SOUTH AFRICA: SOUL MUSIC LEGEND, KARYN WHITE TOUR & LIFE

SOUTH AFRICA: SOUL MUSIC LEGEND, KARYN WHITE TOUR & LIFE

“Karyn White live in South Africa tour” takes place as part of celebrating Women’s Month, which is the August month in South Africa 🇿🇦. By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa, Cape Town, SA Karyn White was highly popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Question is: Could her South Africa tour be the revival of her career […]

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 TRIBUTES TRICKLE IN FOR KENYAN CYCLIST WHO DIED IN US PLANE CRASH

TRIBUTES TRICKLE IN FOR KENYAN CYCLIST WHO DIED IN US PLANE CRASH

Renson Mwakandana Sule Kangangi, a Kenyan cyclist who passed away while participating in a race in the US, has received a deluge of condolences. According to a statement from his team, he was taking part in the Vermont Overland competition on Saturday when he reportedly crashed fatally. Along with Jordan Schleck of Uganda, the 33-year-old […]

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 BUSINESS HIGHLIGHT: AFRIK-SOLUTIONS

BUSINESS HIGHLIGHT: AFRIK-SOLUTIONS

By Grace Ossongo – Yaounde, Cameroon Ms. Ossongo speaks to Douglas Wafo, a software engineer and CEO of AFRIK-SOLUTIONS; a tech company located in Yaounde, Cameroon 🇨🇲 that provides tech solutions and support to other businesses and an international company in its own right.

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 FROM A HOUSE HELP TO GOVERNOR- KENYAN FEMALE GOVERNOR

FROM A HOUSE HELP TO GOVERNOR- KENYAN FEMALE GOVERNOR

Renson Mwakandana One of Kenya’s seven newly elected female governors briefly left high school as a teenager to work as a domestic servant. She claims it happened because her family was struggling. It happened when she was about 14 years old, according to Kawira Mwangaza, who was officially sworn in as the new governor of Meru county.  “I worked […]

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 TANZANIA OFFICIAL FIRED FOR OPPOSING NEW MOBILE MONEY LEVIES

TANZANIA OFFICIAL FIRED FOR OPPOSING NEW MOBILE MONEY LEVIES

Renson Mwakandana Jonas Afumwisye, the regional manager for Dar es Salaam for the Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC), was fired for publicly criticizing the implementation of mobile money transfer fees on social media. While acknowledging receiving the notice of dismissal, Mr. Afumwisye stated he will appeal to the Public Service Commission. “It is true I have […]

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 35 WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS GRADUATE FROM ECOBANK’S ELEVATE LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAMME

35 WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS GRADUATE FROM ECOBANK’S ELEVATE LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAMME

Programme equips women entrepreneurs with leadership skills to empower their businesses and communities. By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa, Cape Town, SA The African business sector has just become a lot richer. Thanks to the first cohort of 35 women entrepreneurs from 9 African countries who recently successfully completed the Ecobank Ellevate Leadership Training Programme. According to Ecobank, […]

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 NIGERIA BECOMES A DIAMOND SPONSOR OF AFRICAN ENERGY WEEK 2022

NIGERIA BECOMES A DIAMOND SPONSOR OF AFRICAN ENERGY WEEK 2022

DRIVING LOCAL CONTENT, STRENGTHENING THE DOMESTIC MARKET AND ENSURING NIGERIAN CITIZENS BENEFIT FROM THE COUNTRY’S ’s OIL AND GAS RESOURCES, THE NOC SERVES AS AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHER NOCs IN AFRICA Thandisizwe Mgudlwa, Cape Town, SA “Having the Nigerian National Oil Company (NNPC) as a diamond sponsor of AEW 2022 is huge. The sponsorship not […]

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