Promoting Africa
Most tourist attraction drives and packages aimed at attracting tourists to different destinations in Africa, are built around wildlife, geography, and local cultures of the people therein. Well, it is good to come to Africa, and see the wildlife, geography, and other beautiful and exciting things that this beautiful continent has to offer. Africa is…
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In 2018, one of the biggest motion pictures was Black Panther, which received acclaim from critics and fans alike. Set in a hypothetical or fictitious country, kingdom, presumably in the African continent, it presented the African continent in a positive way to the entire world. It showed Africa’s potential. The position that it could achieve…
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Lupita Nyong’o, the Kenya Black Panther movie star shared details on a new project she had been working on, and was so proud about, a children's book called Sulwe. Sulwe, which means "Star" in the Kenyan Luo language, is a new children’s book aiming at encouraging kids to love themselves. Sulwe tells the story of…
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On Sunday March 24, Kenyan Science teacher Peter Tabichi won the 2019 Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize, as a recognition for his contribution to his school in Nakuru Kenya. Beating 10,000 other nominees from 179 countries, Peter Tabichi was awarded a $1 million prize for the world's best teacher. He is known for giving away…
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Pigcasso, a rescued pig in South Africa, has become an art sensation, painting pieces displayed around the world which sell for thousands of dollars. The sow was rescued from an abattoir as a piglet and brought to an animal sanctuary in Franschhoek, in South Africa’s Western Cape region in 2016, where her new owner noticed…
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The 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction will be awarded this summer on June 5th 2019, and three writers of Nigerian descent are already on the long list of authors. Three writers of Nigerian descent are names on the longlist of the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Oyinkan Braithwaite, Akwaeke Emezi and Diana Evans were announced on…
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On 27th February 2019, IKEA will unveil its African ÖVERALLT collection, at the Design Indaba Festival in Cape Town, the result of its collaboration with a group of African artists. The ÖVERALLT journey started two years ago, when Swedish-founded multinational retailer IKEA, teamed up with a group of designers, architects, artists and creatives from 7 African countries (South Africa, Kenya, Senegal, Egypt, Angola, Ivory Coast…
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