Promoting Africa
32-year-old Malawian, Stanford Muyila, has been awarded the Young Scientist Award in Japan during the Japan-China-Korea Grassland Conference for successfully creating a low-cost method for increasing the nutritional value of agricultural waste for animal feed. Research on “The Effect of Pre-treatment Method (Autoclaving and Pasteurization) on the Nutritional Value of Bagasse Incubated with White-Rot Fungi.” Stanford…
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The African continent has been far behind the rest of the world when it comes to professional media, but our next Millennial highlight has her sights on a career like the likes of Oprah, Debra Lee of BET and Tyler Perry. "Sista" Sally Njie has spent the better part of 15 years curating the Gambian…
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When it comes to the fashion world, it seems sometimes that culturally we are force fed the same images of our women, under the standards of the Western world and it's pseudo sexual exploitation of the female form. Not the case with Trinidadian, hijabi model and fashion designer Naballah Chi. As the first installment of…
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On July 15, Barack Obama made his first post-presidency visit to Kenya, and launched a center for Knowledge, Learning & Excellence founded by his half sister in the rural birthplace of his father Kolego. President Obama traveled to Kenya on Sunday to promote the opening of a sports and training center that his half sister, Auma…
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The Ivorian Tidjane Thiam, Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse, was awarded the title of "Banker of the Year" on Wednesday, July 11 in London, at the "Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2018" ceremony. This award obtained by Tidjane rewards his efforts in the restructuring of Credit Suisse. He was rewarded for redesigning the bank's strategy,…
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“I stand for taking Africa to the world, and taking the world to Africa through dance. This is important to me because I’m so proud to be African...and I think the whole world needs to know what we’re about -that we’re not just about poverty, disease and sadness that you see in the media. But…
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Kenyan writer Makena Onjerika has won the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing with her story "Fanta Blackcurrant". Five writers short stories had been shortlisted for the big prize this year: Nonyelum Ekwempu (Nigeria), Olufunke Ogundimu (Nigeria) and Wole Talabi (Nigeria) Stacy Hardy (South Africa) and Makena Onjerika (Kenya). Fanta Blackcurrant First published in Wasafiri…
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