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I spoke with the great Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka about
@HEBobiwine
's bid to be Uganda's next president, his own shared history with Museveni, and why African democracy must prevail via
@qzafrica
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A Zambian creator
A Cameroonian animator
A South African production house
Netflix goes pan-African
Netflix’s first children’s animation from Africa is about an all-girl spy team written by women via
@qzafrica
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This
@brightackwerh
cartoon of Buhari, Sall and Akufo Addo arguing over whose jollof is better as China's Xi Jinping sneaks off with Africa's future is a masterpiece.
-
@qzafrica
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In Zimbabwe this self-taught tutor in a Harare township developed an entire exam prep program on WhatsApp and his students outperformed some of the country's elite schools
via
@restofworld
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Flutterwave, Africa’s top fintech player, is getting ready for an IPO
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Keith Haring, Grace Jones, Jean-Michel Basquiat *and* Fela Kuti in one photo taken by Andy Warhol - New York, 1986
Coolness overload
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Thank you
@NewAfricanMag
for including me on the 100 Most Influential Africans 2018 list.
And HUGE thanks to the incredible
@qzafrica
and
@qz
team who made this possible. There's a lot more to come from these talented, hardworking people.
#100MostInfluentialAfricans
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Very happy to announce that
@onu_kwue
has joined the
@SemaforAfrica
team as a reporter in Lagos, Nigeria.
Alex was previously at Quartz Africa, where he did lots of great work on tech, innovation and business across West Africa as well as its geopolitics
Welcome, Alex!
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Google used machine learning to help create a Nigerian voice and to figure out: what is a "Nigerian accent"?
via
@qzafrica
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Rest of World is hiring our first full time Africa reporter.
You: A sharp, digitally savvy reporter obsessed with the impact of technology across Africa
You can be based in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Lagos, or Nairobi
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On average it costs $17 to send $200 to a recipient in Africa. That would be $4 if the person was in South Korea.
Digital remittances are lowering costs for Africans. Cash costs $19 to send but around $12 with digital
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I wrote about how important
@calestous
was for
@qzafrica
and for innovative thinking in Africa
#RIPCalestous
Calestous Juma’s legacy of supporting innovation in Africa is the gift he gave us all via
@qzafrica
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No matter how many stories we write about it
@qzafrica
I can never get over just how expensive and inconvenient air travel is within Africa
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The unlikely story of a former US Marine who became the darling of Nigerian radio for two decades
A very nice remembrance by radio aficionado
@TheYomiKazeem
on Nigeria radio's Big Dawg via Maryland
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If you told me 20 years ago that in 2021 I'd watch a clip of Black cowboys with Idris Elba, Regina King shooting enemies to a Barrington Levy and Fela Kuti soundtrack...I'd have asked you to share more of your drugs...
This Fall, They Ride!
Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Regina King, LaKeith Stanfield, Delroy Lindo, Edi Gathegi, R.J. Cyler, Danielle Deadwyler and Deon Cole star in The Harder They Fall
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Could you teach calculus in Yoruba or the refraction of light in Hausa? Some have tried in the past.
Here's a fascinating experiment to make this more regular for Nigerian school kids
via
@qzafrica
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"Even if your chokehold guidelines don't kick in, after 11 times of
#ICantBreathe
, when does your humanity kick in?," asks Rev Al Sharpton
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Calling tech writers/reporters from East Africa, we'd love to hear from you for
@restofworld
🇪🇹 •🇰🇪 •🇷🇼 •🇹🇿 •🇺🇬
We're looking for smart, insightful ideas at the intersection of tech, business, economics and people
Email us africa
@restofworld
.org
Asante 🙏🏾
አመሰግናለሁ
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In 2016, Paystack's
@shollsman
pitched
@HoneyOgundeyi
to bring her startup onboard his payments platform.
Five years later and he is a key investor in
@edukoya
Ogundeyi's new startup
African founders are betting on the next generation of startups
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Naspers, once a media stalwart of the Apartheid system, has just appointed first black female CEO
via
@qzafrica
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📢Exciting personal news as we get set to launch Semafor Africa, the first regional edition of
@semafor
this fall.
