When a cleaner works for six households a month, her reputation scatters. A portable, verified record of experience and references is what makes it travel with her.
Section
Intellectual
Deadline Extension Buys Time for Corporate Law Compliance
CIPA extended the deadline for firms to file constitutions from 16 March to 30 September 2026 and now requires disclosure of beneficial ownership.
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC — policy and strategy logic and what comes next
Regional blocs produce declarations far more easily than they produce operational law. That is the standing contradiction in SADC's institutional history, and it is the lens through which the outcomes of the 3rd Africa Blue Economy Week, held in Luanda from 22 to...
People-to-People: The Soft Layer Holding Up the Hardware Story
China and the AU launched a 2026 Year of People-to-People Exchanges in Addis Ababa. The summit was long on symbolism and short on the scholarship and training numbers that sustain it.
Joint Labs: The Quiet Infrastructure China Is Building Without Concrete
Three new China-Africa joint laboratories in soil, crop pests and animal disease are infrastructure you cannot photograph – the kind that decides whether knowledge stays on the continent.
Flora of Kenya: How an Orchid Atlas Became a Knowledge-Economy Test
A volume cataloguing Kenya’s orchids, co-edited by Chinese and Kenyan scientists, is a real research output. Whether it builds Kenyan capacity or just Chinese citations is the deeper question.
The Thinker’s Economy
The WTO’s leading indicator pointing to continued trade resilience is a fact. Turning that fact into a decision is the work of the thinker’s economy and the nine-section architecture built to do it.
The Entrepreneur’s War Room
The World Bank’s 2026 downgrade is less a forecast than a warning to founders: in a year of shocks, scenario planning stops being a luxury and becomes a discipline.
The National Brand Premium
When the World Bank cut its 2026 global growth outlook, it underlined a quieter truth for Botswana: the price a country pays to attract capital is set by its national brand.