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A unicorn is a privately held startup company with a valuation of over $1 billion. The term was first popularized by venture capitalist Aileen Lee in 2013. Unicorns are very rare, and there are only a few hundred of them in the world. To become a unicorn, a company must have a number of things...

On October 8, thousands of young people took to the streets of Lagos to call for the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), an infamous police unit accused of extortion, extra-judicial killings, rape, and torture. Since then a lot has transpired in a series of events that would...

Its a new dawn in Africa, the wars have ended, the soldiers have returned to their barracks, democracy is in full swing, and economic growth is at its highest. script: Africa has come a long way since the year 2000 when The Economist published this magazine branding the continent as hopeless...

Upon completion, the Dangote oil refinery will have the capacity to refine 650, 000 barrels of crude oil a day making it Africa's biggest oil refinery and the world's biggest single-train facility. It will also be producing fertilizer as well as other petrochemical products. The facility is...

Are you an African writer? Do you have a story that is set in or about Africa? You can win $100 in Afriforum price for short story, see guidelines for submission http://www.afriforum.net/619/guidelines-for-afriforum-price-for-short-story