Africa’s literary greats come together at a festival that refocuses African writing to rememory, memorialisation and remembering histories, and curating futures.
Addis Ababa, October 11, 2022 - TheAfrican Land Policy Centre (ALPC) has today launched an anthology of short stories on land governance in Africa. The anthology carries 17 stories from authors drawn from across the continent.
Why Belal El-Megharbel left Careem and shunned his family business
This article originally appeared on the International Financial Corporation (IFC) website. By Gloria Mwaniga Odary
In 2018, when Belal El-Megharbel walked away from a flourishing career at Careem, the Middle East ride-hailing pioneer, his family was stunned. It wasn’t the first time he had turned his back on a promising opportunity; he had left the family business years earlier while on a quest to “take a different route”. His relatives still hoped he would fall back into the family business and work alongside his 24 cousins, but El-Megharbel had other plans. He wanted to build a digital platform to manage procurement and delivery of grocery products to small grocery shops in Egypt.