So important to highlight the positive. Great list! Are they missing any?
Tag Results: Africa
The Kiira EV, an all-electric plug-in car
Designed by students at Makerere University in Uganda
Africa Investigates is a groundbreaking new series that puts flesh on Al Jazeera’s ambition to give voice to the voiceless. In a world first, this hard-hitting project gives some of Africa’s best journalists the opportunity to pursue high-level investigative targets across the continent - using their unique perspective and local knowledge to put corruption, exploitation and abuse under the spotlight.
All too often in the past, African reporters have not been able to pursue wrongdoing because it involves powerful figures who wield undue influence over local media - financial, corporate or political - or because it is simply too dangerous. Investigative journalism is a perilous profession in many African nations, where intimidation, beatings, imprisonment and death threats can be an occupational hazard. As a result they have often had to sit idly by while Africa’s story has been told by Western correspondents, “parachuted in” for the purpose, who reinforce stereotypical views about African peoples and their supposed inability to face up to and solve their own problems.
Now, determined to tell their own story, Africa Investigates reporters will correct that impression. Working undercover and using hidden cameras, they will expose elaborate frauds and criminal conspiracies, child trafficking, abuse of minorities and high level official corruption. And in the process they hope they will help make African institutions, businesses and politicians more accountable and susceptible to pressure to change things for the better.
Looong overdue. I applaud Aljazeera and these journalists.
WHAT RECESSION??
Infographic: African GPD Growth Rates in 2010. Data from the African Statistical Yearbook.
via afrographique:
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Loving the progression of investment networks for African opportunities…
(via Venture Capital for Africa | Blog | Hard to get to Africa’s SMEs, time to finance the missing middle)
Great article explaining to me why this is my target market.
Just to give some perspective…
Time for me to keep track of African startups
The above graph suggests that income inequality rather than sheer poverty is what leads to uprisings by the people. In both Tunisia and Egypt, the top 10% of the population take most of the country’s income for themselves and don’t leave much for the rest.
Morocco, Algeria, Gabon, and South Africa also seem to be in this category. While Nigeria and the other African countries don’t have such a huge income inequality.
Which means that the next uprising is more likely to happen in Algeria or Morocco rather than in Nigeria.
This is from the comments of this article and I couldn’t agree MORE.
A New Gold Rush | The Wall Street Journal
An interactive feature on Africa’s current economic boom.
Invest in Africa NOW
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“The Africa They Never Show You” — Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa’s busiest corner, which is also sometimes called Wall Street because of the number of people who do currency exchanges. )
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“God helps those who help themselves.”
My Dad told me this all the time growing up. His subtle way of having me get up and do what I need to do to get the job done. Pray yes. But DO. Villages In Action seems to be doing just that - helping themselves.
Read about Villages In Action. The story is inspiring. Within weeks this confernece has gone from a tweeted musing to a sponsored conference event that will stream live for all to hear. Support Villages In Action through sponsorships or volunteerism.
Join VILLAGES IN ACTION on Saturday, November 27 from 3:00PM - 8:00 PM in Kikuube in Uganda; a small village with just over 260 homesteads and a population just over 1000. The mission is obviously profound. Let’s gather and hear what the “poor” have to say about what we have decided for them. We should expect to be surprised at their reporting.
The Longest Par 3 in the World (900 yards)
“The Legend Golf & Safari Resort is situated within the Entabeni Safari Conservancy in the malaria-free Waterberg Region of the Limpopo Province of South Africa…
It is also home to the longest and most extreme par 3 in the world. Set high up on Hanglip Mountain and accessible only by helicopter, this par 3 hole is played from a vertical height of 430 meters (1,410 feet)!
Some additional notes:
- Four separate cameras and the latest tracking equipment allow golfers to follow and capture their tee shot and the flight of the ball
- The fairway is seeded with Cynodon grass and contoured to funnel the ball to the green below
- In celebration of the African Renaissance, the green has been shaped like the map of Africa
- Spotters are posted around the green to let you know where your ball lands
- the 900-yard (830 meter) 19th is used as a playoff hole for major tournaments
- Any hole-in-one will earn a lucky golfer one million US dollars”Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Europe
TIIIIGHT.
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“Somalia is intriguing. Since they 7th century they’ve been refining and working within their Xeer system of community law and have a violent aversion to the authority of any centralized government. It’s also one of the most entrepreneurial, hard-edged business cultures around.”
Hawala Tech and Banks in Somalia — WhiteAfrican
Why I’m interested in Somalia is two-fold. First, I’m interested in watching how the international community tries to force central government on a society that clearly abhors it and functions without it. Second, Somalia is a fascinating study for anyone watching the African tech and business scene. Out of one of Africa’s harshest environments, entrepreneurs thrive.
After reading this very interesting article on the banking system within Somalia, I must say, I am now intrigued given its history of governance juxtaposed with a flourishing entrepreneurial spirit. Can this unique political system (xeer) enact economic policies that can lift up a majority of its citizens?
