Building African Perspectives: Sustainable Journalism In Africa’s Global Engagements
By Bongiwe Tutu, First published in Wits Centre For Journalism. The African continent is growing more robust within its engagements in the global economy. However, there are still cases of economies that are merely extracted consumers of the globe, and a media that only mimics realities rather than reshaping them. This requires an informed and sustained media […]
Victory Farms Poised For Further Growth After $35m Series B Drive
East Africa’s fastest-growing aquaculture platform, Victory Farms, has successfully completed its $35 million Series B round to fund the expansion of its operations in Kenya, Rwanda, and potential entry into Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania. Victory Farms provides a climate-smart, profitable, and scalable solution to Africa’s nutritional security challenges. The Series B round was led by […]
Mastercard And EthSwitch Partner To Drive Digital Transformation Of The Payments Sector In Ethiopia
EthSwitch, Ethiopia’s national payment switch has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mastercard that will enable financial institutions across Ethiopia to boost the adoption and usage of digital payments. By leveraging Mastercard Send, a payments platform that enables people and organizations to send and receive money instantly, domestically and cross-border, EthSwitch is able to continue to make digital […]
Three Strategic Synergies Powering SA’s Travel Industry In 2023
The global travel industry has undergone a mammoth transformation in recent years. Navigating a challenging and constantly evolving landscape, some successes include the implementation of enhanced health and safety protocols, the swift adoption of digital technology, as well as increased booking flexibility and a renewed focus on domestic tourism. In line with a new study […]
TDB Group And Finnfund Sign MoU To Collaborate On Promoting Sustainable Development Investments
The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank Group (TDB Group) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Finnfund, a Finnish development financier and impact investor, to promote investments that contribute to the UN sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in key projects in TDB member states. The MoU, signed by TDB Group President Emeritus […]
#WorldStoryTellingDay: When The Youth Write And Read, They Can Better Own Their Stories
By Lea-Anne Moses, Executive Director, and Trustee at Fundza Literacy Trust When I was 10, my uncle gifted me a Reader’s Digest subscription, which was renewed annually until well into my 20s. If I’d listened to my friends, who thought it was the definition of uncool, all of those renewals probably wouldn’t have happened. That […]
Africa Poised For Growth In Adventure Tourism Industry, Says Panel Of Experts At WTM Africa
Adventure tourism presents a significant opportunity for the tourism industry in Southern Africa and Africa, as highlighted by a panel discussion at WTM Africa on 03 April in the host City of Cape Town. The discussion brought together industry experts Julia Louw, Head of Leisure Tourism for the DMO unit Wesgro; Hannelie Du Toit, Chief […]
New Evidence Suggests Africa’s Birth Rates are Falling Fast
At conferences and in cabinet meetings across the continent, politicians and policymakers fret about how to educate, employ, house and feed a population that the UN expects to grow at breakneck speed from around 1.2bn people now, to 3.4bn people by 2100. In southern Europe, populists stoke up fears that hundreds of millions of Africans may […]
How Benin got its Large Volumes of Brass has Long been a Mystery, Until Now
Scientists have discovered that some of the Benin bronzes were made with brass mined thousands of miles away in the German Rhineland. The Edo people in the Kingdom of Benin, modern Nigeria, created their extraordinary sculptures with melted down brass manilla bracelets, the grim currency of the transatlantic slave trade between the 16th and 19th […]
Namibia’s Judicial Appointments Hailed for Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Gender equality activists in Namibia have welcomed the first ever appointment of female justices to the country’s supreme court. The chairperson of the Namibia Women Lawyers Association, Ruth Herunga, said although women have gained access to positions of political power, a significant number of African countries still lag in the representation of women at the […]