What is it? Read all about it here in the FT by
@annaknicolaou
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🧵Thanks for the many kind tweets on me leaving Quartz. It was tough to leave such a great place to work and learn
I’m VERY excited to see what the new Quartz Africa team will do next!
Too many to thank for getting
@qzafrica
off the ground:
@delaney
,
@mitrakalita
@zseward
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More than half of Africa's 700,000 software developers are self-taught or learn through online schools rather than established institutions like universities
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**JOB ALERT**
We're looking for a talented journalist to continue the great work of
@TheYomiKazeem
in Lagos.
If you're a reporter who pays attention to detail, keen on tech/innovation and its impact on business/economy and Nigeria's place in the world we want to hear from you
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This great investigative piece by
@ZekuZelalem
on a questionable $3.6 billion oil deal between the Ethiopian govt and a former Ethiopian-American Toyota car salesman from Virginia shows the power of journalists asking simple questions
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Africa’s presidents keep going abroad for medical treatment rather than fixing healthcare at home via
@qzafrica
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In May 19-year old Zimbabwean artist
@ykhulio
couldn't believe his piece: "We'll Meet Again", was up on a digital billboard in New York's Times Square
This is the global age of NFT art
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Investors poured $1.3 billion of venture capital into African startups in 2020 with fintech and solar taking the bulk
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We looked at the key global tech hubs beyond Silicon Valley:
Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬
Recife, Brazil 🇧🇷
Tel Aviv, Israel 🇮🇱
Medellin, Colombia 🇨🇴
Bengaluru, India 🇮🇳
Shenzhen, China 🇨🇳
via
@restofworld
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Netflix is making a big bet on Africa:
@Cikucheru
spoke with
@PearlThusi
about Africans telling their own stories.
@kunleafolayan
flies the Nollywood
@NetflixNaija
flag...big things are coming
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This is a really interesting deal
Exclusive: Ghanaian startup mPharma is buying Kenya’s second-largest pharmacy chain
via
@qzafrica
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“The Trump administration’s expanded travel ban now affects close to a quarter of the population of the African continent,"
@gyude_moore
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In 1936, the US State
Dept. prevented African American supporters from traveling to Ethiopia to take part in its war with fascist Italy.
But a few did, including renowned aviator John C. Robinson, who took charge of Ethiopia’s fledgling Air Force.
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Ghana will enter ‘malaria elimination’ phase in 2024 after a hugely successful years-long vaccine trial
Reporting by
@alexisak
from Accra.
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Africans on Twitter: "Africa is not a country! There's no link between what happens in one country thousands of miles away from another."
Also Africans on Twitter: "Yay, Zuma is gone! Hailemariam is gone! Mugabe is gone! What about Biya? Kabila? Buhari, nko?"
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Namibia has just discovered cobalt and could be the next big supplier for the rechargeable batteries used by the likes of Apple and Tesla
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This is significant revision by World Bank...
Migrant remittances to Africa in a global pandemic are proving more resilient than feared
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Yoruba people have been 'respectfully' using "they" as a singular pronoun in English for 100+ years
If you'd like to read the Oxford English Dictionary's historical analysis on "they" as a singular pronoun see here:
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Fascinating to see how key diaspora remittances are to African economies, but also the sheer size of inflows.
Nigeria 🇳🇬 at $19.2 billion is larger than the next 9 countries combined.
For Somalia 🇸🇴 diaspora remittances make up 24% of GDP
More here:
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“The reality is that as soon as students get into university they focus on their resumes and their first questions are what is the best way is to leave the country?
