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 | Saidah Nash Carter How to unleash the potential of Africa 4.0 and the potential of emerging technologies to benefit the continent, through innovation and co-creation... read |
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 | Home-grown African brand Dangote is on track to becoming the world's largest exporter of rice in five years time... read |
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 | World Bank group launches new program to support Africa's top digital entrepreneurs... read |
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 | Gabriella Mulligan African startups perform poorly in comparison to their global counterparts when it comes to revenues, fundraising, and job creation, according to data released by startups pitching competition Seedstars World... read |
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 | The Africa in Motion Film Festival has announced the launch of its new African Film Database with a catalogue of over 1,500 films... read |
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 | Startupbootcamp (SBC) will be launching its new accelerator programme in Cape Town. Startups from around the world are invited to apply now... read |
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 | At the annual F8 developer conference, held in San Jose, California, African developers shared the stage with Facebook and developers from around the world... read |
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 | The dti to showcase South Africa's best in goods and services at Zimbabwe International Trade Fair... read |
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 | African youth are yearning for a greener existence after mass urbanisation has created overcrowding and other societal changes... read |
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 | ICASA signs a technical agreement with the communications regulator of Mozambique to collaborate on telecommunications and broadcasting services... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Ethiopian water network management startup Triple Bottom Line Enterprises has been accepted into the Silicon Valley-based water innovation accelerator ImagineH2O... read |
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 | Jaco Maritz Transportation network company Uber had to tweak its developed-country business practices to align with the local realities in African countries such as South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria... read |
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 | AU Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression asked to intervene in Cameroon human rights and freedom of expression crisis... read |
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 | In an extract from Deloitte's 'African trends going into 2017 - How business needs to plan for the changing continent' report, economic diversification is encouraged... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Lagos has the most valuable startup ecosystem in Africa, with the local entrepreneurship scene worth US$2 billion, according to a new report... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Uber-style on-demand taxi hailing app Waryaa Taxi has launched in Somalia, allowing passengers to book taxis from their smartphones for the first time in the country... read |
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 | Digital education is being rolled out in Rwanda by the government in partnership with Microsoft... read |
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 | Russell Southwood African mobile operators start entering into deals with major broadcasters over streaming and download services... read |
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 | Burson-Marsteller Africa is a big winner at the first-ever African SABRE Awards in public relations... read |
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 | Private radio operators in Mali on Sunday denounced a state crackdown on pirate broadcasters, with 47 stations threatened with closure for failing to obtain licences... read |
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 | A new study from Verint and Opinium Research reveals that customer experience (CX) is considerably more nuanced than many businesses realise and they should focus on both traditional and digital interactions... read |
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 | Quinton Jones Let's face it, 2017 is already tougher than 2016, which was in turn was tougher than the previous year. The advertising industry is under pressure, and media agencies are not excluded from this... read |
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 | Vaughan Patterson Publications can improve advertising revenues if they take advantage of real-time print adverts and that will help not only their ailing fortunes but the ailing fortunes of publishing printers, too... read |
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 | Smart data report out now from Wan-Ifra... read |
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 | Dr. Ludi Koekemoer Today's traditional media is rapidly evolving towards the marketing of the future. The ‘brandscape' has changed dramatically in a short space of time and marketers are struggling to keep pace with the new environment... read |
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 | Parusha Partab In prehistoric times, great stories were told sitting around a campfire. In the glow of the flames storytellers would share exciting tales to impart information, to teach, to encourage and to entertain. Storytelling is an evolutionary mechanism crucial to human communication and central to our success... read |
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 | Annabel Porter A new generation of celebrities are teaching brands a great deal about how to generate content consumers engage with. read |
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 | Cari Coetzee "Africa's online landscape is mobile but mostly feature phone based. Travel still needs to better embrace mobile by delivering mobile and thumb ready experiences to the African youth." read |
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 | Brendan Seery I was having an interesting discussion last week with someone who is in the image processing business and he was lamenting the fact that there is so much video around these days - in all areas of life, not just in the marketing sector - that it is becoming like wallpaper and in danger of losing its impact... read |
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 | Bank Windhoek has embraced mobile technology to launch the first mobile fuel payment system in Namibia... read |
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 | Casablanca and Nairobi rank as leading destinations for Fortune 500 companies establishing international headquarters in Africa... read |
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 | The Crazy Store opens its 300th store today, 13 April 2017, at the Kyalami Corner Shopping Centre in Midrand... read |
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AFRICA Safaricom signs partnership agreement with Kwesé TVSafaricom has signed a video distribution partnership agreement with Kwesé TV. The partnership with Kwesé TV extends Safaricom's digital services offered to its subscribers.
