Promoting Africa
Akon will not stop impressing us! The star rapper and renewable-energy entrepreneur, is considering an initial public offering of his Chinese-funded solar business in Africa. The Akon Lighting Africa initiative which has been moving at a really rapid pace, has been looking at ways to fuel an intercontinental expansion. In just three years, the initiative has completed 203,200 small-scale…
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More and more African movies are now being streamed on Netflix, thanks to booming Nigerian film industry Nollywood, and various movie directors across the globe. We made a list of 4 interesting movies, either produced by africans, or starring main characters from Africa, that you can watch on Netflix during your spare time: 1. Queen…
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Kenya has the world’s 14th-fastest mobile internet speed, according to a report from the content delivery network Akamai, which collects data from more 130 countries. Kenya’s average data connection speed in the first quarter of 2017 was 13.7 megabits per second (almost twice as fast as the global average). At that speed, Kenya beats the…
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Launched on January 1, 2017 in Abidjan by the entrepreneur Barthélemy Kouamé, Timmon is a mobile application enabling individuals to exchange small sums of money with traders. Its objective is to fill the lack of small currency in the Ivorian economic capital. How Timmon application works Once the application is downloaded to a smartphone through…
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According to the African Development Bank’s Africa Visa Openness Report (which measures and ranks countries by how easy it is for visitors from other African states to gain entry), there have been some improvements in terms of visa openness. In 2016, over a third of countries introduced more liberal visa policies. Seychelles remains in the top position,…
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Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa has introduced a first for Africa, a smart parking system to solve the lack of parking space for the hundreds of thousands of cars in the city. The project which cost the state about 52 million birr (about 2.2 million US dollars),is a system which uses modern Chinese technology to park…
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If you do not know Kiro'o Games, then it's time! Also known as Kiro'o Studios, Kiro'o Games, is a private video, animation, development and publishing company, created in 2003 by Madiba Olivier and based in Yaoundé. In two years (2013-2015), the Cameroonian video game studio Kiro'o Games, raised 130 million CFA francs (198,000 euros) throughout the world to…
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