In this issue, we review a report that says that prospects for African retail and consumer businesses remain positive and PwC’s in-depth study into the make-up of Sub-Saharan Africa’s retail and consumer goods industries in So Much in Store for Africa.

Despite the continent’s economic challenges, young African entrepreneurs are overwhelmingly upbeat about the future, says a new report by the Anzisha Prize called Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs: Creating Employment despite Challenges.

When books read by young black people don’t depict young black people, what is an enterprising black author and publisher to do? We ask Chimaechi Allan, founder of Kio Global in our People & Diaspora section in Educating Culture.

Communication during change is one of the biggest pitfalls of leadership. Leadership coach Vera Ng’oma offers tips on how to take your team with you through changing times and priorities in Leading Change Positively.

In Dealing with Rejection in Job-Search career coach and author, Frank Thaxton, offers some helpful advice on how to handle the demoralising rejection letters that come with any job search. In Ask the Career Coach - How Do I Cope with my Toxic Work Environment? our resident career coach advises on how to make the best of a bad situation at work.

In our Conferences section, we preview Infrastructure Africa 2016. The 2016 Infrastructure Africa Business Forum in June will partner with the African Development Bank to focus on Africa’s regional gender equality within the infrastructure space. Also in June is the Invest in Data Center Africa Summit and Datacloud 2016 co-locating the inaugural ’Invest in Data Center Africa’ event. The first of its kind, this exciting one-day Summit will explore the next phase of data center and public cloud development across the continent.

Our guest interviewee in this month’s ’5 Minute Interview’ is Anthony Henry who shares some of the lessons she has learned along the way in Anthony Henry - Entrepreneur, Speaker and Lifestyle Coach.

May and June see an extensive line-up of events in the UK and overseas and our Events listing gives you details of what’s on and some un-missable Dates for your Diary.

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Catch up on news from the UK and around the world in bite sized chunks with our International News Round feature.

We visit the ReConnect Africa Library and we give you another chance to read Afrimari - Connecting Africa’s Maritime Professionals. Afrimari (African Maritime) is a professional networking group specialising in the dynamic and fast-growing African maritime, energy and trade related sectors.

Finally, check out this month’s Editorial –Freedom Rules – and let me know what you think.

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