Small-Scale, Prototyping Key to Lowering Risk
There is risk in initiating a new project or business. Expats, like you, setting up something new in Africa will face even greater risks than starting something in your home…
Bribes: Don’t Let Them Bring You Down
Transparency International categorizes almost all African countries as very corrupt. Corruption in the form of bribery, embezzlement and extortion are faced by expatriates, as well as nationals, from the local…
Four Challenges Often Overlooked by Expatriates Beginning Work in Africa
There are great rewards for working in Africa. I would not trade my twenty-five years of residence on the continent for anything. The results in changed lives, both mine and…
