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A Photo Series from Kampala Celebrates the Robustness and Empowerment of Taboos

Kampala Urban Mystery is dedicated to challenging Ugandan society’s reputation for being strict, rigid, and often inhumane when it comes to sexual expression and identity. The East African nation has more to offer and fashion and photography and making their way center stage. Creative director Winnie Dialo says of the project, “I explored the different […]

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Atang Tshikare

For South African multi-disciplinary artist, Atang Tshikare, creativity knows no bounds. His ever-expanding portfolio of work traverses the worlds of painting, sculpture, film, and music with a work in one realm spurring the creation of an ecosystem across others. In addition to a new exhibition inspired by the birth of his son, the prolific artist […]

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Rethinking – Ecommerce & Township Entrepreneurs

Townships are considered key to unlocking the South African ecommerce retail industry representing at least 40% of the national grocery market where despite the small basket size, the benefits offer a high return and the possibility of incredible growth. With ecommerce spend only accounting for 2% of SA’s total retail transactions compared to the global […]

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Ready For Vacation? Here’s How To Get Your Pets Ready Too

Whether you’re heading down to the coast, taking a bush break or staying at home, here are a few ways you can get your pets prepped for the holiday season The countdown to the festive season has begun, and this year, many more families will be going on holiday compared to last Christmas. That means […]

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Deepening Digitisation And The Future Of Banking In Africa

Crosby Mkhwanazi, Group Head of Transactional Products and Services at Standard Bank Group Digital acceleration is transforming the banking sector globally and Africa is no exception. Technological advancements are increasingly shaping how financial products are distributed, how clients are served, and how underlying financial infrastructures are scaled. Moreover, digitisation has sparked a marked adjustment in […]

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Ratings Agency S&P Global Opted to Stay Mum on SA’s Credit Rating

South Africa has a long way to go to convince ratings agencies of its growth and reform agenda, after all three agencies downgraded it during 2020. S&P was scheduled to release a ratings review of the country on 19 Nov, though it is not obliged to issue a report if ratings factors are deemed to […]

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One Way to Understand the State of Uganda’s Economy is to Ask its Informal Workers

For the harried workers of Uganda’s informal economy, life is already tough enough. This might not be an economy in crisis, but millions of people face a daily struggle just to make ends meet. They testify to an economic model that has not brought industrialisation or created enough jobs.In the first decades of President Yoweri […]

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There Will Be No Escaping Ghana’s New Levy on Electronic Transactions

Ghana’s finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta has announced that the government intends to introduce an electronic transaction levy (e-levy) in the 2022 budget. He said this was to “widen the tax net and rope in the informal sector”. The proposed levy, which will come into effect on 1 February 2022, is a charge of 1.75% of […]

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Winds of Change are Sweeping across African Medical Tourism

The number of Africa’s own regional medical tourism destinations is also seen rising beyond South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia—which currently have the most advanced medical facilities on the continent—according to Research and Market’s Medical tourism 2022: Africa potential. Algeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania are newly-listed markets with the potential […]

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Nigeria and US Talk Economy, Democracy and Policy

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Nigeria as part of his three-nation tour in Africa. During his meetings with President Muhammadu Buhari and other top government officials in Abuja, he will be sending a strong message to China, its long-standing rival in the continent, that Africa’s largest democracy and economy remains its key […]

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Congo Hold-up Exposes how Private Interests Captured and Abused DRC’s Resources

The largest leak of financial documents from Africa shows how a private bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo was used to channel at least $138 million of public funds to former President Joseph Kabila’s family and associates. The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa, a Paris-based anti-corruption group known as Pplaaf, and France’s Mediapart […]

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Ghana Fintech Outlook Conference And Awards Set for November 19th & 20th, 2021

Arkel Consult and Abjel Communications have announced November 19th and 20th, 2021 as the dates for the Ghana Fintech Outlook 2021 Conference and the Ghana Fintech Awards & Dinner Night, respectively, at the Best Western Premier Hotel, Airport, Accra. The conference, dubbed “ “Promoting Collaborations and Accelerated Investments in Ghana’s Fintech Ecosystem,” will bring together […]

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