Promoting Africa
PayPal and Safaricom have announced a collaboration that will allow Kenyans to move money between their M-PESA and PayPal accounts. The new service aims to eliminate barriers that had slowed the growth of global eCommerce in the country. “PayPal’s collaboration with M-PESA is part of the company’s long-term strategy to enable eCommerce and democratise financial…
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The 2018 Commonwealth Games are currently taking place in Australia, and have welcomed more than 6,600 athletes and team officials from 71 Commonwealth nations and territories. Here are a few highlights from some of our African teams attending the event: South Africa Caster Semenya Caster Semenya’s smashing win in which she broke the world record…
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At the age of 27, Salma al-Majidi has broken a lot of barriers as she has now been acknowledged by FIFA as the first Sudanese and Arab woman to coach a men’s football team in the Arab world. A drastic change of mentality In 2012, Sudan’s religious authority, the Islamic Fiqh Council, banned the formation…
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Internationally acclaimed Esther Nikwambi Mahlangu will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Johannesburg for "her legacy as a cultural entrepreneur, skillfully negotiating local and global worlds, and as an educator. 82 years old Esther Mahlangu is a South African artist from the Ndebele nation. She is known for her contemporary paintings that reference…
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Young South African woman Samukelisiwe Cele is breaking with prejudices by showing her country that black women are capable of excelling in surfing, a sport dominated by male, and often considered a whites only sport. Samukelisiwe Cele has always been a huge fun of water sports: “I just loved water sports, I used to be a really…
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Through his play The rise & fall of an African hero, Ricky Dujany helps rediscover the life and death of Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso (1983 -1987). The play inspired by Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", is taking place at the Cockpit Theatre in London. Sankara brought considerable changes to mentality of his country, refused foreign aid (under…
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"Next Einstein Forum Launches Scientific African, an Open Access Multi-disciplinary Journal to Boost the Global Reach of Research From Africa." African scientists have long struggled to get their researches acknowledged and recognized on the continent and globally. To get more work of African scientists seen on a global platform, the Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an…
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