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When you travel across Africa, you will not fail to spot the ever growing culture of business cutting across all sectors, from service to manufacturing to processing to building. This urge to struggle to make ends meet is however in itself a serious time bomb. It means much more than[...]
The Chinese strategy for Africa can be summed up in four words, simply as ‘cheap for emerging economies’. This is not to forget that the Chinese manufacturers, not only in the auto industry, invest adequate time to manufacture high quality products for the already established economies such as Europe, Americas[...]
If an American goes to England, his first reaction is : OMG!! They drive on the wrong side of the road! However, mostly except for Britain and her former colonies in Africa, Asia and other places, many countries road rules are predominantly right. In many countries in the world today,[...]
During the first quarter of this year, AfroAutos looked at some of the earliest attempts by African states at developing and manufacturing vehicles from local resources and technical know-how. Most of the states chose to vest this mandate on institutions of higher learning, mainly the universities. Notable among these include[...]
The business of selling cars and parts has grown in complexity beyond layman’s understanding. Technology has taken over most business transactions and the auto sales segment is not an exception. Sale of both used and new vehicles has found a ‘new home’ on the internet platform, and what a display[...]
Featured Articles · News & Events
The 2013 edition of Rhino Charge competition was held on 1st June, in Ol Doinyo Nyokie in Kajiado County. video courtesy of YouTube The event, which has been held every year since 1989, sees participants engage their customized, off-road vehicles in grueling, tough and breath-taking competition to visit several points[...]
In Africa, anything can happen, but as they say in journalism that its news when a man bites dog, its bigger news when a man charges jumbo! Here is one more reason why you may want to stay off drinking sprees for a while yet. There was drama in South[...]
The idea of defensive driving was conceived in USA in 1964 after realization that the minimum driving and traffic rules taught in driving lessons were not very effective. The idea, which Wikipedia describes as ‘driving to save lives, time and money in spite of the conditions around you and the[...]
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The police force has not been left out in the procurement of top of the range vehicles. So, which is the most expensive police car in the world? And what are the qualities that made it preferred for the task? Dubai is now home to the world’s most expensive police[...]
Development & Industry · Featured Articles
Every success is a story. Success is best described as a gradual process and not a one-off incident. It entails conquering numerous challenges, celebrating many booms, and clearly, these do not come all at once. And so it is with the story of the legendary Toyota. Not many have the[...]
