A funny audition on South African Idol 2009 featuring a young South African singing and dancing to “Killing Me Softly With His Song”, in a unique way.

Yes indeed. It is very possible. As a matter of fact, I am a living example and so are hundreds of thousands of people spread across the globe: bloggers, web designers/developers, graphic designers, server administrators, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts, web hosting resellers, domain name resellers, VoIP call credit retailers, e-currency exchangers etc. The list [...]

Following-up on an earlier reply, Obafemi wrote me again, asking how best he could make money online. I chose to answer this question publicly, so as to guide other up-and-coming Internet-based entrepreneurs. I reproduce his email below: Thank you David, I do respect your expediency, I like your blog and I like eolutsin’s blog too. [...]

The Fourth Republic of Ghana is historical for many reasons. It has more women in higher public office than it has ever had, in its 51 years as an independent nation. This post highlights some of the women at the height of power. The Speaker of Parliament Joyce Adeline Bamford-Addo (born 26 March 1937) is [...]

I was quite excited to see CNBC Africa beamed to West Africa on DSTV, yesterday. I had hitherto been looking forward to this since I am fully aware that CNBC Africa is the only serious business TV channel on the continent. CNBC Africa is a television service for Sub-Saharan Africa which was launched by CNBC [...]

One of the hottest Nigerian dot-com brands today is “Naira”, and for good reasons. The Naira is the currency of Nigeria and many have found creative ways to use it for their dot-coms. It is short and relieves it’s users of the burden of the word “Nigeria” whilst still maintaining some appeal to Nigerians. The [...]

It appears Internet connectivity on the African continent especially in Ghana and Nigeria is about to get better soon. The Ghana News Agency (GNA) reports the launch of yet another private effort to improve Internet connectivity in Africa: Work has begun on a 200-million dollar undersea fibre optic cable, which aims to provide reliable Internet [...]

Shocking news. GTV, has ceased operations citing the effect of the global financial crisis. GTV was a multi-channel digital satellite TV service with active subscribers in 22 African countries but their sudden closure has left millions of soccer fans high-and-dry. London-based GTV, launched in June 2008, used Eutelsat’s W3 satellite from 7 degrees East, and [...]