Raye Nyerere 
Picture a nurse in London who sends US$3,000 to her brother in Kumasi to open a laundry service. Six months later the machines are running, customers are coming, and she still cannot say whether the business made a dollar. That gap is the real risk in African diaspora investment. The real question is how to … Read more
This is general information, not legal or tax advice. Confirm specifics with a licensed China immigration or tax professional before acting on anything below. You’ve got your Z visa. You teach English at a school. The salary lands on time. But you also know that one salary no longer stretches the way it used to, … Read more
If you’ve spent time around Xiaobei Road, Sanyuanli, or the warehouse districts of Foshan, you know the rhythm of business here has its own pulse. During the day, the markets are quiet. Many shopkeepers sit behind counters scrolling through their phones. The real energy starts in the late afternoon: phone screens lighting up with messages … Read more
Airtel Money charges in Kenya depend on two things: whether the money stays on the Airtel network, and how much you move. Airtel to Airtel transfers are free at every amount. Agent withdrawals cost between KES 11 and KES 309, and sending to another network costs between KES 7 and KES 108, according to Airtel … Read more
Airtel Money charges in Uganda have two parts on a withdrawal: Airtel’s banded fee and the government’s 0.5% excise duty on the amount you take out. Withdrawing UGX 100,000 costs about UGX 3,800: UGX 3,300 to Airtel and UGX 500 in tax. Sending the same amount costs UGX 1,200, and receiving money is free. The … Read more
Kwame flew from Accra to Nairobi for a six-day sponsored shoot and came home without knowing whether the trip made money or lost it. He had a flight, a hotel, three currencies, a sponsorship, and two payouts still landing on different days, but no real travel budget for African creators to weigh any of it … Read more
Someone in your WhatsApp group mentioned Airtel Uganda shares are up over 100% this year. Someone else says MTN is where the real money is. You half-listen, assume it’s for people with connections at a bank, and go back to your day. That assumption is the only thing standing between most Ugandans and a market … Read more
A software developer in East Legon closes out August with three new client contracts and a waitlist. A guesthouse owner in Elmina closes out the same month wondering whether to lay off two of her four staff. Both are running real businesses in the same country, in the same quarter. The Ghana Statistical Service’s latest … Read more
Beatrice registered her import business in January. By June she had a shop in Kikuubo, three staff, and a supplier relationship in Guangzhou that took months to build. By November she had closed. Not because the products did not sell. They did. She closed because every time she checked her bank balance against what she … Read more
Two things happened to Uganda’s fish export market within weeks of each other. On 10 January 2026, the EU’s new digital CATCH system became mandatory for EU importers submitting catch certificates. On 28 January 2026, Uganda’s farmed fish sector was granted EU market access for the first time. Exporters who already had EU buyers are … Read more