Martin Ike-Muonso, a professor of economics with interest in subnational government IGR growth strategies, is managing director/CEO, ValueFronteira Ltd. He can be reached via email at martinoluba@gmail.com


Entrepreneurs do the same thing everywhere regardless of whether they are in Africa, in Europe or the United States. Their business is

Progressive governments want every segment of their society to share in generated prosperity. They strive to increase the number of

The urgency for mainstreaming the apprenticeship system within the continent is evident. That also underscores its substantial

Although the ‘igba-boi’ traditional apprenticeship system of the Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria appears to be the most efficient

Africa has always been a prosperous continent. Apart from its natural resource endowments, it had a long-standing heritage of

A matter of significant concern is the capacity of various African country governments to mainstream the apprenticeship and

The level of prosperity attained by any country is directly proportional to the size of entrepreneurial minds it houses. The extent to

The seeming absence of entrepreneurial consciousness among the governments of African countries considerably hinders their country’s

Africa is a continent bubbling with untapped potentials. The abundance of these untapped resources – human, natural economic – also

Over human history, experiences have repeatedly shown that the market left alone cannot satisfactorily deliver as much prosperity