The Countdown Has Begun. One Month To Go Until WTM Africa
With just one month to go until Africa Travel Week takes place from 03 to 05 April at the Cape Town International Conference Centre in the host City of Cape Town, the countdown has well and truly begun. The trade show, which includes flagship shows WTM Africa and ILTM Africa, will allow travel industry leaders […]
ForAfrika’s Mozambican Staff Work To Alleviate Devastation Caused By Cyclone Freddy
ForAfrika staff are working alongside communities battered by torrential rain and flooding caused by Cyclone Freddy, which made landfall in Mozambique on 24 February. “Many people in Mozambique face food shortages, a possible cholera outbreak in Inhambane and loss of income due to the heavy rains we have suffered in the past week,” says ForAfrika’s […]
President Bio Breaks Over Three-Decades-Old Jinx With The Construction Of A Brand-New Airport In Sierra Leone
David Smith, Business Analyst, UK During his campaign stop in 2018, the then Candidate of Sierra Leone’s Peoples Party, SLPP, Dr Julius Maada Bio, now president of the country, made some very bold and ambitious promises, some even elicited mockery from the then-ruling APC. The Free and Quality Education for Citizens was an impractical delivery […]
EnergyNet Partners With Kenya Private Sector Alliance For Africa Energy Forum And Youth Energy Summit In Nairobi
The events are scheduled to take place in Nairobi, Kenya from the 20th to the 23rd of June 2023 at the Kenya International Convention Centre (KICC) EnergyNet Ltd (https://www.EnergyNet.co.uk/), an award-winning organizer of energy forums, investment meetings, and collaborative dialogues focused on power generation across Africa and Latin America, has announced a partnership with the […]
Exploring South Africa’s Black Wine Scene
Vineyards and wineries continue to be owned primarily by the minority white population in South Africa, but black vintners have been making huge inroads within the past few years. Although black-owned wine brands still represent a small percentage of the country’s wine output, it is becoming increasingly easy to find and support them, and people […]
The Best East African Songs Out Right Now
Last month was a particularly productive time for East African artists with a tremendous number of new releases. Incredibly diverse, the offerings ranged from romantic ballads to soul-lifting dance tracks, and you can listen to the best of the best here. “My Baby” is the new single from Kenyan artist Bien (of Sauti Sol) and […]
Africa’s Largest Film Festival Focuses on Strong Women
For the latest edition of Burkina Faso’s Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, otherwise known as FESPACO, women are in the spotlight. Whether as directors or film subjects, their voices are being celebrated, and it marks a significant advancement for African film. Of the 170 films — works from Egypt, Angola, Kenya, Morocco and […]
Powerful Line-Up For MTN Bushfire 2023!
MTN Bushfire is very excited to announce more of the amazing artists for the upcoming MTN Bushfire festival, happening from 26th-28th May, 2023. As regular fans of MTN Bushfire know, the line-up is always an exciting mix of top names they know and love, as well as perhaps less well-known discoveries from around the globe that […]
A New Book Tells the Story of Newark’s ‘Activist Collector’ of African Art
A new book, ‘The Activist Collector,’ tells the remarkable story of Lida Clanton Broner, a black NJ housewife and hairstylist, who made an amazing and transformative trek to South Africa in 1938. Motivated by ancestral history and a sense of activism, she independently ventured on a nine-month journey to discover the people, issues and art […]
The Next Era of American Fine Dining is Here, Care of West Africa
Across the US, West African cuisine is having its moment in the sun thanks to the work of innovative chefs, who are creating some of the hottest dining spots in town. While even fast casual options are growing in popularity, restaurants specializing in fine dining are the ones that are currently getting all the buzz. […]
