Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

The Scramble For Africa Continues — iROKOtv Closes $8M To Be The Netflix Of Africa

Only yesterday German e-commerce incubator and cloning giant Rocket Internet and MTN partnered to develop internet businesses in Africa through Africa Internet Holding (AIH), a vehicle to develop e-commerce businesses across the continent (alongside partner Millicom International Cellular).  They

Top 10 Philanthropists from Africa

An estimated US$7 billion is given away every year by Africa’s philanthro-capitalists – at least the ones we know about. These are the men (sadly no women yet on this list) providing home-grown solutions to local needs.  Mertech Group founder and Africa's leading philanthropist Francois van

Dark Skin May Have Evolved to Protect Against Skin Cancer

When it comes to skin color, the idea that we're really all the same isn't just a utopian dream. A look at skin cancer from an evolutionary perspective suggests that maybe once we were all white; then we were all black; then some of us went back to white. A scientist argues that once we were all

Being Gay in Africa: A Vice or a Virtue?

Prior to the Sochi Winter Games in Russia, there was a global uproar mainly from the western world directed to Russia due to its draconian laws and views on homosexuality. Fast forward and shift from the massive Eurasian subcontinent to Africa and to Uganda specifically. President Yoweri Museveni was