Promoting Africa
The largest e-commerce operator in Africa, has officially started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday April 12 as “JMIA”, with shares beginning trading at $18.95, and closing at $25.46. The company offered 13.5 million shares for purchase and raised $196 million. Jumia’s IPO is now the first major African-focused venture-funded tech company…
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Wolfgat, a small restaurant in South African was named “Restaurant of the Year” in Paris by the World Restaurant Awards, at the big surprise of everyone. Located on an idyllic beach in a tiny cottage in Paternoster (two hours’ drive from Cape Town), Wolfgat is a small restaurant that chef Kobus van der Merwe opened…
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Meet the Morocco based luxury footwear brand ZYNE, founded by Zineb Britel and Laura Pujol, which's mission is to bring the ancestral Moroccan footwear known as the “babouche”, and its traditional craftsmanship, into the 21st Century. The ZYNE story Zineb Britel and Laura Pujol. CREDIT: COURTESY Both born and raised in Morocco, Zineb Britel and Laura…
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Johnson and Johnson’s Africa Innovation Challenge 2.0 is here! As a result, all African innovators are invited to submit their ideas. Entries opened on Thursday November 8. The Africa Innovation Challenge is designed for the continent’s innovators to showcase new ideas. This extraordinary opportunity is in its second edition (first edition launched in November 2016) .…
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Students at the University of Cape Town have developed a bio-brick that mixes sand, bacteria and human urine. It's the world’s first bio-brick grown from human urine. The formation of the bio-brick The bio-brick was developed by UCT master’s student in civil engineering, and was "created through a natural process called microbial carbonate precipitation. When urine is mixed…
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Ethiopia is know to be the birthplace of coffee and the finest producer of specialty coffee in the world, and also it appears, "the source of the finest hand roasting artisans on the planet". Garden of Coffee, Ethiopia's main coffee chain, created by Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, is expanding to China, and intends to open 100…
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The fourth edition of the yearly event Africa Code Week, kicked-off this year in South Africa, on October 5th, on the occasion of the World Teachers Day. The event will continue until October 31st. Since its inception in 2015, Africa Code Week has introduced over 1.8 million African youth to coding skills in multiple African countries while…
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