Valentine’s Day: It’s About Making Hearts Happy
As Valentine’s Day approaches, the delight is palpable. What used to be the feast day of St Valentine, patron lovers and beekeepers evolved to being a day on which you send a card or gift to someone you love, often anonymously. Now Valentine’s Day has become a day on which we show love, for that […]
Fourth Edition Of South Africa’s Standards For Palliative Healthcare Services Ensures Continued Credibility And Quality Of Local Palliative Healthcare Sector
In a significant step forward for South Africa’s palliative healthcare sector, late last year saw the fourth edition of the Standards for Palliative Healthcare Services being recognised internationally and accredited for four years by the global authority on standards development and assessment. This is the International Society for Quality in Health Care’s External Evaluation Association […]
The Ugly Truth About Love
It’s February, the month of love. What are you expecting from your partner? A box of chocolates or a black eye? For many women around the world this is the truth about their “loving” relationships. And it’s ugly. In a violent world, South Africa has made femicide and rape part of its culture. On average, […]
Apple Music’s Africa Now Radio With Cuppy This Sunday With Black Coffee
This Week’s Episode Features a Conversation With Black Coffee, the 5 Hottest Tracks of the Week, and Aïcha Fall‘s Favorite African Proverb! Cover Star InterviewSouth African DJ and producer Black Coffee is this week’s cover star, and joins Cuppy via FaceTime on Apple Music 1 to talk about his latest track, “I’m Falling (ft. RY X).” Fresh off […]
African Corporate Executives Turn To Tech Entrepreneurship
By Eric Osiakwan In the last century, the fashionable and accepted route to success for young Africans was to complete their education and join the corporate world. A few university students aspired to become entrepreneurs; most educational institutions did not offer entrepreneurial programs. With few exceptions, African families used to guide their children to join […]
First Patient-Led Cancer Registry Launched With Support From Altron Karabina
The partnership leverages Microsoft technology to support and empower individuals living with cancer. When Belinda Wagner, a facilitator, marketing consultant and life coach, was diagnosed with a rare cancer in 2016 called Angiosarcoma, she looked for information about cancer and support groups to help her navigate the immense challenges that lay ahead. “When I searched for information […]
Make Your Money Work Harder And Smarter By Using Your Home Loan To Save
By Andrea Tucker, Director at MortgageMe We get it. The thought of paying off a house every month for the next 20 to 30 years isn’t exactly thrilling. But if managed carefully, you can use your bond to your advantage and build a nest egg of savings for life’s little and not-so-little emergencies. The why […]
Tee Off with the Only Disabled Professional Golfer in West Africa
When Cameroonian golf champion Issa Nlareb Amang lost his legs and most of his fingers to meningitis in 2018, many thought his life in the sport was over. But, thanks to donors, he was able to get prosthetics that allowed him to return to the game. SOURCE: VOA
The African Art of Reciting the Koran
Social media has enabled a revival in unique African styles of Koranic recitation, which were once dominated by Middle Eastern traditions and as Isma’il Kushkush reports a voice from Sudan has come to exemplify what the continent has to offer. When Nourin Mohamed Siddig recited the Koran, people around the world described his tone as […]
A Financial Super App for Consumers in French-speaking Africa
Ivorian-based Djamo has been accepted into the Silicon Valley-based accelerator Y Combinator, banking US$125,000 funding and further support. Founded by Hassan Bourgi and Regis Bamba last year, Djamo is a financial super app that aims to democratise access to quality and affordable banking to millions of Africans living across the Francophone Africa region. Disrupt Africa […]
