Promoting Africa
Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam, better known as Akon, has won the award of ‘Innovator Of The Year’ offered by the Black Enterprise group during its TechConNext event last week. TechConNext 2018 The TechConNext event brought together big names from the tech industry, like Intel group’s Corporate Strategic Procurement Director, Cory Hooks and Ebay’s Diversity…
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In furtherance of its mission to empower African entrepreneurs, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced that it will soon be unveiling the world’s largest digital platform for African entrepreneurs, TEFConnect. TEFConnect Considered to be the “Facebook for African Entrepreneurs”, TEFConnect is an open source platform, which will provide tools and content for business development…
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As one of the largest social media outlets in the world, Instagram is becoming the top social media outlet for Africans that love and breath art. Instagram began to take off in 2010, first only exclusively on iPhones and then eventually opening up their platform to Androids. Instagram created the ability for everyday, regular people…
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"In Africa, corruption not only saps our economic strength, it is killing us (Odeh Friday). However, many citizens fight to eradicate this phenomenon, but we rarely hear about them. We recently connected with Odeh Friday, Country Director of Accountability Lab Nigeria, through which we discovered a company which contributes to the good happenings around Africa. What is…
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The German government has returned to Namibia, 25 skulls of hundreds of indigenous men and women killed during the colonial era, more than a 100 years ago. A Namibian government delegation received the skulls at a church service in Berlin last Wednesday, and on Friday, the remains were taken to the Namibian capital Windhoek where a…
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During a visit to Burkina Faso in November ‘17. French president, Emmanuel Macron, declared that he’d make returning artifacts to African countries a top priority. The mentioned artifacts were looted from Africa in colonial times and are now in museums, not only in France but a vast part of Europe. His declaration followed years of…
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According to WTTC global outlook 2017, 380 million jobs are anticipated to be supported by the travel and tourism sector by 2027. Yet, the sector’s contribution to African economies remains unrecognized. This is all about to change because of the inaugural forum. The Travel and Tourism Event Fast approaching is the first ever Africa tourism…
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