Gabriel Soundz Releases “Just My Type” Featuring Fole99
Gabriel Soundz is a record producer and a DJ from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, with years of experience in music production. He decides to drop the first single “Just My Type” from his upcoming EP named “Afro House”. The song is an Afro House genre fused with EDM. It was produced, mixed and mastered […]
The Rockefeller Foundation Commits Nearly USD 35 Million To Covid-19 Response Efforts In Africa
The Rockefeller Foundation announces an initial USD 34.95 million to ensure more equitable access to Covid-19 testing and vaccines; leverage innovation, data, machine-learning; combat the escalating food crisis; and scale up access to renewable energy in Africa. Collaborating with 24 organizations, businesses, and government agencies, this pan-African effort will also focus on 10 countries: Burkina […]
How This South African Business Is Using The Cloud To Ensure Business Success During A Pandemic
At a time when businesses have found themselves facing rapidly evolving circumstances almost every month, one South African company has turned to the cloud to ensure business continuity, drive innovation and keep its team strength of more than 350 intact. Digital first approach ooba, an online home loan quote comparison and application service, has been […]
AIG-Imoukhede Institute Commences The AIG Public Leaders Programme In Partnership With The University Of Oxford’s Blavatnik School Of Government
The Africa Initiative for Governance and the Aig-Imoukhuede Institute are pleased to announce the commencement of its unique AIG Public Leaders Programme in partnership with the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. The AIG Public Leaders Programme affords 50 high potential men and women working in the Nigerian public service a once in a […]
Creating A Cashless Africa
Across Africa, there has historically been a heavy reliance on cash, with around 95 percent of retail transactions taking place in cash. Global and local organizations are investing in innovative digital payment systems and new disruptive payments tools to displace cash, while delivering new levels of inclusion to the benefit of consumers, businesses and governments. […]
Covid-19 Pandemic Causes A Global Democracy Slump
The latest annual Democracy Index report from The Economist Intelligence Unit finds that the coronavirus pandemic led to a huge rollback of democratic freedoms, causing the global average score in the Index to fall to an all-time low. Government-imposed lockdowns and other disease-control measures led to the withdrawal of civil liberties on a massive scale, […]
Cancer – The Forgotten Disease
Thursday 4th February is World Cancer Day. Amidst the current challenging circumstances, hospices around South Africa continue to care for thousands of cancer patients. During the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, cancer has taken somewhat of a back seat to the virus which continues to dominate the local and global media landscape, but cancer still remains one of the […]
Inclusive Design Is Transforming The Customer Journey As Digital Accelerates And Expectations Skyrocket
Embracing inclusive design is a pathway to innovation that organisations ignore at their peril says Reynhardt Uys, Chief Experience Officer, Immersion Group. “Before now, it was common for the industry to see accessibility and inclusion as a box to tick somewhere within the design or process, but as Covid-19 has accelerated the digital world, inclusive design […]
Tshimologong Precinct Calls For Promising Graduate Software Testers As It Launches New Learnership Programme
Programme seeks graduates with a basic knowledge of software development and boundless curiosity for exploring new apps Wits University’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct, is calling for inquisitive graduates who enjoy exploring apps, understand basic software development and figuring out how it all works, to be part of its newly launched Software Tester Learnership Programme with the […]
A Collection of African Masterpieces
A Congolese painter whose art reflects how globalization and consumerism have transformed African society. A Nigerian-American filmmaker whose work focuses on cultures and experiences of Africans and the diaspora. A visual activist from Texas who forces her viewers to confront issues that are deemed difficult to tackle. These are among the 16 artists selected for […]
