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AFC: Norway-based global impact accelerator looking for African startups

on May 03, 2018

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AFC: 11 Kenyan Women Entrepreneurs Making Inspiring Waves across Africa

With the growth of the Kenyan entrepreneurial ecosystem, so has been the rise of female-owned businesses and establishment. This has been driven more by the creation of women-centered policies and programmes for empowerment like the Women Enterprise Fund and women led accelerators and boot camps. But even with these developments, there’s still some resistance and barriers women entrepreneurs are facing when setting up their business. Nevertheless, there’s a new breed of women who have embraced these challenges and propelled against the resistance to create vibrant and thriving businesses in the region. Today, we look at 11 young and intelligent women entrepreneurs who are not just innovating their idea into success but contributing immensely to the growth of the ecosystem. From beauty, Fintech, social enterprises and even human resource, these women have defied the norm to become the ultimate inspiration for business in Kenya and Africa as a whole. 1. Catherine ...

AFC: Diamond Platnumz was not paid to perform with Davido last Saturday (June 16, 2018)

The Nigerian superstar Davido performed in Dar es Salaam last Saturday (June 16, 2018) before he flew to Nairobi to host the exclusive pool party at Kilimani’s B-Club. According to the O nline Newspaper Ghafla Kenya “Davido pulled a surprise on fans when he invited Diamond Platnumz on stage to perform together during Tanzania’s 30 Billion Concert in Dar. Diamond was not slated to perform at the concert. But the two singers performed their 2014 collaborative hit single Number One remix to the delight of fans. People have been speculating that Diamond’s surprise performance at Davido’s concert had been planned and that he was paid to perform. Diamond’s manager Babu Tale has however set the record straight that his boss was only there to support Davido at his request. Babu Tale stresses that Diamond wasn’t paid a dime to perform with Davido”. The same source also cited Babu Tale statement in Swahili language. “Ile ni love tunaita, wale wawili wanazungumz...

AFC: African Agriculture's Future Lies in Cultivating Youth, Not Only Crops

Rural jobs, both on-farm and off-farm, have the potential to attract ... young people in the coming decades - not in traditional "subsistence levels" roles but in lucrative ways which anchor rural communities and connect them more fluidly to their urban counterparts, writes Dr Nteranya Sanginga , days after accepting the Africa Food Prize for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. Photo IITA For more than 50 years, IITA has been breeding improved crops for Africa, from drought-tolerant maize to vitamin-A enriched cassava. These crop improvements have an estimated market value of US $17 billion going back into the African economy. Publicly funded agricultural research centers, referred to as the CGIAR System , have a long history of improving crops and animals around the world to enhance nutrition and livelihoods and create more sustainable food systems. But as we look to the future, we know that we must cultivate more than ...

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