Promoting Africa
The novel "Americanah" by the famous Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie might soon be adapted to cinema. Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o has acquired adaptation rights. Lupita Nyong'O has acquired the rights to adapt Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's award-winning novel Americanah's, which could be produced by Brad Pitt. The novelist also announced that Lupita Nyong'o should probably take the role…
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Kelechi Iheanacho became the first player to score a goal decided by video assistant referee in the FA cup third round replay. Iheanacho opened the scoring, with a beautiful strike from Islam Slimani’s pass. The main talking point of the game came when the Leicester city striker initially had a goal disallowed for offside from…
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Reach Robotics, a reality gaming company that creates robots for both fun and STEM education, recently won a deal with Apple to sell the MekaMon. Sila Adekunle an innovator in the robotics field Adekunle was born in Nigeria, and then moved to the UK at the age of 11. He studied robotics at the University of…
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How it started Constant power cuts, traffic jams, humidity and heat, nonetheless the Nollywood film industry is booming. Based in Lagos, it is a gross mass of tens of thousands of movies that are made in Nigeria. Remarkably produced using (at the beginning) a single video camera, sometimes in harsh weather conditions, which inspired the…
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Flutterwave is a Nigerian owned and San Francisco based company, that provides a payment platform that makes it easier for banks and businesses to process payments in local currencies across the African continent. "Roughly two-thirds of the adults on the African continent remain unbanked and card penetration is low. Yet, a Mckinsey Gallup data showed 54 percent of…
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