The Africa Business Agenda has come out of research conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, and is the result of interviews with 1200 CEOs globally, including 31 in Kenya. NTV’s Business Editor, Wallace Kantai, speaks to James Mwangi, Group CEO of Equity Bank, on the Africa Business Agenda. ]]> http://www.africanequity.com/2012/02/22/africa-business-agendajames-mwangi-interview.html/feed 0 http://www.africanequity.com/2012/02/15/african-upside-african-downside-clip-2.html http://www.africanequity.com/2012/02/15/african-upside-african-downside-clip-2.html#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:26:59 +0000 African Equity http://www.africanequity.com/?page_id=56

“You have to really know that business and what makes it profitable and what’s going to impede those cash flows, which is possibly more of a South African risk.” -Graham Stokoe Three veterans of the African private equity market share stories of successful deals across this continent of opportunity. In this third segment of the three-part Privcap series, “Private Equity in Africa,” Hurley Doddy of Emerging Capital Partners, Graham Stokoe of Ernst & Young, and Runa Alam of Development Partners International, share their expert insights, stories of deal success, as well as reasons why they remain very bullish about the future of African private equity. Doddy discusses his firm’s investment in a Nairobi-based company that provides “triple-play” cable connectivity to a growing market; Stokoe discusses a successful student-housing deal he worked on in South Africa; and Alam tells the story of a consumer-credit company that her firm is helping to roll out a pan-Africa strategy. “Yes, Africa is growing at 6 percent a year, but the emerging middle class is growing much faster than that, and if you find an industry that caters to that, you have a story of a rising tide lifts all boats,” says Alam. This program is sponsored by Ernst & Young. A special thanks to the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) for their participation. This video was shot at EMPEA’s and FT Business’s global private equity conference, Capital Impact 2011. ]]> http://www.africanequity.com/2012/02/15/african-upside-african-downside-clip-2.html/feed 0 http://www.africanequity.com/2012/02/08/african-equity---heros-of-the-nation-video-part-3-of-3.html http://www.africanequity.com/2012/02/08/african-equity---heros-of-the-nation-video-part-3-of-3.html#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:57:59 +0000 African Equity http://www.africanequity.com/?page_id=55

www.African-Equity.com Part 3 of a 3 part video showing you around the Heros of the Nation Orphanage in Kenya, Africa. Start of in Nairobi and enjoy the journey as we give you an insight into what African Equity are about. ]]> http://www.africanequity.com/2012/02/08/african-equity---heros-of-the-nation-video-part-3-of-3.html/feed 0 http://www.africanequity.com/2012/02/01/back-to-school-vaccinations.html http://www.africanequity.com/2012/02/01/back-to-school-vaccinations.html#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:41:59 +0000 African Equity http://www.africanequity.com/?page_id=54

(www.abndigital.com) ABN’s Bronwyn Nielsen speaks with Brian McMillan, from Investec Capital Markets, discussing East Asian Equity investing. ]]> http://www.africanequity.com/2012/02/01/investment-360-east-asian-equity-investing.html/feed 0 http://www.africanequity.com/2011/09/21/african-equity---heros-of-the-nation-video-part-3-of-3.html http://www.africanequity.com/2011/09/21/african-equity---heros-of-the-nation-video-part-3-of-3.html#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:41:59 +0000 African Equity http://www.africanequity.com/?page_id=52

www.African-Equity.com Part 3 of a 3 part video showing you around the Heros of the Nation Orphanage in Kenya, Africa. Start of in Nairobi and enjoy the journey as we give you an insight into what African Equity are about. ]]> http://www.africanequity.com/2011/09/21/african-equity---heros-of-the-nation-video-part-3-of-3.html/feed 0 http://www.africanequity.com/2011/09/17/paradoxes-of-desegregation-african-american-struggles-for-educational-equity-in-charleston-south-carolina-1926-1972.html http://www.africanequity.com/2011/09/17/paradoxes-of-desegregation-african-american-struggles-for-educational-equity-in-charleston-south-carolina-1926-1972.html#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:21:59 +0000 African Equity http://www.africanequity.com/?page_id=51

In this provocative appraisal of desegregation in South Carolina, R. Scott Baker contends that half a century after the Brown decision we still know surprisingly little about the new system of public education that replaced segregated caste arrangements in the South. Much has been written about the most dramatic battles for black access to southern schools, but Baker examines the rational and durable evasions that authorities institutionalized in response to African American demands for educational opportunity.

