Textbook success
How a jobless young man became a world leader. Fred De Vries | October 2007 issue Lucky Madonsela grew up in an illegal settlement near Duduza township, east of Johannesburg. He had been unemployed for three years when he applied to CIDA in 2004. Once in school, he developed into an exemplary Read More...
Small is Successful
A growing number of businesses discover that getting big is not the best measure of accomplishment. Jay Walljasper| July/Aug 2007 issue In April 17, 2000, Gary Erickson was about to fulfill the wildest hopes of any business entrepreneur. That morning he drove to the Berkeley office of Clif Bar, a Read More...
Profile: George Weah
George Weah, celebrated as the best African soccer player of the 20th century, is scoring a lot more for than goals for his country.Marco Visscher | September 2004 issue In an era when top-ranking soccer players want to be paid to play for their national teams in World Cup competition, George Weah Read More...
Profile: Oumou Sy
Oumou Sy's fashion designs show off Africa's playful, unpredictable spirit. Bram Posthumus | September 2004 issue Although Oumou Sy grew up away from Dakar, Senegal’s cosmopolitan capital, and taught herself the fashion trade, she now reigns as the nation’s premier clothes designer. Read More...
Profile: Rokia Traor
Rokia Traor Ton Maas | September 2004 issue Across Africa, there is considerable discussion over he question of who is the greatest male vocalist—Youssou N’Dour or perhap Salif Keïta? But when it comes to the greatest female, there is little debate. The young Malinese singer Rokia Read More...
Profile: Strive Masiyiwa
From electrotechnician to mobile magnate. Bram Posthumus | September 2004 issue Nowhere is the market for mobile telephony growing faster than in Africa, which is no surprise. The old-fashioned fixed telephone network barely functions. Particularly in major cities, the only way to reach someone is Read More...
The most unusual college in the world
Ode visits KaosPilots--a remarkable business school in Denmark Marco Visscher | October 2005 issue Instead of writing papers for their business class, five Scandinavian students—all of them women—used a school assignment to do a good deed for fellow young people in Bosnia. They rented a Read More...