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Why do Africa’s Oil Producing Economies need to diversify? By James Adair, Executive Search Consultant

There appears to be growing confidence in the oil industry and beyond that the market is turning a corner in 2017, having bottomed out last year.  I don’t share this confidence and can’t see oil prices rising this year, next year, or any time soon for that matter. Furthermore I think some of the indicators, […]

What I learnt about business in Africa from rowing across an ocean, by James Adair, Executive Search Consultant

In April 2011 I set off from Geraldton, Western Australia, with my Kenyan friend, Ben Stenning, and rowed the 3,500 miles west to the island of Mauritius, off the east coast of Madagascar.  It took us 116 days and during that time we experienced all of the highs and lows you could expect from operating […]