovation and drive meaningful change globally. This weekend, Oxford take another step towards cementing their position as international influencers, as members of their world-renowned SAID business school and those with a keen interest in all things Africa, gather […]

LSE Africa Business Summit

LSE Africa Business Summit

After a stressful week at work, rising at 6:30 am on a Saturday and racing to Holborn must sound unideal right? Wrong – at least insofar as you’re up and out to hear the brightest minds in business and politics discuss development issues and their solutions vis-à-vis Africa. I arrived at LSE’s New Academic Building, caught up with the Movemeback team and was […]

Ubuntu – The Essence of African Business

Ubuntu – The Essence of African Business

Ubuntu. I first heard the word in an A-level poetry class and was immediately struck by the beauty of the idea. A term which refers to the practise of human kindness, as someone with few examples of Ubuntu in practice, I underestimated its prevalence across African communities. Its presence even leaves traces in different dialects: “I am because we are” […]