In this issue, we report on the recent UK-Côte d'Ivoire Trade & Investment Forum held in London which was a showcase for the emerging business opportunities available to investors in Investing in Côte d'Ivoire.There is a severe lack of engineering capacity in sub-Saharan Africa, says a report by Africa-UK Engineering for Development Partnership that looks at the causes and suggests remedies. Read more in Engineering Africa.

In Africa-Gives we highlight an exciting philanthropic programme that is providing a pathway for young Africans in the Diaspora to contribute to development in Africa.

As she works to expand her greeting card business, Chichi Okoye reflects on what she has learned from her enterprise and the importance of appreciation in Say It With Cards

In our Opinion section, Ade Sawyerr asks what really drives Africa’s brain drain and how the loss of the continent’s intellectual capital can be reversed in Turning the Brain Drain into Brain Gain.

If you are facing a competency-based job interview, leading career coach Mike Higgins offers a guide on using the Star technique to ace your interview in Shining at Job Interviews.

Also in our Careers section, we continue our ‘Spotlight on...’ series with Dr. Vincent Agyapong, who talks about the joys and challenges of a career in Psychiatry in Spotlight on... Psychiatry.

Our careers coach offers advice on how to be more open in your job search in Ask the Career Coach – Embarrassed to Admit I’m Job Hunting!

Despite two masters’ degrees, a PhD, and a successful career leading global teams, it was her success in climbing the ‘seven summits’ that taught Ania Lichota the real lessons of self-mastery and leadership. Read more about her amazing story in Why the Hell Bother?

If you’re planning to take your business into Africa, you really need to understand your potential market, says Andrea Opoku, who offers useful advice in Who is the African Consumer?

We preview two forthcoming events: Emerging Markets HR Summit 2014, which is running for the 3rd year running and will be held in London, on 1-4 April, and Propak East Africa 2014 Africa , Africa's largest printing, packing and plastics exhibition, which is now coming to East Africa.

Our guest interviewee in this month’s ‘ 5 Minute Interview’ is Jean-Roger Kaseki, Academic & Local Authority Councillor, who shares some of the lessons he has learned along the way.

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We visit the ReConnect Africa Library and we give you another chance to read A Voice for Enterprise in which Washington Kapapiro tells how the Association of African Owned Enterprises is giving a voice to African professionals and entrepreneurs in the UK.

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