China’s latest gift to Ivory Coast is a 60,000-seat stadium
April 27, 2015 When China’s Premier Li Keqiang toured Africa last year he pledged an additional $12 billion in credit and funding. The Chinese credit train is now in Ivory Coast, where China will finance the construction of a 60,000-seat stadium, which will be completed before 2021 when the West African country hosts the African Cup of
Is Facebook The Internet In Africa? 65% Of Nigerians Think So
April 24, 2015 A recent survey by mobile surveying company Geopoll and World Wide Worx showed that 65 percent of Nigerians think “Facebook is the internet”, while 9 percent of the social media site users in the west African country said they had “never used the internet”. The Mobile Africa 2015 study, which surveyed 3,
21 African Artists To See At Venice Biennale 2015
April 24, 2015 The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) returns for the 56th time this May. Founded in 1895 as an International Art Exhibition, the Biennale ultimately expanded into the realms of music, cinema, theatre, architecture and, most recently, dance. In 2013 Okwui Enwezor, the Nigerian-born curator, art critic, editor, writer and Director of the
American Dr, Adeniran Abraham Ariyo Calls For Mass Slaughter Of Igbos In Lagos
April 24, 2015 This has to be the most distasteful piece I have ever read all through the past hour (I read many crazy stuffs like that every other minute), but this man has got so much effrontery to utter such arrogance statement in the public! worst of it all is he does not live
It’s showtime! NBA announces its first game in Africa
April 24, 2015 The NBA announced Wednesday that it will play its first ever exhibition game in Africa on August 1 at Ellis Park Arena in Johannesburg, South Africa. Team Africa will tip-off against Team World and will feature two-time NBA All-Star Luol Deng, born in South Sudan, as its captain. The Miami Heat star
‘Desperate Housewives Africa’ To Debut In 44 Countries
April 22, 2015 Set and shot in Lagos, Nigeria, “Desperate Housewives” — the African version — features a pan-African cast and will premiere on April 30, airing in 44 countries on the continent, according to an IndieWire blog. The original ABC TV series in the U.S. followed the lives of a group of women for eight seasons over 13 years as
Ten Reasons Why Diezani Alison-Madueke MUST Go To Prison By Churchill Okonkwo
April 22, 2015 For the light of the fight against corruption to be turned on in the dark alleys of NNPC and the “fake” deregulation of the downstream oil sector aka “oil subsidy”, Diezani Alison-Madueke MUST go to prison. Releasing the $20 billion audit report will not only send Diezani to prison but will also
What Most Africans Use Cell Phones For May Surprise You. Or Not
April 22, 2015 Just one in five Africans use their mobile phones to access social media but four out of five use them to send text messages, and more than half use them to take photos, according to a survey of seven African countries, PCTechMag reports. A new study by the Pew Research Centre was based on 7,052 face-to-face interviews
Nigerian marathon runner achieves North Pole dream
April 16, 2015 The first Nigerian to do the North Pole Marathon tells the BBC how proud she felt to plant her country’s flag in the snow at the end of the race. Tuedon Morgan, 42, said Antarctica, where she has been on two previous trips, was a playground compared to her experience at the
How to understand Africa’s middle class
April 15, 2015 The middle class in Africa is growing. That much we know. But depending on who you speak to you and how you measure it, you can get a very different picture of its size. It makes a huge difference, for example, if you decide that people with incomes above $2 or $4