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Louise Marsland Design Indaba speaker Mark Kamau is a Kenyan on a mission to connect everyone in Africa, and then the rest of the world, to the internet...read |
| | Louise Marsland The Design Indaba stage was a cathartic moment for the first speaker of day one, Zimbabwean-born filmmaker, Sunu Gonera, who told Bizcommunity.com that it was a "coming of age moment" for him to tell his own story to his peers and have it well received...read |
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Louise Marsland Design Indaba showcased the work of Leroy Mawasaru, a Kenyan teenager who is changing the world and showing how Afrofuturism can unfold for the continent...read | 
Louise Marsland How Egyptian fashion designer Amna Elshandaweely uses social activism in her fashion to address issues of culture and identity...read | 
Mike Archer There's plenty of money in Nigeria, but will it be enough to woo back brands, asks a creative director in Lagos...?read |
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 | Econet Media subsidiary and pan-African media company Kwesé, has announced its acquisition of the world's leading internet TV service for emerging markets, iflix, to form a new dynamic TV and mobile offering in sub-Saharan Africa... read |
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 | Gau Narayanan How South Africa can be used as a hub for growing into the rest of Africa, using South Africa as a launch pad for talking to Africans in Africa... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Lebo Mashile on African females as the future of humanity, the importance of having a mentor in the industry and honouring the legacy of Hugh Masekela... read |
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 | Gabriella Mulligan Hubs.ng has launched in Nigeria, aiming to create an online ecosystem offering an extensive range of digital services to boost the use of tech in everyday life... read |
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 | Equatorial Guinea's Spanish-speaking governmental channel will be country's first non-linear channel... read |
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 | How Africa is influencing Hollywood movies showcased on 'CNN Marketplace Africa'... read |
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 | Gary Mortimer Dale Carnegie's line from his bestseller book 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' rings especially true in the retail sector... read |
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 | Danilo Acquisto Danilo Acquisto writes that brands should build a YouTube presence now, to begin producing content that is relevant and consumable and to avoid the shotgun approach of gaining eyeballs alone... read |
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 | Issued By Reed Exhibitions The first Comic Con Africa will be hosted in South Africa on 14-16 September at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit & International Convention Centre... read |
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 | Sue Disler Dr William Mapham, an ophthalmologist hailing from the Eastern Cape, who conceived the Vula app, whilst working at the Vula Emehlo Eye Clinic in rural Swaziland and experiencing first-hand the difficulties faced by rural health workers in need of specialist advice, spoke on Day 2 of Design Indaba and received a standing ovation... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Which African country has the best conditions for launching, or investing in, a tech startup? Disrupt Africa has been talking to the great and the good from various African tech ecosystems to find out what it is that makes them so great. read |
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 | About 224-million people are undernourished in Africa as climate change and conflicts heighten food insecurity across the continent, a top UN food agency official said on Monday, 19 February... read |
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 | Facebook has announced a three-year partnership to support The Nelson Mandela archive, based at the Nelson Mandela Foundation... read |
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 | Ben Leo Rural areas are arguably the most overlooked spaces in Africa, in terms of government services as well as corporate attention. It's a mistake to rule out rural spaces and consumers, especially in Africa. Global commerce is fiercely competitive, with business leaders and investors still waking to the vast potential of Africa's burgeoning consumer market. The continent, now home to more than 1.1 billion people, will account for one-fifth of the world's population by 2025... read |
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 | Six months after opening its first store in Phakalane, discount variety retail chain The Crazy Store has opened its second branch at Game City Shopping Centre in Gaborone. read |
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 | Lerato Serumula For a film industry enthusiast such as myself, I have never once come across a movie so intensely anticipated by folk outside of movie-going culture. I don't even think your cult classics such as the Star Wars franchise have sparked such interest in the general public across the globe. read |
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 | Adam Howatson Digital marketing services have exploded over the past decade. You may be embracing the change, attempting to evade it, or perhaps you're just exhausted by it, but the next tranche of advancements may bring some relief... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar Kicking off on Wednesday, 21 February - Friday, 23 February, the 23rd edition of the Design Indaba will see ten global graduates presenting projects that speak to the water crisis, the power of sound, social entrepreneurship and so much more... read |
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 | Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of the Thomson Reuters Eikon mobile app to give their customers in Africa access and instant connection to financial analysis... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews How will the advertising industry adapt AI at a larger scale? Can we innovate with data analysis and profiling without creeping out customers? I discussed the possibilities and explored the power of digital with three of this year's scheduled female powerhouse speakers for the fourth IAB SA Digital Summit, taking place next week on 1 March 2018 at the Theatre on the Track... read |
