Ghana is the world's second largest cocoa producer but sees little of the profits from chocolate - for now.
Read moreBy Ijeoma Ndukwe
BBC Business
Lerato Mbele talks to Adubea Jensen, the founder of Ghana's newest beaded handbag company
Lerato Mbele talks to Adubea Jensen, the founder of Ghana's newest beaded handbag company
The food firm making snacks to feed consumer demand in Ghana.
Shoemaker Tonyi Senayah on the challenges for a small firm trying to expand.
Stephen Badu of Tex Styles Ghana explains how their fabrics tell stories.
The Four Cousins vineyard is aiming for a new generation of wine drinkers.
The team behind MCC explain their plans for sparkling wines.
Lerato Mbele talks to Adubea Jensen, the founder of Ghana's newest beaded handbag company
The food firm making snacks to feed consumer demand in Ghana.
Shoemaker Tonyi Senayah on the challenges for a small firm trying to expand.
Stephen Badu of Tex Styles Ghana explains how their fabrics tell stories.
The Four Cousins vineyard is aiming for a new generation of wine drinkers.
The team behind MCC explain their plans for sparkling wines.
The food firm making snacks to feed consumer demand in Ghana.
Shoemaker Tonyi Senayah on the challenges for a small firm trying to expand.
Stephen Badu of Tex Styles Ghana explains how their fabrics tell stories.
By Ijeoma Ndukwe
BBC Business
Striga - or 'witchweed' - is considered the number one pest threat to food security in Africa - destroying billions of dollars worth of crops each year
By Basillioh Mutahi & Zawadi Mudibo
BBC News, Nairobi
Foreign investment into solar products are helping to plug Zambia's power shortage problems.
EY Africa's Sandile Hlophe tells the BBC how foreign direct investment in Africa is faring.
Rwanda has seen a rise in direct investment from Turkish firms over the last decade.
Foreign direct investment to Nigeria will bounce back due the country's youthful society.
More countries in Africa tax internet access, but are they undermining economic growth?
Zanzibar's business owners are learning to diversify as a result of the pandemic.
Malawi is seeing a boom in furniture-making as people look to locally-made goods over exports.
A cardiology nurse returned to Zambia to start a business in vegetable farming.
The port industry is thriving in Cameroon, but it too has seen new challenges due to the pandemic.
Africans are realising that they can't take a slow gradual route to moving businesses online.
The architectural heritage of constructing buildings from red clay is seeing a revival in Senegal.
A Cameroon startup is using mobile and satellite communications to track down stolen cars.
An AI-backed mobile app is helping farmers in rural areas gain critical information for their crops.
The pandemic is forcing architects in South Africa to reconsider how people live.
Russell Padmore
Business correspondent, BBC News
Kenya's flower exporters are enjoying a good year, despite problems caused by the restrictions imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus.
The value of exports like cut flowers reached $1.1bn (£845m) between January and October, almost 9% more than the same period last year.
Kenya's Horticultural Directorate said there was an increase in global demand, despite concerns that the coronavirus pandemic would hit the industry.
Earlier this year the industry was alarmed at disruption caused by airlines being grounded and so unable to fly flowers as cargo to customers in Europe.
Business may have picked up recently but the sector is now growing concerned that the second wave of Covid-19 in Europe is creating uncertainty about demand for flower exports in the coming months.
Alongside exports of tea, horticulture is a major earner of foreign exchange for Kenya, which is the world's fourth biggest exporter of flowers - after the Netherlands, Colombia and Ecuador.
Russell Padmore
Business correspondent, BBC News
A pan-Africa free-trade zone will be launched in January despite the coronavirus pandemic, although some temporary arrangements will need to be put in place, as not all of the customs infrastructure will be ready in time.
The African Continental Free Trade Area aims to bring more than a billion people together in an economic bloc worth about $3tn (£2.3tn) a year and - by reducing barriers to trade - improve living standards.
The continent-wide free-trade zone was supposed to take effect in July, but according to its secretariat, that will happen on 1 January 2021, even if it means creating a system to credit traders retroactively for lower customs duties, which should start immediately.
This week, negotiations resumed between countries to deal with final sticking points around rules of origin and market access.
However the revised January launch date may be optimistic given that 30 of the 54 countries that have signed up for the free-trade zone have yet to ratify the deal.
Africa's biggest economy, Nigeria, ratified it last week, but the country's borders remain closed to nearly all trade, amid efforts to stop smuggling.