Latest Africa Rising Artist Is Breakout SA Rapper, Blxckie
Apple Music today announced 21-year-old Durban-born rapper and producer, Blxckie (real name Sihle Sithole) as its latest Africa Rising artist. “This is major! I am so honoured to be recognised as the new Africa Rising Artist,” Blxckie tells Apple Music. “The faces of the global music industry are rapidly changing thanks to platforms and features like […]
Industry Maverick To Talk Honesty At Nedbank IMC 2021
This year’s Nedbank IMC closing speaker is the award-winning CEO of Joburg agency, DNA Brand Architects, Sylvester Chauke. He is a passionate advocate for creativity and author of the book, Stand Against Bland. Sylvester is of the opinion that: “In the boardrooms, we are being politically correct in many ways and as a result, there […]
Mastercard Economics Institute: Rebound In Ground Travel For Some Markets In Middle East & Africa; International Travel Lags Behind
Global gas spending is up 13%* over 2019 peak, with increases also observed in Egypt and Nigeria, indicating rebound in ground travel As people prepare to reemerge, sales have increased at barber and beauty shops, bike stores, and toupee and wigs shops, among other categories After flights were largely grounded and travelers stayed home in 2020, […]
Report: The Impact of COVID-19 On The Ghanaian Jobs Market
Early this year, the Corona Virus pandemic affected economical activities. In Ghana most companies were forced to shut down and others had to downsize. This really affected the major resource of various industries, the workforce. In the midst of the pandemic ignited innovations and the need to embrace the new normal. Currently the new normal has […]
Paramount Group Announces Platinum Sponsorship Of Africa’s Largest Maritime Security Gathering – IMDEC 2021
International Maritime Defence Exhibition And Conference (IMDEC) To Be Held On July 6th-8th In Accra, Ghana Global aerospace and technology company, Paramount Group has announced its Platinum Sponsorship of the upcoming International Maritime Defense Exhibition and Conference (IMDEC 2021 – https://imdecafrica.com/), to be held from July 6th– 8th in Accra, Ghana, in strong support of the hosts, the […]
Nigeria Pulled Off One of the Greatest Upsets in International Basketball History
On Saturday evening, Nigeria, with six NBA players and former NBA head coach Mike Brown at the helm, became the first African nation to beat the US, who were playing the first of the five tune-up games before the Tokyo Olympics. “At the end of the day, it doesn’t mean much in the standings as […]
How Focusing on People Turned Orange Around
When Aminata Kane took on the challenge of turning around Orange’s Sierra Leonean subsidiary, the giant French telco was considering a sale of the money-losing unit to its main competitor MTN. That was back in April 2018. Aminata, a former mobile money marketing manager at Orange’s Sonatel unit in Senegal, had never run a company […]
Tunis Calls for Help in Covid-19 Battle
Tunisia’s government has appealed for help from citizens abroad after the authorities declared the country’s health system had “collapsed”, amid a rapid surge of the Delta variant which has led to increase in hospitalisation. “Donate money, medical and paramedical equipment,” the Tunisian embassy in France said in a post on Facebook. A spokesperson for the […]
Ivorian Women Go Organic to Preserve Yield
Thousands of women from Divo, in rural Côte d’Ivoire, have turned to organic farming and grouped together to gain financial independence. Now they go to the fields with machetes and dabas (a traditional African hoe) to farm their produce, which they say helps preserve their health and traditions. “We’ve thrown out the chemicals. We don’t […]
Rwanda Rattles Southern African Governments by Beating them to the Battlefield
A standby force from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is meant to start deploying in Mozambique’s violent Cabo Delgado province this Thursday, July 15. But as of Friday, 9 July Mozambique had still not given official clearance for the deployment. While Mozambique stalled in signing the necessary “Status of Forces” agreement with SADC, a […]
