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Yalla Yalla to offer Arabic film and TV content in MENA

Yalla Yalla is a brand-new Dubai-based film and television company which will target the Arabic entertainment sector with new content in the MENA region...

MTN Nigeria lists on the Nigerian Stock Exchange

MTN Nigeria has announced that it has received approval to list on the Premium Board of The Nigerian Stock Exchange...

Innovative messaging app tailor-made for Malians

Lenali integrates local languages such as Bambara, Soninke, Songhai, Mooré and Wolof, as well as French, making the app accessible to people without formal education...

Reputation management in Africa study

On an individual and organisational level, ethics and reputation are of the utmost importance and form part of storytelling and shaping a realistic narrative...

Technology is a liberating force for African women

Innovative projects tackle entrenched gender inequality in Africa...

Vodafone Ghana to offer new messaging option for mobile money

Vodafone Ghana has launched a new feature on Vodafone Cash known as Reference to satisfy its customers...

'East Africa's Got Talent' show to be transmitted exclusively on Citizen TV

The East African version of 'Got Talent' where talented East Africans will have an opportunity to showcase their skills will be aired exclusively on Citizen TV...

Brand Africa partnership to launch Africa's Best Brands

African Media Agency partners with Brand Africa to launch the 7th Annual Brand Africa 100: Africa's Best Brands...

#AfricaMonth: Africa's revival - foretelling or fairy tale?

Welcome to the future, where a continent once cast in darkness has come into the light...

Safaricom introduces affordable 4G-enabled smartphones in Kenya

Safaricom has introduced a smartphone campaign to launch the cheapest 4G-enabled smartphones in Kenya...

Human Rights Council should address Tanzania crackdown

The Committee to Protect Journalists and 37 other non-governmental organisations this week sent a letter to member and observer states of the United Nations Human Rights Council...

RETAIL

Andrew Jennings on surviving the era of digital retail

Andrew Jennings, the former group MD of Woolworths, recently shared valuable survival lessons for retail brands under siege in the digital age...

2 days ago

MARKETING & MEDIA

Entries open for Global Young Guns 17

The One Club for Creativity is calling for entries for Young Guns 17, celebrating international creative professionals age 30 or younger...

2 days ago

MARKETING & MEDIA

MTN Nigeria lists on the Nigerian Stock Exchange

MTN Nigeria has announced that it has received approval to list on the Premium Board of The Nigerian Stock Exchange...

2 days ago

CSI & SUSTAINABILITY

More confusion over the fate of Botswana's elephants

President Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana categorically denies that his government would ever cull elephants, contradicting the Parliamentary Report proposing culling...

By Dr Louise de Waal 2 days ago

MARKETING & MEDIA

Innovative messaging app tailor-made for Malians

Lenali integrates local languages such as Bambara, Soninke, Songhai, Mooré and Wolof, as well as French, making the app accessible to people without formal education...

2 days ago

CSI & SUSTAINABILITY

Trophy hunting in Africa: the case for viable, sustainable alternatives

For decades, the public has been fed the myth that trophy hunting is absolutely necessary for sustainable conservation in Africa...

By Muchazondida Mkono 2 days ago

MARKETING & MEDIA

Reputation management in Africa study

On an individual and organisational level, ethics and reputation are of the utmost importance and form part of storytelling and shaping a realistic narrative...

3 days ago

MARKETING & MEDIA

The dilemma of leadership in the advertising and media industry

How are leaders in our industry chosen? Often, the position goes to someone who is 'likeable' and a natural 'people's person'. Oh, and often very good at their job. But is that the real qualities that we need in a leader? I don't think so...

By Chris Botha 3 days ago

MARKETING & MEDIA

Technology is a liberating force for African women

Innovative projects tackle entrenched gender inequality in Africa...

By Charles Onyango-Obbo 3 days ago

HEALTHCARE

Ebola survivors can lose their eyesight. What we're doing to prevent it

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the largest outbreak in the country since 1976 when the Ebola virus was first identified in what was then known as Zaire...

By Steven Yeh, Jean-Claude Mwanza & Jessica Shantha 3 days ago

MARKETING & MEDIA

Report reveals key global and local developments in sports for rights holders and brands

Nielsen Sports recently released a Commercial Trends Report that outlines the key global and local developments in sports for rights holders and brands...

3 days ago

MARKETING & MEDIA

Vodafone Ghana to offer new messaging option for mobile money

Vodafone Ghana has launched a new feature on Vodafone Cash known as Reference to satisfy its customers...

3 days ago

RETAIL

Why the meat industry could win big from the switch to veggie lifestyles

One of the largest meat processors in the UK, supplying supermarkets across the country with beef, pork, and lamb, has launched a plant-based meat alternative. ABP is the first UK meat producer to do so...

By Malte Rödl 3 days ago

MARKETING & MEDIA

#AfricaMonth: Anyone from anywhere can be a superhero

The likes of Black Panther have turned the concept of Wakanda from a dream to reality for superhero fans across the continent, but that's only the starting point of African creativity. Malenga Mulendema has taken this further in Mama K's Team 4, Netflix' first original African animated series...

By Leigh Andrews 3 days ago

MARKETING & MEDIA

'East Africa's Got Talent' show to be transmitted exclusively on Citizen TV

The East African version of 'Got Talent' where talented East Africans will have an opportunity to showcase their skills will be aired exclusively on Citizen TV...

3 days ago

LIFESTYLE

What's on at the 2019 Standard Bank Luju Food & Lifestyle Fest

The second edition of the Standard Bank Luju Food & Lifestyle Festival will be held at the House on Fire Sculpture Garden in Swaziland from 2 to 3 August 2019...

3 days ago

MARKETING & MEDIA

Maps to start collecting consumer insights from July 2019

The Marketing Association of South Africa (Masa) and the Marketing Research Foundation (MRF) have announced that Maps, the products and brands replacement survey for Amps, will officially start collecting consumer insights from July 2019...

15 May 2019

MARKETING & MEDIA

New Wan-Ifra report tackling disinformation around the world

Wan-Ifra has released a new report that looks at the global map of remedies adopted by governments whose objective is to combat the disinformation crisis, though with extremely diverse intent and effects...

15 May 2019

MARKETING & MEDIA

Brand Africa partnership to launch Africa's Best Brands

African Media Agency partners with Brand Africa to launch the 7th Annual Brand Africa 100: Africa's Best Brands...

15 May 2019

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