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 | Yarik Turianskyi With Bitcoin volatility making daily headlines, even those living in the technological 'Dark Ages' are realising that the future is digital... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Not all African tech startups will feel the need to raise VC funding, but those that do must ensure they are adequately prepared for what is a lengthy process. read |
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 | Sue Disler Academic, rockstar or DJ? This was one of the questions Sue Disler had for artist and educator - creative coder, Zachery Lieberman in her interview with him on Day 1 of Design Indaba 2018... read |
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 | Roshida Khanom The heavily anticipated superhero movie Black Panther hit the screens on 12 February 2018, after being predicted to become the biggest ever Marvel film... read |
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 | SES's strategy to bolster its video growth strategy across Africa and continue to support video and media customers in the region received a boost with the appointment of a new VP... read |
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 | Tomi Davies Africa has developed from a continent once viewed as a lost cause to a land of vibrant opportunity, particularly when it comes to business angel investments... read |
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 | "The hotel's planned facilities are geared to provide for a range of much-needed amenities in the city - additional conferencing venues, high-end food and beverage services, and a spa. Most exciting is the amphitheatre which will attract mega events into the city." read |
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 | Moroccan authorities should drop all charges against Akhbar al-Youm columnist and publisher Taoufik Bouachrine... read |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, US - Google says its digital assistant software would be available in more than 30 languages by the end of the years as it steps up its artificial intelligence efforts against Amazon and others... read |
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 | Guo Bonan has opened several new branches of his "8Peppers" spicy Sichuan-style restaurants across Shanghai since last year, and not one has a dining room... read |
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 | The One Club for Creativity, global peace organisation PartnersGlobal and the United Nations' Together initiative have joined forces to launch the first Young Ones Design Brief... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach While access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy for all will usher in economic growth and job creation on the continent, energy projects in Africa lack sufficient access to financing sources... read |
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 | Yeukai Karengezeka Harare City Council has banned commuter omnibuses from the central business district (CBD) and is ordering them to operate from new ranks... read |
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 | Paul McKane For Africa's agricultural sector to reach its potential and meet the food needs of a growing global population, improvements in four key areas need to be achieved... read |
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 | AsaDuru has been awarded a contract to build 972m2 of stabilised rammed earth (SRE) walls for the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) at Redeemer's University in Nigeria... read |
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 | Almost €8m of European funding has been pledged to restore and protect a UNESCO world heritage site in Chad, said NGO African Parks on Tuesday, 20 February... read |
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 | Enterprises involved in the agricultural sector are critical for the fulfilment of the SDGs - playing a key role in generating much-needed investment, decent employment, developing productivity and supply chains that benefit producers and consumers... read |
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 | Ellis Adjei Adams The world has made tremendous progress in bridging the gap between water supply and demand... read |
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 | They have been pioneering new farming techniques, unknown to them up to now, in order to make the community more self-sufficient... read |
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 | Conservationists believe that part of $150m offered by the World Bank for boosting tourism in the southern circuit can be used to mitigate effects of economic projects planned within the Selous Game Reserve... read |
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 | Nick Hedley The internet of things could breathe new life into SA's agriculture sector. Like their global peers, SA technology companies are trialling different IoT applications... read |
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 | Orlando Safaris, based in Windhoek, has opened its doors to domestic and foreign tourists and offers a full service for arranging and booking safaris throughout Namibia... read |
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 | Sadab Kitatta Kaaya Uganda Wildlife Authority has embarked on a programme to upgrade the Katonga Game Reserve to a national park in its drive to diversify wildlife resources and boost tourism... read |
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 | Gabriella Mulligan Pan-African network of tech hubs AfriLabs has announced its Annual Gathering will take place in October, with the event moving to Tanzania for the first time... read |
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 | The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce & Industry is seeking to bridge the trade deficit between Kenya and Morocco and grow trade between the two countries... read |
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 | As of 16 May 2018, the Rwandan national carrier will fly directly from Kigali to Cape Town International Airport, with a stop-over in Harare, four times a week... read |
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 | Kenya has admitted that it has been losing tourists to Tanzania in recent years. The lack of adequate world-class hotels in Kenya had made Tanzania a better proposition for tourists in East Africa... read |
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 | Demand across the world for Farmer Field Schools are increasing due to their ability to help smallholder farmers cope with complex challenges... read |
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 | FAO has launched a comprehensive guide on the integrated pest management of Fall armyworm (FAW) on maize to help farmers, particularly smallholder farmers, in Africa faced with the relentless spread of the pest... read |
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