This is Iran, but heard almost exact comment from a prof at LUTH in Nigeria
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What Princeton/MIT researchers found when they commissioned a Nollywood movie to test Nigerians' attitude to corruption
via
@qzafrica
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How Ernie Barnes’s Paintings Became Celebratory Emblems of Black Southern Life -- and reached everyone through Marvin Gaye's I Want You album cover and TV's Good Times cc
@NewBlackMan
via
@artsy
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New York has 840 bookstores for 8.4 million people
London has 360 stores for 8.7 million people
Lagos has 11 known bookstores for 20 million people
Yes, there are bookshops in Nigeria—but nowhere near enough
via
@qzafrica
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Great scoop from
@alexisak
on Turkey's Karpowership, the 'floating generators' which have become way more influential for the future of power supply in Africa than most people realize and is in talks with new African governments to provide electricity
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This has been a long time coming. There are way too many different types of African stories to tell and to tell well – with nuance and thoughtfulness.
🚨Sign up here for more of our early thoughts about what could be
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African countries, recognizing European visitors have made them vulnerable, are locking out the world to slow coronavirus spread
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"The trouble with Paddy Adenuga’s story is it’s the same kind of story that’s caused so many problems of late in the Nigerian economy."
@DoubleEph
on the depressing predictability of Nigeria’s elite
via
@qzafrica
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A remarkable debut by
@IAtalkspace
in
@restofworld
looking into the internal split and debates among some of president Buhari's closest advisors over the
#TwitterBanInNigeria
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The man is already backtracking on dubious promises. What have you done Britain?
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Payments startup
@paystack
is growing at 20% a month in Nigeria and “we think we’ve barely scratched the surface,” says ceo Shola Akinlade at
#Africa2018
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Interesting to see 16.7% growth in African students studying in the UK while they're in...Africa
A booming sub-sector for UK higher education, with less of the visa hassle
More in
@SemaforAfrica
's newsletter:
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Digital money transactions have seen a major boost across Africa through the pandemic, now more governments want to tax them
@tawakarombo
reports from Harare on Zimbabwe
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Someone's very pleased with themselves for this headline...they should be...
Xi sells Seychelles by India’s seashore as Modi’s foreign policy drowns
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🚨Three very exciting
@Semafor
reporter jobs here with
@SemaforAfrica
for talented journalists
➡️ Joburg 🇿🇦
➡️ Lagos 🇳🇬
➡️ Nairobi 🇰🇪
We're trying to fill these soon so please apply well before Sep 7
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Reminder
@restofworld
is hiring our first full-time Africa reporter to tell important stories about the impact of technology across Africa
You can be based in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Lagos, or Nairobi
Closes on Friday Mar. 26.
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I have never been more disgusted with England. Never! How would you put a 19-year old in this position?
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You could follow NYTimes down Conrad's river of Congo 'natives' or you could read about how modern Africans actually see themselves
#choices
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Africa-focused developer platform Andela becomes a unicorn after $200 million round led by SoftBank, - by
@IAtalkspace
via
@restofworld
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These are incredible images of a forgotten London, and a wonderful backstory of unheralded talent...
"Bandele Ajetunmobi was one of Britain’s first black photographers – yet if his niece had not rescued his negatives after he died in 1994, we would have no evidence of his breathtaking talent."
#TPGHighlights
📷: © "Tex” Ajetunmobi /
@AutographABP
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"If 99.6% of businesses in Nigeria employ fewer than 10 workers, does it make sense to teach Nigerian business students how to manage Fortune 500 companies in the US using Harvard Business School case studies?"
The case for African b-schools
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@qzafrica
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As
#FOCAC2021
wraps up, The real reason China is pushing “digital sovereignty” in Africa - from me with invaluable input from
@ChinaAfrProject
,
@HillmanJE
,
@motolani_agbebi
,
@hmryder
@OvigweEguegu
via
@restofworld
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For young (and some of us older) journalists out there,
@davidpilling
shows how you turn an often overwrought, impassioned Twitter debate into a useful, informative piece with historical context.
Are tech companies Africa’s new colonialists?
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*taps 🎤 🌍!
Are you our next Africa editor at
@restofworld
?
You: creative, ambitious with deep roots in African storytelling and a bias to business/tech
Us: Keen to support your ambition and ideas
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@DoubleEph
The genius of this was I had to read it a couple of times to figure out what they meant, thereby confirming my omo ijinle status
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Benin’s government has shut the internet ahead of an election that has no opposition
(Even Tinder is blocked! 💔🇧🇯)
via
@qzafrica
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As ever
@africatechie
keeps it 💯
Q: What is a key challenge to change perceptions for African female entrepreneurs in tech?
