By Theodora Aidoo, Face2Face Africa While most kids of her age are schooling, Emmanuella Mayaki, a 10-year-old Nigerian girl, has already earned a living working as a teacher at an after-school club in England. Unlike the usual routine of searching and applying for a job, Mayaki was offered a teaching job at Southfields Primary School, […]
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Journalists cautiously celebrate press freedom in Ethiopia | Al Jazeera
As journalists welcome efforts to support press freedom in Ethiopia, draft law against hate speech causes concerns.
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Africa is creating one of the world’s largest single markets. What does this mean for entrepreneurs? | World Economic Forum
The Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is set to launch on 30th May. If every African country joins, it’s expected to be one of the world’s largest single markets, accounting for $4 trillion in spending and investment across the 54 countries. The AfCFTA will give entrepreneurs across the continent access to a much larger […]
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Google has opened its first Africa Artificial Intelligence lab in Ghana | CNN
Aanu Adeoye, CNN, CNN Farmers in Tanzania are using the Nuru app to better manage their cassava crops. CNN, Featured Image [dropcap]CNN[/dropcap] A rural farmer in Tanzania hovers over a wilting cassava plant with her phone. In seconds she gets a diagnosis of the disease affecting her plant and how best to manage it to […]
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This 26-year-old Nigerian is now the highest paid robotics engineer in the world | Face2Face Africa
Silas Adekunle achieved this feat after signing a new deal with the world’s reputable software manufacturers, Apple Inc.
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Kelechi Udoagwu: Moving Fast and Breaking Things | She. Leads. Africa.
From Tinsel to Technology. Kelechi is changing the narrative of African women in the tech world.
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These 7 African Trailblazers Will Be Speaking at TEDGlobal 2017 in Tanzania – OkayAfrica
TANZANIA—Last month we were excited to share the 10 African innovators among the new class of TED Fellows in anticipation of the TEDGlobal Conference 2017 in Arusha, Tanzania this August.
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In Conversation: The Founder of Afrobytes Tells Us Why the World Needs to Focus on African Tech – OkayAfrica
PARIS—Afrobytes is a technology conference for Africa co-founded by Haweya Mohamed and Amin Youssouf with the ambition of being a technological innovation hub between Africa and the rest of the world and to extend a marketplace for African technologies.
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