Subscribers will be able to stream Kwesé's programming on their portable devices through data bundles, which will be made available to Safaricom customers. read |
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 | Amplify, a paid fellowship for content creators launched in 2016, has seen its first graduates qualify. Three teams of young storytellers from Rwanda, Kenya and Nigeria presented their final projects to a judging panel, comprising Professor Bitange Ndemo, Pamela Sittoni of Nation Media Group, Patricia Obozuwa of GE Africa and Google Kenya's Charles Murito... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach A few years ago, there was a sense of hope and optimism around Africa. Today that sense has faded and so we need to work to get back to that. Despite this, Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, says he is optimistic about the continent... read |
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 | PrideTV has made the switch from pure streaming television to online lifestyle destination by continuing to tell the stories of Africa's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, while offering curated and free content from a variety of local and overseas sources... read |
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 | Amarula's efforts to save the African elephant has stepped up another gear by releasing 400,000 bespoke Amarula bottles to communicate that there are now only 400,000 elephants left in the wild... read |
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 | Colleen Goko Africa is falling off the immediate radar of local retailers after the region posted its slowest growth rate in two decades in 2016, and with the outlook for 2017 looking as unpromising, most companies are changing their focus from expansion to improving customer experience... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Here's what Herman Wasserman, professor of media studies at UCT and Lauren Green, senior analyst at BrandsEye mentioned at Safrea Cape Town's recent fake news event... read |
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 | The downgrading of SA's credit rating will also have a regional impact. If the economy is to move into a recession, it will lead to a reduced demand for imports... read |
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 | The International Islamic Trade Financing Corporation has organised its first B2B meeting between African cotton suppliers and Bangladesh cotton importers, as part of its Cotton Development and Partnership Programme... read |
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 | Addressing attendees at a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Africa, Abel Sithole, senior research associate at the Institute of Futures Research (IFR) of the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), asked “What is Africa to you?” read |
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 | At MipTV in Cannes, BBC Worldwide announced it has licensed over 400 hours of programming across Africa in the first part of 2017... read |
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 | At this year's WAN Summit in New York City, Michele McCann, business development manager at Teraco stated that the amount of businesses embracing an online strategy is driving an urgent review of legacy infrastructure... read |
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 | LAGOS, Nigeria: Corruption watchdogs alleged on Monday that Shell executives knew that money earmarked for a controversial oil deal was being used to bribe senior Nigerian officials, a claim rebuffed by the petroleum giant... read |
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 | KAMPALA - A prominent female academic and activist was charged on Monday with cyber-harassment for calling President Yoweri Museveni a "pair of buttocks" in a Facebook post... read |
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 | Innovation Agency, WWC is quickly becoming recognised as an agency that understands a continent with very unique business challenges. Through its partnerships with global brands, they have provided digital services in Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, Zambia, Rwanda, Egypt, Zimbabwe and Namibia... read |
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 | Manusha Pillai It may not be immediately apparent about why, and indeed whether, leadership matters in brand building. After all, at first glance, it may seem that a successful brand can be built through the technical application of principles of brand building and management... read |
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 | UPDATE: Tony Koenderman's family have announced the details for his memorial service... read |
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 | Mike Jones One of the many benefits of working for an advertising agency is that I get to experience working with numerous and diverse businesses. During my interactions one thing is very clear - to create consistency in the mind of the consumer, one needs a single, definable brand expression... read |
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 | Issued by Nielsen Kenya's consumer confidence has dropped 11 points however this is still a positive result as it is above the 100-point level and is despite the drought situation in the country, which has resulted in rising food prices... read |
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 | Issued by Nielsen The latest Nielsen Africa Prospects Indicator (APi) points to the fact that predictions are that the worst is over and it will not take much to drive the Nigerian economy into positive growth levels in 2017... read |
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 | ‘World leaders on Instagram' is Burson-Marsteller's latest research into how world leaders, governments and international organisations communicate via social media... read |
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 | Added Value highlights five social good innovations from around the globe... read |
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 | Following its reacquisition from Tiger Branded Consumer Goods of South Africa, the Nigerian Dangote Flour Mills has returned to profitability after four years of losses... read |
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 | Nigeria and more than 100 other nations have signed a key trade facilitation agreement (TFA) with the World Trade Organisation... read |
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 | Hotel investment in Africa made progressive strides, new hotels launched in cities across the continent, and new opportunities and challenges presented itself in 2016 amid economic and political events... read |
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 | Alvar Mwakyusa Over 7,000 households in Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi are set to benefit from 80 megawatts of electricity from the Rusumo Falls hydro-electric project... read |
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 | At the recent annual Banker Africa - Southern Africa Awards 2017, FNB was selected as the Best Retail Bank in Southern Africa... read |
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 | The downturn clearly demonstrated why we need to rethink rents-based mineral sector management... read |
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 | The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, has formally reopened for operations after six weeks of closure with an Ethiopian Airlines Airbus A350-900, the first plane to land at the repaired runway.... read |
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 | The Baker McKenzie report ‘A growth engine: Trends and outcomes of private equity in Africa' shows private equity activity in Africa will inject billions of US dollars of sustainable investment over the next five years... read |
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 | Mike Whitfield Almost four years after Nissan ventured into auto assembly in Nigeria, it fills me with pride when I comment on our success as an auto company operating in Africa... read |
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 | United Nations and African Union sign new partnership framework to better respond to evolving challenges... read |
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 | According to Jervis Zimba, president of the Zambia National Farmers' Union (ZNFU), “The only way we can achieve the status of being a breadbasket is to zero rate agriculture.” read |
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 | Last night, Thursday, 20 April 2017, saw the announcement of the top 10 companies selected for the Barclays Accelerator 2017 Africa programme... read |
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 | The combined Kenyan and Tanzanian decorative paints and coatings market is expected to achieve a CAGR of 6.7% up by 2020... read |
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 | Rwanda's government announced on Wednesday, 19 April, it had discovered Fall armyworm on its crops, making it the third east African country afflicted by the plant-eating pest also recently spotted in Kenya. read |
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 | Andy Walker South Africa. Another large, populous country in Southern Africa that harbours a wealth of promise, but hasn't yet lived up to it this century... read |
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AFRICA - Philip Gray named GIBB Capital managing principal - more info
AFRICA - Adama Soro to lead Engen in Mauritius - more info
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