Tag: Africa

Jerome Powell & The Chocolate Factory

The Mayans, Aztecs & Olmecs Traded Using Cocoa, I Guess This Is Why! Retail chocolate prices are rising (and will increase much further, while shrinkflation will take hold) after wholesale cocoa prices surged to an unthinkable all-time high of $10,000 a ton recently. For sake of reference, it was $2,500 USD a ton a year […]

Botswana: Diseases and Diamonds

Betting it all on this: Botswana. Here it is… a landlocked country in Southern Africa. According to the numbers, Botswana is as close to a developed country as Africa has ever had. Here are some figures that make them stand out There’s a lot of interesting features that have enabled it to be an exception […]

Where you can flee, to stay CBDC-Free

This Is Serious–Consider This Now! A lot of people have taken a doomsday approach to the issuance of a Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) which resembles China’s infamous social credit score; a method regulating every single behaviour of their population to confirm with the state’s mandate, ideology or desires. Recently, it has been in the […]

Business Prospects in Africa

It’s been remarked throughout the years that given the inherent instability of the place, Africa is a great place for a young man to make his fortune. Go in, get rich, get out.

However upon closer examination, this is far from a simple solution. As a matter of fact…

You Need To Read This About Ghana Right Now

What’chu Ghana do about it? I’ve gotten off a call recently with a Namibian lawyer whereby we were talking about the company structures and tax details. We were talking about how lots of legal proceedings are out-of-date, simply unknown or resort to case law in court. Unfortunately, my plans were deemed not feasible and the […]

The Largest Disaster on Earth

Shocking Numbers from Africa This is data is taken from the 2022 Ibrahim Index of African Governance–the most thorough, intensive research report I’ve seen on the continent. I’m in the process of breaking down some important results (by overall governance trends and then it’s individual categories) that I strongly encourage you to check out by […]