HP And T4 Education Announce Nigeria’s Simi Nwogugu As The Africa Education Medal 2023 Winner
Founded by HP in collaboration with T4 Education and Microsoft, the Africa Education Medal is Africa’s most prestigious accolade for innovators in the education sector Today, HP in collaboration with Microsoft and T4 Education, announced the winner of the Africa Education Medal 2023, the continent’s most prestigious education sector accolade. Simi Nwogugu is the CEO […]
We Must Not Lose Momentum Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
By THOKO ELPHICK-POOLEY It is a year since global leaders gathered in Rwanda, on the eve of the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), to commit to ending malaria and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) at the Kigali Summit on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases and to launch the Kigali Declaration on NTDs. Hosted by […]
Trade Catalyst Africa Appoints Inaugural CEO To Lead Mobilisation Of Finance For Trade Infrastructure Development And Trade Finance Access
Trade Catalyst Africa (TCA), a wholly owned commercial subsidiary of leading African aid-for-trade organisation, TradeMark Africa (TMA), has appointed Mr. Duncan Onyango as its inaugural Chief Executive Officer. Duncan, an Oxford-educated investment executive with over two decades of management experience, assumed his new role on 3 July 2023. He joins TCA from Pharo Ventures East […]
Questions Arise About Youth Commitment To Democracy After Nigerian Elections
By Abdullahi Jimoh As Nigeria’s newly-elected president Bola Tinabu seems to be making his mark by undoing many of his predecessor’s policies – another battle is being waged in the courts between him and one of his rivals Peter Gregory Obi. Obi has alleged the election was rigged in favor of Tinabu and is in court […]
Mozambican School Named Africa Winner in First Phase of Prestigious Global Science Competition
Hundreds of students from around the world took part in the Cambridge Upper Secondary Science Competition to find sustainable solutions to real-life problems. The team from Willow International School in the capital, Maputo, found a way of removing methylene blue dye from water. Methylene blue is a synthetic dye which when released from factories into […]
African Tourist Markets are Focused on the Vast Chinese Markets
Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa are leading a charge by African countries to reinvigorate their post-pandemic tourism markets by targeting the Chinese travel market. The three countries, along with Egypt, were among the first popular destinations for Chinese visitors after the Asian giant relaxed two-year-old pandemic rules to allow its citizens to travel for tourism […]
Monitoring the Deteriorating Human Rights Situation in Egypt
This week marks a decade since the coup that installed Egypt’s current government. On July 3, 2013, Egypt’s military removed the country’s first democratically-elected president from power and set up an interim government. A decade later, el-Sissi is still in power. And in many aspects, the situation for ordinary Egyptians is worse than ever. The […]
A Step Towards Realizing the Full Potential of Electric Mobility in Nigeria
In a groundbreaking move towards sustainability and eco-friendly transportation, Possible EVS, Nigeria’s pioneering innovation and sustainable mobility company, announces the launch of the country’s first-ever electric vehicle taxi service, EV Taxi. With an initial fleet of 30 units, the company has plans to expand to at least 20,000 electric taxis across major Nigerian cities by […]
South Africa’s Football Female Team Settle Pay Dispute
A foundation set up by African soccer president and billionaire businessman Patrice Motsepe stepped in Wednesday to resolve a pay dispute between South Africa’s Women’s World Cup players and their national association, ensuring they will get on a plane and head to the tournament in Australia and New Zealand. The dispute caused the entire squad […]
Africa’s Linguistic Diversity goes Largely Unnoticed in Research on Multilingualism
The problem is that much of the published research about multilingualism is not conducted in the world’s most multilingual societies. For example, the African continent is home to some of the most multilingual countries in the world. Cameroon has a population of around 27 million people; over 250 different languages are spoken as first languages, […]
