One year ago this week, I left a comfortable senior position at the investment bank, Goldman Sachs, to follow a dream. I re-launched Africa.com, the website that I had kept shuttered for a decade. I made the announcement on the pages of my own website, but amplified my...

By Teresa Clarke, Chairman and CEO of Africa.com

What was 1984? Orwell's best known political novel, the Los Angeles Olympics, the Ethiopian famine, the year I graduated from college, and what else? 1984 was the first time black Americans had a television series...

By Teresa Clarke, Chairman and CEO, Africa.com

Nigeria is a major driver of the economic boom sweeping through Africa. At a conference at the New York Stock Exchange last week, Emmanuel Ikazaboh, the acting CEO of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, predicted that 1000 companies will be...

About 100 days ago, I resigned as a managing director at Goldman Sachs to join those who are rewriting the rules of the game to see Africa win on the global stage. Humanitarians like Bono and Jessica Alba as well as business leaders like Nigeria's newly appointed Minister...

A lot of quizzical looks have come my way as news of my resignation from Goldman Sachs has spread. Why am I leaving a lucrative career as a managing director at a prestigious firm and one of the few senior African-American investment bankers on Wall Street to devote my full...