Forbes Africa

The old man would have been proud. You could find your way to the party of the year, blindfolded, by following the skirl of the pipes and whiff of fine whiskey. The lowly Scottish roots of Bertie Charles Forbes – the son of a humble tailor of New Deer, Aberdeenshire – were bound up with […]

Lilian Ajayi-Ore is creating an environment where students can play a role in creating solutions for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment. “The world needs a lot of help,” sighs Lilian Ajayi-Ore at the other end of the line in New York the Friday evening we speak to her from Johannesburg. “If we are being completely […]Read More

Monty Munford , CONTRIBUTOR Africa is heating up and on fire. That statement, for once, has nothing to do with climate change, but with investor interest and technology momentum. This modern-day scramble for Africa also has nothing to do with the colonization of African territory by European powers between 1881 and 1914, but is rather about the […]

Bisila Bokoko is like the wine she sells – made in Spain with an African accent. I am inordinately held up in Manhattan’s unpredictable traffic even as Bisila Bokoko waits endlessly for me at the Les Ambassades patisserie in Harlem. She has promised to show me around the African-American neighborhood with its vibrant alfresco cafes, […]

Armed with the latest iPads, loaded with sophisticated analytical software, 26 of the country’s top motoring journalists will soon gather at a country hotel outside Johannesburg with a single aim in mind: deciding the South African Car of the Year (COTY) 2018. It may seem like an insurmountable task to compare the wallet draining German […]

Flying taxis sound like a futuristic idea, but Uber wants to test the idea in Los Angeles by 2020. The traffic-laden city is the second city in the US, following Dallas-Fort Worth, to be selected as a test bed for UberAir’s network of air taxis. Uber’s plan is to string together a network of electrical vertical take-off and […]Read More

The net worth of billionaire Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud—who was detained by the Saudi government on Saturday as part of what officials have called an anti-corruption campaign—is continuing to fall dramatically. Alwaleed’s fortune dropped $855 million on Tuesday as the share price of his holding company, Kingdom Holding—which trades on Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul exchange—continued […]Read More

Starbucks chairman and former CEO Howard Schultz has never been one to hold back on giving his opinion about the state of the country. On Thursday, speaking at the DealBook conference in New York City, Schultz continued his outspoken streak – especially when it came to the subject of the GOP’s new tax proposal, which has suggested lowering the corporate tax rate […]Read More

To the uninitiated, Nigerian-American actress Yvonne Orji plays Molly in Insecure, a popular HBO comedy series offering a fresh take on the lives of black women as they navigate joy, pain, insecurities, successes and failures. The role calls for a melange of emotions and she fits the bill. When we speak to Orji, the outspoken […]

It is very rare that altruism and art find a common meeting place. We find both on the 22nd floor of a Sandton skyscraper, where businesswoman and philanthropist Saloni Wahi is hard at work. There’s aesthetics everywhere in her bright, beautifully-appointed home – the paintings on the walls, the handcrafted pottery in the foyer, even […]

Both Uber and Waymo found themselves being scolded by a federal judge who called one side “greedy” and accused the other of repeatedly misleading the court. During a tension-filled court hearing on Wednesday in San Francisco, Waymo asked the court to hold Uber and its lawyers in contempt for dragging their feet when it comes to disclosing information about […]Read More

La La Land – the city and its celluloid namesake – has been very kind to Emma Stone. At just 28 years old, the Hollywood star is this year’s highest-paid actress, banking $26 million pretax in our 12 month scoring period. Stone has her earnings from the movie-musical to thank for the bulk of her payday, […]