Restore Land To Tackle Multiple Crises
By Ibrahim Thiaw The land is our lifeline on this planet. Yet ‘business as usual’ in how we manage land resources puts our own future on planet Earth in jeopardy, with half of humanity already facing the impacts of land degradation. As we mark the 50th World Environment Day, let us accelerate efforts to meet global […]
Experts On Africa Set To Bring More African Voices Into Global Debates
Experts on Africa launches its online platform, which seeks to provide newsmakers, event organisers, and policymakers worldwide with easy access to African expertise and connect African expertise with new opportunities from media training to speaking opportunities. The platform invites Experts on Africa with a minimum of 5 years of experience from various sectors, including climate […]
How Gamification Can Level Up Your Corporate E-learning
By Michael Gullan, CEO of G&G Advocacy We all know how social media gamifies communication by offering immediate, vivid, and quantified evaluations of our conversational success. These game-like features are responsible for much of social media’s psychological wallop. Social media is addictive, in part, because it feels so good to watch those likes go up, […]
Technology Can Accelerate Financial Inclusion For Persons With Disabilities, Finds Mastercard Study
Persons with disabilities consider 28% of banks in developed countries, and between 8% and 64% of banks in some emerging economies, to be inaccessible Financial exclusion of persons with disabilities leads to lower educational attainment and employment rates Financial inclusion for persons with disabilities involves reducing the gap in smartphone ownership, mobile internet usage, and […]
Marketing Relevance? Make The World A Better Place
When embarking on a new business, fresh campaign or product launch, do we as marketers ask whether our efforts are making the world a better place? For Sadika Fakir, Integrated Media & Digital Director at Tiger Brands – and one of the speakers at this year’s virtual Nedbank IMC (Integrated Marketing Conference) 2022 – this […]
Man Rides from London to Lagos to End Polio
Nigerian Kunle Adeyanju has finished the treacherous journey from London to Lagos on a motorbike in his campaign to raise awareness and raise funds to end polio in Africa. He arrived in Lagos on Sunday after covering over 12,000km across 14 countries in 40 days. He told BBC News Pidgin that he was using the […]
The Medic Who Decided to Change Somalia’s Frontline Services
On the way to and from his dental clinic every day, Dr. Abdulkadir Abdirahman Adan was appalled by an all-too-common sight: severely injured and dead Somalis being transported to hospitals in wooden hand carts or wheelbarrows. This was in 2006 in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, when government troops, bolstered by Ethiopian forces, were engaged in a […]
First African Startup to Go Public Via SPAC is Now Downsizing
In the first week of April this year, the buzz around Swvl was about its entry into Africa’s group of billion-dollar companies. It achieved this by going public on Nasdaq via a Special Purpose Acquisition Vehicle (SPAC) with Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital, a women-led blank-check company, as its sponsor. Two months later, the bus-hailing company […]
The Nigerian Man Who Took Shell to the Highest International Court
When Nigerian environmental lawyer Chima Williams launched a lawsuit against oil giant Shell plc, he did not envisage a 13-year battle that would lead to a landmark ruling and land him a prestigious environmental award. Williams, who is the executive director of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, successfully convinced the Court of […]
Starlink May be Too Expensive for Its ‘Ideal’ Rural Consumers in Africa
Sometime between July and September this year, Starlink expects to go live in two African countries: Nigeria, and Mozambique. The SpaceX-owned service, which provides internet connectivity using thousands of satellites in space, announced on May 27 that it has received regulatory approvals from both countries. Nigeria gave Starlink two licenses that took effect on May […]
