Promoting Africa
Senegal, like several African countries, faces a real problem of waste treatment. Old used tires are often burned to extract the iron they contain. To counter this situation, Yaye Souadou Fall, then a business school student at ISM (Dakar) decides with six of her classmates to take up the challenge of recycling the thousands of…
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The cultural contribution from enslaved Africans is undermined by Africans and non-Africans alike. African culture in its various form, is only prevalent in today’s society but have a widespread, deep-rooted impact throughout the Occident. During the slave trade era, Africans slaves were prohibited from religious practices. They had to call upon their creativity to camouflage…
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Mawunu Feliho, also known as Egloye, a young Beninese of 23 years, decided to make the world discover Benin, from the eye of a drone. His goal is to show a better face of his country. Negative stereotypes about Africa, and more precisely about Benin (voodoo ...), are heard all over the globe. In order…
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In a partnership with UNICEF, Beyoncé's BeyGOOD Foundation has announced new effort to bring safe, clean water to children in Burundi. The first phase of BEYGOOD4BURUNDI (portion of the BeyGood Fondation that focuses on Burundi), will be on four rural regions of the landlocked East African nation that has been racked by civil unrest and…
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Who are the African billionaires of 2017 ? They are 25, up from 24 last year. Mohammed Dewji of Tanzania is still the youngest billionaire in Africa with a fortune Forbes estimates at $1.09 billion. Angolan investor Isabel dos Santos and oil tycoon Folorunsho Alakija of Nigeria still remain the only two female billionaires on…
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Ugandan young innovator and co-founder of Innovex, Alvin Leonard Kabwama has landed a training deal with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) research centre in Silicon Valley, USA, where he will be joining researchers at Singularity University for a period of 8 weeks. Alvin Kabwama is the cofounder of Innovex, a company which describes itself as being…
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"The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) recently announced the top 10 nominees who will be contending for the 2017 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA), to be awarded in Accra, Ghana on 18th July 2017. Innovators from nine African countries including Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe have been…
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