Desmond Tutu, the South African cleric and activist who won a Nobel Peace Laureate in 1984 for helping end Apartheid, speaks here about what makes a good leader.

Economist Eleni Gabre-Madhin outlines her ambitious vision to found the first commodities market in Ethiopia. Her plan would create wealth, minimize risk for farmers and turn the world’s largest recipient of food aid into a regional food basket.

“The buck always stops with me,” Oprah Winfrey told South African reporters Monday morning, just hours after Johannesburg police released on bail a dormitory matron accused of assaulting pupils at her school.

The “Fashion In Africa” project was designed to instill pride in African fashion and culture as a whole, but also to celebrate the diversity of African culture and fashion fashioninafrica.com

From African Busines Week: Over 100 million women have undergone female genital mutilation. The Egyptian government tries to stop the practice.

William Kamkwamba at the TED Summit in June 2007. It’s a good thing to provide your family with electricity by building a wind-mill; it’s down right impressive thing when you do it at 14, in a village in Malawi, using nothing but scraps of metal and a bicyle frame. It’s this ‘act now, ask questions [...]

ANGELS IN THE DUST is the inspiring story of Marion Cloete, a university-trained therapist who—with her husband and two daughters—fearlessly walked away from a privileged life in a wealthy Johannesburg suburb to establish Boikarabelo (formerly Botshabelo), an extraordinary village and school that provide shelter, food, and education to more than 550 South African children.