Promoting Africa
Hundreds of millions of people live without access to the grid in Africa. Too expensive to put up, the grid might most likely never reach them. An alternative to is, is what we call off-grid. Lumos Global is an off-grid solar provider operating in Nigeria. The company offers Pay-as-you-go off-grid solar energy solutions which are on the…
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Microsoft recently announced that it plans to open two data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town as part of an expansion that stretches across 40 regions globally. One of the reasons why internet connections in Africa often appear slow is because much of the content being requested is hosted on servers outside the continent. Indeed, companies…
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On May 31 2017, the Kenyan government inaugurated its new railway, also called Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), linking the port of Mombasa to the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The construction of this new railway, 90% funded by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) at a cost of $3.3 billion, replaces part of the 1,062km line known…
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The company KmerPad produces washable and reusable sanitary napkins entirely made in Cameroon, and less expensive than disposables. The creation of the company In Africa, one in ten girls do not go to school during their menstruation (NGO Plan International). To cope with the desertion of the classes of young Cameroonians during their menstrual periods,…
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According to the African Academy of Languages (Acalan), created in 2005 by the African Union (AU) and based in Bamako, there are more than 2,000 languages in Africa belonging to four major families. Among these languages, about a hundred would be mastered by more than a million speakers. The most spoken would be in order:…
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UniRank, the international higher education directory reviewing accredited Universities and Colleges in the world, recently provided its 2017 top 200 best African universities. UniRank™ includes 12,358 Colleges and Universities, ranked by web popularity, in 200 countries. In this 2017 ranking, South African Universities are at the top, followed by Kenya's University of Nairobi and Egypt (The American University…
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With its 12.1 million inhabitants on 1st of July 2016 (UN), Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), becomes the largest French-speaking city in the world, ahead of Paris with approximately 10.9 million inhabitants the same year. It should also be noted that the DRC is the first French-speaking country in the…
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