Promoting Africa
Akon will not stop impressing us! The star rapper and renewable-energy entrepreneur, is considering an initial public offering of his Chinese-funded solar business in Africa. The Akon Lighting Africa initiative which has been moving at a really rapid pace, has been looking at ways to fuel an intercontinental expansion. In just three years, the initiative has completed 203,200 small-scale…
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Launched on January 1, 2017 in Abidjan by the entrepreneur Barthélemy Kouamé, Timmon is a mobile application enabling individuals to exchange small sums of money with traders. Its objective is to fill the lack of small currency in the Ivorian economic capital. How Timmon application works Once the application is downloaded to a smartphone through…
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If you do not know Kiro'o Games, then it's time! Also known as Kiro'o Studios, Kiro'o Games, is a private video, animation, development and publishing company, created in 2003 by Madiba Olivier and based in Yaoundé. In two years (2013-2015), the Cameroonian video game studio Kiro'o Games, raised 130 million CFA francs (198,000 euros) throughout the world to…
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Hundreds of millions of people live without access to the grid in Africa. Too expensive to put up, the grid might most likely never reach them. An alternative to is, is what we call off-grid. Lumos Global is an off-grid solar provider operating in Nigeria. The company offers Pay-as-you-go off-grid solar energy solutions which are on the…
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The company KmerPad produces washable and reusable sanitary napkins entirely made in Cameroon, and less expensive than disposables. The creation of the company In Africa, one in ten girls do not go to school during their menstruation (NGO Plan International). To cope with the desertion of the classes of young Cameroonians during their menstrual periods,…
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UniRank, the international higher education directory reviewing accredited Universities and Colleges in the world, recently provided its 2017 top 200 best African universities. UniRank™ includes 12,358 Colleges and Universities, ranked by web popularity, in 200 countries. In this 2017 ranking, South African Universities are at the top, followed by Kenya's University of Nairobi and Egypt (The American University…
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We are presenting you Enda, Kenya's first running shoe created by Navalayo Osembo-Ombati and Weldon Kennedy, in 2015 as a Benefit Corporation. As you might already know, Kenya is home to generations of world's greatest distance runners. Kenya's North Rift Valley sees every year, runners from around the world train on it's roads with the…
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