FASHION: THE NEW AFRICAN FRONTIER
June 16, 2015 Stereotypes and a lack of personal interaction can be a barrier to understanding and connection. Most people find investing in the unknown and the unfamiliar to be a challenge and I guess that is normal where human nature only leads us to give money to people we trust. The grocery cashier takes
Photographic competition aims to showcase Africa’s positive side
June 15, 2015 All too often, people carry negative perceptions of Africa. A photographic competition hopes to change that, and show off a vibrant and vast continent at work. The 2015 Africa Agility photo competition wants budding photographers from across the world to capture an “Africa booming with tech-savvy, youthful consumers, fast-paced urbanisation, and enormous
Five Tips For Success By Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs
June 15, 2015 Being a young entrepreneur is difficult, no matter where you are from. But in Africa, the challenges are often far more emphasised. Resources, financing, mentorship and supporting services are even scarcer. Yet despite this, the continent’s youth unemployment is higher than elsewhere, and for many young Africans, entrepreneurship is less of a
Africa’s Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs: Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30 For 2015
June 13, 2015 We have selected 30 for the future in a number of key fields that drive economic growth. You may not know many of their names now, but in 20 years they could be on the cover of FORBES AFRICA with their story of multi-million-dollar success. We hope so. For now, look, debate
Why Billionaires Are Increasingly Preferring Black Women As A Partner
June 13, 2015 An interesting sociological trend has been recently observed within the small circles of the wealthy and powerful. Tabloids and other news outlets that specialize on gossip and lifestyle are reporting that more billionaire men can be seen with gorgeous and elegant dark-skinned women by their sides. In reality, this observation is nothing
Rich, urbane and entrepreneurial: meet Africa’s new super-rich with a taste for the London lifestyle
June 12, 2013 Africa’s super-rich are pouring money into prime property, eyeing up Premier League clubs and splashing the cash on designer wares. Alice-Azania Jarvis reports on the new global elite For her 18th birthday last year Temi Otedola wanted to celebrate in style. So her family hired One Mayfair and threw a bash none
Nollywood takes on Paris
June 10, 2015 It’s being called “Nollywood sur Seine” – a Nigerian film festival, which wrapped up its third edition in Paris Sunday. Nigeria is now the world’s second-largest movie producer, but film quality has not always been tops. That is changing, however. Move over Hollywood. After India’s famous “Bollywood”, Nigeria’s “Nollywood” is now the world’s
Black children are not even safe from police violence at a pool party
June 9, 2015 WATCH VIDEO HERE Over the weekend, a video surfaced that showed police in McKinney, Texas violently controlling kids on a suburban street and pulling a gun on a young black girl. After I heard about it, it took a few hours before I could screw up the courage to watch it, because
YVONNE CHAKA CHAKA: THE FIRST AFRICAN WOMAN TO RECEIVE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM’S CRYSTAL AWARD
June 6, 2015 loves singing. In her hand, she held music and took it round the orbit of fame. Yielded to the call of stardom; she never got locked up in the unpleasantness that folded the untapped talents of many African women who have given it all to fate and circumstances. In fact, she never
Misgendering Attacks On A Black Woman’s Femininity Aren’t Funny
June 4, 2015 Someone in a spasm of creativity decided to do a parody of the Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair cover in which they stuck Wendy Williams on a fictional EBONY magazine cover with the caption ‘Call Me Walter’. While I have major issues with Wendy Williams problematically using transphobia in her rise to shock-jock