Facebook Hosts Its First ‘Facebook ID8 Nairobi’ Conference Aimed At Celebrating And Growing The Tech Ecosystem Across Africa
“Facebook iD8 Nairobi” created a space for developers and startups to showcase and celebrate talent from across the continent, while sharing their developer journey Today, Facebook brought together over 400 developers, startups and businesses from across Sub-Saharan Africa in a first of its kind conference dubbed “Facebook iD8 Nairobi”. As part of its effort to create […]
Top Award-Winning SA Comedian, Sifiso Nene, To Showcase His Latest Comedy Offering “I Have No Choice” In Secunda This December
He is one of SA’s most celebrated comedians, Sifiso Nene, and this festive season Nene is set to dazzle audiences in Secunda with the latest funny showcase, I HAVE NO CHOICE, which is guaranteed to deliver the comedy punches. The Kwazulu-Natal-born stand-up comedian, actor and MC, is set to charm Mpumalanga comedy audiences at Graceland Casino […]
Nigeria Successfully Hosts The 1st African Congress On Sickle Cell Disease
Last October, key stakeholders including medical & sickle cell experts, governmental and non-governmental organizations from across Africa and the World came together as a collective on one international stage to discuss the burden of sickle cell disease, its impact on African communities and proffer evidence-based solutions and recommendations to its effect. Delegates from over 25 […]
Top Social Tech Startups To Battle It Out For R5 Million Seed Funding
Now in its second year, the Social Tech Startup Challenge (STSC) is a 12-month programme, created by the Diageo Empowerment Trust South Africa – DETSA, empowering tech-enabled start-ups through access to industry experts, design professionals, relevant business training and funding to help scale up their innovations from idea to viable business. Focusing specifically on innovations […]
Paving The Way To Business Agility In Africa
Companies that can quickly change speed and direction or modify tactics to outwit, outsmart and outplay their opponents are the companies that gain the competitive edge says Alain Du Toit, Cloud Services Sales Principal for Hitachi Vantara This year’s Rugby World Cup saw the Springboks scrum, tackle and ruck their way towards lifting the coveted […]
DHL Global Forwarding Recognized As Certified Top Employer 2020 In Africa
DHL Global Forwarding garners praise for its implementation of “people first” HR best practices in Cameroon, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa Certification affirms the market leader’s strategy to deliver expert logistics services by investing in the best team of freight forwarding experts DHL Global Forwarding, the leading provider of air, ocean and road freight services, […]
The 4th Annual Meeting Of The African Economic Zones Organized By The Africa Free Zones Organisation (AFZO) At The African Union Headquarter In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
4th Annual Meeting of African Economic Zones on the theme of industrialization Africa Free Zones Organisation (AFZO) organized on November 19th, 2019, at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, its 4th Annual Meeting, under the theme “Economic Zones – Accelerator for Industrialization in Africa”, with the support of the Department of Trade and […]
3 Books by African Authors to Have on Your Reading List
The Curious Case of Dasso by Fouad LarouiPublisher: Paperback (June 28, 2016) The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers humorously explores the realism of life in a world where everything is foreign, in a reflecting of unique short stories told by a group of men sitting at a café in Morocco. The author uses comical absurdity to make […]
Uganda Launches First Phone Manufacturing Plant
President Yoweri Museveni on Friday launched Uganda’s first mobile phone manufacturing and assembling plant. The plant by Chinese firm, Engo, in Namanve in the capital Kampala,will produce SIMI-branded handsets. At full capacity, the factory will run three production lines; each line with daily production of 2,000 feature phones, 1,500 smart phones, 800 laptops, 2,000 chargers, […]
