Apple Music’s Latest Africa Rising Artist Is Nigerian Afro-Pop Singer-Songwriter, Ayra Starr
Apple Music today announces the latest artist in its Africa Rising artist development program as 18-year-old Nigerian singer, Ayra Starr (real name Onyinkansola Aderibigbe). “I am excited to be an Apple Music Africa Rising artist! Thank you to everyone streaming and embracing my music, and thank you Apple Music for the opportunity and support!” the singer […]
Working Remotely Due To Coronavirus? Here Is How To Manage It.
One of the dangers of remote working is how easy it is to sit all day because you no longer work intermittently due to your busy office environment. You should also make sure to stay active throughout your day. Activity and movement are known to boost levels of focus and productivity while enhancing feelings of […]
Most Popular Mobile Apps in Africa
Africa has proven itself to be the hub of mobile phone usage and growth in using mobile apps. With studies by the Pew Research Center showing that while only one in ten individuals on the continent owned a mobile device in 2002, is has rapidly changed. Now more than two-thirds of people in five of […]
A Showcase of Africa Post Pandemic
The pandemic caused the Africa2020 Season, which was scheduled to showcase cultural projects all over France, to be postponed, but the Season did kick off in December 2020, and the plan is that it will unfold as planned until July 2021. N’Goné Fall, the Senegalese General Commissioner of the Africa2020 Season, called the large scale […]
The Good, Bad and Ugly for Africa’s Tourism Sector
From the rise in rhino poaching in Botswana to the waning of noise pollution in Alaska, the lack of tourism has had a profound effect around the world. The question moving forward is which impacts will remain, and which will vanish, in the recovery. With safari tours scuttled and enforcement budgets decimated, poachers have plied […]
New WTO Chief Calls Out Countries Stalling Vaccination Production
The World Trade Organization’s chief on Tuesday called for urgent action on boosting COVID-19 vaccine production in developing countries, saying manufacturing sites could be prepared in six to seven months or less than half the time previously thought. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was until recently chair of the board of global vaccine alliance GAVI. Okonjo-Iweala said pandemic-related […]
Country Mourns Ghanaian Teens
The bodies of 12 children who drowned in the sea at Apam in Ghana’s coastal Central Region have been retrieved, local media reported on Tuesday. Three more children have been found alive, according to news channel Adom TV. Authorities believe a group of at least 20 children, aged between 14 and 17, were swept away […]
Zimbabwe’s Currency Woes have Forced a Shift to being a Cashless Society
With no end of cash shortages in sight in Zimbabwe, the use of mobile money has become the order of the day in the southern African nation. SOURCE: VOA
No Room for African Politicians Living it Up with Ill Gotten Riches
The UK will return £4.2m of Nigerian government funds stolen by a governor from the oil-rich Delta state who served a jail term in London for fraud – in the first such deal between the two countries. The money was stolen by James Ibori and his associates. He was jailed in 2012 for fraud amounting […]
Teething Problems with Crypto Currencies Cause SA to Discontinue
The world’s biggest cryptocurrency scam of last year was a jolt to South Africa’s regulator — and not everyone will wait to see how it shakes out. As major financial hubs like Singapore redraw legislation to lure crypto firms and with the U.K. government facing calls to embrace digital currencies, South Africa’s burgeoning exchanges say […]
