Feint and Margin

Every entrepreneur wants their small business to be successful so every segment of professional advice can go a long way in obtaining business goals. Consultants to a business offer invaluable expertise that aim to help your business succeed, or achieve its goals. According to the latest survey done on the ease of doing business in [...]

Increasingly, Ghana has been caught on the wrong side of mining activities from almost every corner of the country. Week in and out, news filters in about pollution of streams which serve as sources of drinking water to many, death of miners from collapsing pits and huge pits that have been left uncovered from excavation [...]

So where do we begin? In my thought we need to create a platform where the African story will be communicated to the world in our own way on our terms. This is because in the midst of the poverty, suffering, wars and mal administration there are some positive things happening on the African continent. [...]

This is part one of Branding Article. Feint and Margin will publish the second part in next weeks publication. “I am an African by identity and a South African by citizenship” I began this article with this statement as I look at some of the issues that are hampering the progress of the African continent [...]

The increasing dominance of private capital in the past 25 years has not had the anticipated impact on poverty alleviation in Ghana, and elsewhere.  Even the World Bank, that all knowing macro economic sage, must be ruing the consequence of its indiscriminate imposition of the ‘Washington Consensus’ on developing countries.  As Ghana’s recent floods show, [...]

A recent Econometrix Karoo Shale Gas Report estimates that the commercial exploitation of Shale Gas Resources in the Karoo in South Africa, will add hundreds of billions of rands in value to the South African economy and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs (around 700 000 to be exact) by the conclusion of the [...]

A few years ago, I happened upon an article that was entitled the art of strategic questions. The premise of the article was that for people to make significant advances they need to ask the right questions to solve any type of problem. It is upon this premises that I base my thoughts in this [...]

Following an article I wrote recently, titled, Africanisation And Globalisation: Are They Diametrically Opposed to Each Other, one of our South African readers, gave the following feedback, “Mugabe, well written article and very enlightening; something I have been pondering, would be interesting if you could shed light on the notion of Africanism in the context [...]

 I want to start a revolution. Don’t be mistaken. I am not planning a second round of the Arab spring. Besides, if I were to set myself on fire like Mohammed Bouazizi, I would not start a revolution. My own African brothers and sisters would probably think I’m the second Ernesto Alfabeto Nhamuave who was [...]

We’ve been seeing them in unexpected places for the past few years: African print bags and belts paired with black cocktail dresses; office wear incorporating ATL (Akosombo Textiles Limited) fabric; and clubbing outfits completely tailored from African print or featuring African fabric in some way. Yes, clothes and accessories made from African textiles have always [...]