A case study of southern evasions, Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926–1972 documents the new educational order that grew out of decades of conflict between African American civil rights activists and South Carolina’s political leadership. Baker expands the conventional scholarly perspective, which has focused almost exclusively on the NAACP, and explores activism on a local level to desegregate schools, colleges, and universities. During the 1940s, Baker shows, a combination of black activism and NAACP litigation forced state officials to increase funding for black education. This early phase of the struggle in turn accelerated the development of institutions that cultivated a new generation of grass roots leaders.

Challenging Michael J. Klarman’s backlash thesis, Baker demonstrates that white resistance to integration did not commence or crystallize after Brown. Instead, beginning in the 1940s, authorities in South Carolina institutionalized an exclusionary system of standardized testing that, according to Baker, exploited African Americans’ educational disadvantages, limited access to white schools, and confined black South Carolinians to separate institutions. As massive resistance to desegregation collapsed in the late 1950s, officials in other southern states followed South Carolina’s lead, adopting testing policies that continue to govern the region’s educational system.

Paradoxes of Desegregation brings much needed historical perspective to contemporary debates about the landmark federal education law, No Child Left Behind. Baker analyzes decades of historical evidence related to high-stakes testing and concludes that desegregation, while a triumph for advantaged blacks, has paradoxically been a tragedy for most African Americans.

Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972 ]]> http://www.africanequity.com/2011/09/17/paradoxes-of-desegregation-african-american-struggles-for-educational-equity-in-charleston-south-carolina-1926-1972.html/feed 0 http://www.africanequity.com/2011/09/14/actis-is-a-leading-private-equity-investor-in-africa.html http://www.africanequity.com/2011/09/14/actis-is-a-leading-private-equity-investor-in-africa.html#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:26:59 +0000 African Equity http://www.africanequity.com/?page_id=50

(www.abndigital.com) Actis, is a leading private equity investor in Africa. They’ve acquired the Vlisco Group, which producers of variety of popular West African fashion brands. Vlisco boasts strong retail presence in a number of countries including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Benin. To talk us more about the acquisition, is Ngozi Edozien, the Head of West Africa at Actis ]]> http://www.africanequity.com/2011/09/14/actis-is-a-leading-private-equity-investor-in-africa.html/feed 0 http://www.africanequity.com/2011/09/12/back-to-school-vaccinations.html http://www.africanequity.com/2011/09/12/back-to-school-vaccinations.html#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:00:59 +0000 African Equity http://www.africanequity.com/?page_id=49

In this provocative appraisal of desegregation in South Carolina, R. Scott Baker contends that half a century after the Brown decision we still know surprisingly little about the new system of public education that replaced segregated caste arrangements in the South. Much has been written about the most dramatic battles for black access to southern schools, but Baker examines the rational and durable evasions that authorities institutionalized in response to African American demands for educational opportunity.

A case study of southern evasions, Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926–1972 documents the new educational order that grew out of decades of conflict between African American civil rights activists and South Carolina’s political leadership. Baker expands the conventional scholarly perspective, which has focused almost exclusively on the NAACP, and explores activism on a local level to desegregate schools, colleges, and universities. During the 1940s, Baker shows, a combination of black activism and NAACP litigation forced state officials to increase funding for black education. This early phase of the struggle in turn accelerated the development of institutions that cultivated a new generation of grass roots leaders.

Challenging Michael J. Klarman’s backlash thesis, Baker demonstrates that white resistance to integration did not commence or crystallize after Brown. Instead, beginning in the 1940s, authorities in South Carolina institutionalized an exclusionary system of standardized testing that, according to Baker, exploited African Americans’ educational disadvantages, limited access to white schools, and confined black South Carolinians to separate institutions. As massive resistance to desegregation collapsed in the late 1950s, officials in other southern states followed South Carolina’s lead, adopting testing policies that continue to govern the region’s educational system.

Paradoxes of Desegregation brings much needed historical perspective to contemporary debates about the landmark federal education law, No Child Left Behind. Baker analyzes decades of historical evidence related to high-stakes testing and concludes that desegregation, while a triumph for advantaged blacks, has paradoxically been a tragedy for most African Americans.

Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972 ]]> http://www.africanequity.com/2011/09/11/paradoxes-of-desegregation-african-american-struggles-for-educational-equity-in-charleston-south-carolina-1926-1972.html/feed 0