A Nedbank IMC 2021 Partnership With Sunshine Cinema Challenges Marketers To Pay It Forward
Africa’s premier marketing conference is pleased to announce a partnership with Sunshine Cinema, Africa’s first solar-powered media distribution channel that ignites imaginations and discussion on the continent. The partnership sends out a challenge to South African and African marketers to ‘pay it forward’. Sunshine Cinema is a non-profit organisation that uses solar cinema kits, termed sunboxes, to screen African movies to communities in outlying areas in Africa. The goal is to enthuse and encourage communities to speak up about the issues that they face. Sunbox Ambassadors, previously unemployed youth […]
Meet Gbemi Elekula – The Nigerian Creative Entrepreneur Who Is Making Affordable Art And Tackling Period Poverty While At It
Gbemi is a multi-disciplinary creative entrepreneur. She is the founder of DreamHome (www.dreamhome.ng), a full-service interior design and styling company, as well as HUMANx—a fashion brand that is committed to tackling period poverty. From early childhood, Gbemi had a strong fascination for colours and a deep love for design of all forms. “I started out […]
Giving Kenyan Kids a Chance to Escape their Reality
A chess initiative has drawn about 800 students from various schools within Mukuru Kwa Njenga, which has a population of about half a million people. Josephat Owila is a national chess instructor and head coach with the Sports Outreach Ministry. “Socially they are good because they can be able to coexist with others in the […]
Saving Senegal’s Beach Reputation
Drownings in Senegal’s capital city Dakar have spiked this year as residents flock to beaches to take a dip in the Atlantic waters during periods of hot weather. In the first six months of 2021, 48 people have drowned in the Dakar region, four more than over the same period last year. Since mid-June, authorities […]
British Primate Released into the African Bush
Thirteen-year-old Joshi has spent his entire life in a British safari park, but he’s now being given a new start – and family – in the jungle of Congo-Brazzaville. He was chosen to make the journey because of his calm and gentle nature. Learning to live in the wild isn’t straightforward so he’s being trained […]
Ethiopia’s Conflict is Coming from All Fronts
Forces from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have mounted attacks in neighboring Afar region, marking an expansion of an eight-month-old conflict into a previously untouched area. Tigrayan fighters crossed into Afar on Saturday and Afar forces and allied militias were still fighting them on Monday. A spokesman for the Tigrayan forces, confirmed they had been fighting […]
Zimbabwe’s Activists Call for Holistic Approach to Confronting Teenage Pregnancies
Between January and February, almost 5,000 teenage pregnancies were recorded in Zimbabwe and nearly 2,000 girls under 18 were married. According to the World Bank, the country’s adolescent fertility rate has been declining over the past few years, but there are concerns that the pandemic will reverse the trend. In an attempt to address the […]
Machine Learning can Change Patient Care in Nigeria for Good
For decades, 97% of the data in these sources was unused, trapped in stacks of paper. In 2030, the Nigerian healthcare system can deliver proactive, predictive healthcare that is widely accessible and affordable. Pattern recognition algorithms that help detect hepatitis B virus in vulnerable Nigerian populations are a step in this direction. Nigeria’s rapidly growing […]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo Scores a Key Heritage Victory
Unesco removed one of its nature reserves from a list of threatened sites, the UN agency said. The World Heritage Committee is currently in its annual session, during which members assess the condition and management of more than 1,100 existing sites, as well as accept nominations from countries for new World Heritage Sites. The diverse […]
Twitter has been Receiving More Legal Demands from African States
Five African governments made legal demands to Twitter to produce account information in the second half of last year, up from four in the previous half, a new report by the social networking service shows. Kenya, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were among 71 countries worldwide that made information requests […]