A: It’s hard for Black women everywhere, not just Africa. We Africans will help change perceptions for Black women elsewhere.
❤️
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"Right from the founding of modern Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah preached a pan-Africanism that transcended the shores of Africa."
How Ghana became Africa's home for the world's black diaspora
via
@qzafrica
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"This is how people come to believe they are just victims of history."
What Netflix’s "The Crown" got wrong about Kwame Nkrumah and the Queen’s visit to Ghana.
via
@qzafrica
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African video games boom on mobile, revenues to cross $1 billion next year via
@SemaforAfrica
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Who wants to be a (African) millionaire?
Not Nigerians, Egyptians, or South Africans apparently 🤷♂️
@onu_kwue
finds out where Africa's newest $$$ hotspots are
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So
@pauladepoju
went for a ride on the new Lagos-Ibadan rail for
@qzafrica
and spoke to rail workers who think they need to learn Mandarin to keep their jobs, but also on why Nigeria can do better than Kenya in making its Chinese-built line work
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“
@JohnBennettBBC
: 1 of the best things about
#AFCON2015
; yes it's fans handing over man of the match awards. Best of
http://t.co/Mnjn9NhV9s”
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Mini scoop from me: The White House has quietly appointed a new Africa director via
@SemaforAfrica
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Important story with really smart input from
@EmekaOkoye
and
@TomiDee
E-commerce pioneers in Nigeria are struggling to prove the market’s viability
via
@qzafrica
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Happy New Year to tech/business writers across Africa (yes, North Africa too!), we
@restofworld
are always on the hunt for great ideas to tell stories about the impact of tech on people, businesses and economies
Reach out to us africa
@restofworld
.org with your ideas/pitches
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“My standard for saying a startup is African is simple: the idea originates from Africa and it is founded by an African” -
@asemota
tells
@TheYomiKazeem
Where does that leave Jumia?
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This is such a fun
@restofworld
story out of Bolivia where this family-owned business has reverse-engineered Chinese tech to make single-person mini electric cars
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We're very sad to learn news of the passing of Harvard professor Calestous Juma
@calestous
, a great supporter of
@qzafrica
right from the start. Like us, he was a great believer in the power of innovation in driving the future of the continent.He'll be sorely missed
#RIPCalestous
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Seven in 10 West Africans are turned down for U.S. student visas
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🧵
•What's the $ value of the average African consumer?
•How big is the 'rising' African middle class?
•What digital services do they want?
If you can't answer these questions confidently how do you get the top valuations we see for tech startups?
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*Nigeria's Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Mill on hold due to Russia's war*
...was the headline I didn't know I needed to get my day started with a really good belly-deep guffaw...
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Made in Aba: Nigeria’s next generation of startups are being redefined in the southeast—not just in Lagos via
@qzafrica
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In a move described as "unprecedented", the US president Biden today called on the UN to reform and give Africa and Latin America/Caribbean permanent seats on the UN security council
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How South Africa's "Jerusalema" went from being an African YouTube favorite to becoming the most Shazam-ed song in the world
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In another life after I discover fraud at my e-commerce company the next thing I'll do is pivot to financial services because that's a much easier way to earn consumers' trust
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Er.. interesting RT by the US State Dept's Bureau of African Affairs
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The recent arrival of global VCs, Sequoia, SoftBank, and the return of Tiger Global will be game changing for Nigeria's already booming tech sector and more will big guns will follow, writes
@IAtalkspace
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Let the records show I had nothing to do with this piece of truth-telling in today's Flagship, but it is yet another reason to sign up
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Facebook has taken down hundreds of pro-Museveni accounts in Uganda to curb "voter manipulation" ahead of Thursday's election
#UgandaDecides2021
#UGDecides2021
#UgandaElection
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I wrote a short on
#EndSARS
, Fela Kuti, accountability, young people and the audacity of hope
Nigeria’s EndSARS protests have been about much more than police brutality
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