The Secret Is Out: African Fashion Is The Trend Of The Year
Africa greatly influences the fashion trends followed all across the world. That’s because it is the second-largest continent in the world and has over 54 countries. The fashion trends that originate from this continent are diverse and so vast that they significantly differ from coast to coast. African culture features everything from dashiki to Kaftans […]
West Africa 2021: Opportunities For Hotel Development
By Christopher Lund, James Wrenn & Thuku Kimani Doing Business in West Africa Africa has a lot of potential when it comes to hotel development, expansion and capital growth. The African Development Bank estimates Africa’s middle-class population at 350 million, a segment of the population that presents potential travellers for the growing travel and tourism […]
Morningstar Announces 2021 South Africa Fund Award Finalists
Independent investment research company Morningstar Research (Pty) Limited, a subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN) has named the finalists of its 2021 South Africa Fund Awards. Morningstar selects the finalists using a quantitative methodology with a qualitative overlay that considers the one-, three-, and five-year performance history of all eligible funds, and adjusts returns for […]
Women In Innovation
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, this 8 March, we would like to invite you to a virtual panel discussion on Women in Innovation: Providing leadership, creating solutions and driving change. Innovation is crucial to identifying solutions to achieve the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). Implementation of the SDGs requires all stakeholders to play their […]
The HAVAÍC Universum Core African Fund achieves its second close
Following a successful 2020 comprising eight new investments and three international exits, African focused venture capital (VC) investor HAVAÍC has announced the launch of its newest fund. With a track record for investing in, supporting, internationalising, and ultimately exiting, early-stage high growth African technology companies, HAVAÍC’s Universum Core African Fund has now achieved its second […]
SAP Young Professional Program Helps Build More Collaborative Digital Workforce In East Africa
Switch to all-virtual format opens access to more candidates across East Africa region Students from Uganda, Tanzania participate for first time Program prepares 27 university graduates to make immediate impact as SAP Associate Consultants The Young Professional Program, SAP’s flagship digital skills build initiative, has welcomed the graduation of 27 SAP Associate Consultants in East […]
New Innovations Help SAP Africa Code Week Inspire Next Generation Of African Coders
SAP Africa Code Week, Africa’s biggest digital skills initiative, is celebrating a successful 2020 program that included a switch to all-virtual teaching, the launch of a smartphone app, a continent-wide coding competition and a host of online Train-the-Trainer sessions aimed at empowering teachers with critical digital teaching skills. The 2020 programme had to contend with […]
African Solutions To African Problems
The inspiring story of an entrepreneur, born in war in Angola, educated in Portugal and the United States, who came home to Africa in 2002 to help build the peace. Ivan Morais is a believer in African solutions to African problems. He has done everything from building a bridge to founding one of Angola’s biggest […]
Saving Kenya’s Almost Extinct Birds
Out of 11 vulture species found in Africa, 7 are on the verge of extinction. In Kenya, one species – bearded vulture – has less than five individuals remaining according to conservationists. Poisoning has been cited as the major cause of the vulture population decline over the past 3 decades stemming from numerous incidences of […]
Sudan Celebrates Economic Milestone
The first wire transfer between Sudan and a U.S.-based bank was completed successfully last week ending more than 20 years of economic isolation. Sudanese Ambassador to the United States Nureldin Satti told VOA he received a test wire transfer from Qatar National Bank in Khartoum to his personal account at Wells Fargo in the United […]
