How To Become A Model In South Africa
The South African fashion scene is full of creativity and imagination with Cape Town and Johannesburg at the very center of it all. With their fashion week reaching its 21st birthday recently, they proudly showcase the latest design concepts. Cape Town and Johannesburg are full of possibilities with young, emerging fashion designers and make-up artists hoping to […]
How Can Banks Participate In Fulfilling The Needs Of Africa’s Rising Gig Economy?
By Oluwasanmi Akinmusire (FinTech Expert & Co-Founder of ImaliPay) Informal employment represents 80-90% of the total workforce in most African countries, forming the bulk of the workforce. Gig workers are a growing segment of the informal economy, driven by an increase in innovation and the rise in the use of digital platforms that serve as […]
Sawari Ventures Closes USD 71 Million Fund To Invest In Egyptian Tech-driven Companies
Sawari Ventures announced the closing of the Egypt based fund with total commitments of USD 30 Million from Misr Insurance Group, Ekuity, National Bank of Egypt, Banque Misr, Banque du Caire, and Suez Canal Bank. The fund previously closed USD 41 million of raised investments from European Investment Bank, CDC , Proparco, Dutch Good Growth […]
5 Top Opportunities For Investment In Ethiopia (I)
The times are changing in the Horn of Africa and the larger East Africa region. Ethiopia – once the byword for famine in the region – is now garnering attention from foreign investors. Sitting in the Sheraton Hotel in Addis Adaba, it is hard not to notice the number of private investors from London to Nairobi to Johannesburg passing through and […]
Successful Crop Innovation Is Mitigating Climate Crisis Impact In Africa
By Martin Kropff and Nteranya Sanginga African smallholder farmers have no choice but to adapt to climate change: 2020 was the second hottest year on record, while prolonged droughts and explosive floods are directly threatening the livelihoods of millions. By the 2030s, lack of rainfall and rising temperatures could render 40 percent of Africa’s maize-growing area unsuitable for […]
Exploring Africa’s Deep Blue Sea from Your Couch
South African freediving couple Beth ‘The Mermaid’ Neale and Miles ‘Aquaman’ Cloutier go on an unimaginable underwater journey in the first-ever freediving reality TV series called ’Freediving Diaries’. The show will consist of 10 episodes. Viewers will see Beth and Miles’ experiences of freediving on the coasts of Mozambique and the Maldives. Beth, a four-time […]
Spice Up your African Travels
African hot sauces dance the line between pourable and spoonable, but some we simply couldn’t skip. In northern Africa, heat is embedded in many dishes in the form of thick harissa pasta. In Egypt, the Middle Eastern shatta hot sauce reigns, with red or green chillies and usually a few herbs like garlic and parsley. […]
Cairo Will Now be the New Home for Egypt’s Mummies
Over the weekend, ancient mummies of Egypt’s royal pharaohs emerged from their resting places and paraded through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. This was part of a lavish celebration of Egypt’s history and a project to relocate some of its greatest treasures to a new high tech facility called the […]
How this Safari Lodge Made it Past a Pandemic
Tintswalo Safari Lodge has received wide acclaim for its exciting virtual safaris which have been viewed online over the past year by millions of fans locally, and all over the world. When level 5 hard lockdown first kicked in and its lodges were deserted, Tintswalo acted swiftly and instinctively to find a creative way to […]
Francis Kéré Receives Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture
Born in Burkina Faso, architect Francis Kéré maintains a practice in Berlin, but has become renowned for his work, much in Africa, which focuses on community-based solutions and the use of local, sustainable materials. As further recognition of his rising star, he has been awarded the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. The socially engaged […]
