Posts Tagged with "africa"

Is Kenya beating Nigeria in Internet Business Opportunities?

Monday, March 15, 2010

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This blog post is in reaction to The 3 Reasons Why Kenya is Beating Nigeria in Internet Business Opportunities as published by ICTworks. I was perplexed at the title of the blog post. Could the author Wayan Vota simply be courting controversy as a means of drawing traffic to the blog? I would attempt to review [...]

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FINALLY, YOUNG NIGERIANS GET ANGRY!!!

Monday, March 15, 2010

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Join young Nigerians to demand for a better Nigeria. Find below a release from a youth movement in Nigeria. Fellow Young Nigerians, Did you know that in Nigeria, young people are in the majority? Did you know that young people below 35 make up more than 70 per cent of the population? That means that we have [...]

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Africa Magic Yoruba launches; a 24-hour Yoruba channel on DSTV

Monday, March 1, 2010

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Africa Magic Yoruba and Africa Magic Hausa launched today Monday 1st March 2010. However, this blog post would focus on the journey of how the Yoruba channel came to be. There is no doubt that the country Nigeria is a very important market for Multichoice. Being Africa’s largest population and home to Nollywood, it not only [...]

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Sighting Mount Kilimanjaro

Monday, February 8, 2010

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We were cruising at an altitude of about  34,000 feet from the coastal town of Mombasa headed for Nairobi when the voice of the Kenya Airways pilot broke into the quietness of the flight. I took it to be another routine announcement but it  turned out to be different: ‘…for those seated on the left side [...]

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Mobile Web East Africa 2010 Photos

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

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Mobile Web East Africa 2010 conference photos. Click on the photos for a larger view. Some rights reserved.  

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Kenya’s Tourism Industry is back & a trip to Nairobi National Park

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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Kenya’s tourism industry is back at full steam with earnings from tourism back to where they were before the 2007-2008 Kenyan electoral crisis. I watched Kenya’s Tourism Minister, Najib Balala, confirm the growth in an NTV news report a few days ago. Information available from Kenya’s Ministry of  Tourism website further confirms the sharp decline in [...]

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Akon – Oh Africa (feat. Keri Hilson)

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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Music video by Akon performing Oh Africa. (C) 2009 Universal Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. and I.G. Records, Inc.  

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Kenya: Mobile Web East Africa 2010. Free MobileWorld magazines.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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Nairobi, Kenya – Mobile Web East Africa, an event that focuses on “harnessing the potential of the internet and applications on mobile devices”, starts tomorrow 3rd February 2010 and ends on 4th February 2010, at Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi. The innovative event already has a long roll-call of speakers and facilitators, and has special round-table sessions [...]

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Earthquake scare in Ghana. Is Ghana prepared?

Monday, January 18, 2010

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I woke up to a news report about an earth quake scare in Ghana. An earth quake was supposed to have happened somewhere close to where I live. Yet, I had slept soundly all night and was not ruffled at any point by the earth shaking. It all started with a call I got from a [...]

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Angola 2010: Nigeria faces Egypt

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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The match between Nigeria and Egypt. My tweets: Somebody pinch me. Did Egypt just beat Nigeria? Ouch! That hurts! :-p http://bit.ly/5Eo1ft A well-deserved win for Egypt I guess. 4 extra minutes. The Egyptian keeper is super excited and jumping all over the pitch. What a night. Nigeria 1 – Egypt 3 http://bit.ly/5Eo1ft Agbena!!! (It’s over!!!) [...]

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President Yar’Adua seems alive; Important Questions

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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I rose to back to life from a slumber when I heard a news headline on BBC World Service this dawn, mentioning “President Umaru Yar’Adua”. I have been keenly following the news about his health in the past weeks and mentally sifting out the plentiful chaff of rumours from credible information. The substance of the [...]

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DStv moving to new satellite Eutelsat W7

Saturday, January 9, 2010

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Eutelsat W4, the satellite that beams DStv signals to residents of West Africa, is fast nearing the end of its life span. It was launched on 24th May 2000 from Space Launch Complex 36B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the USA. According to Wikipedia: Following its launch and on-orbit testing, it was placed [...]

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How I found my way to MEST Accra on Google Maps Mobile

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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Meltwater Entrepreneural School of Technology (MEST) in East Legon (a suburb of Accra, Ghana) was the venue of the just-concluded BarCamp Ghana 2009. Aside having interacted with some of the entrepreneurs-in-training (as their students are called) in the past, I knew little about MEST and had no idea of its exact location within East Legon. I [...]

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BarCamp Ghana 2009: GhanaBlogging.com Break-out Session

Monday, December 21, 2009

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GhanaBlogging.com Break-out Session started at 15:20pm and is moderated by Kajsa Hallberg Adu. She started blogged to tell people back home (Sweden) about life abroad (Ghana). Blogging is a conversation and so she sort to meet other bloggers, thus facilitating the creation of GhanaBlogging.com Steve Danso blogs about how technology can affect our business. He blogs [...]

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BarCamp Ghana 2009 Live Report

Monday, December 21, 2009

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BarCamp Ghana 2009 took off to a great start here at MEST in Accra with Patrick Awuah delivering the keynote address. He cited examples from his experience at Microsoft and his current experience with Ashesi University, to drive home the importance of key values like honesty, integrity, trust etc. The theme of this year’s event is [...]

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