Afro Cinema: Nollywood festival ends in Paris as ‘About a Boy’ wins top prize
About a Boy, a story about the psychological games played between a writer and his muse by first-time director Diji Aderogba received the highest honour at the 2021 Nollywoodweek Film Festival, the audience appreciation award known as the Prix du Public. The announcement of the winning film marked the culmination...
Raucous nominated senator with skin disability axed from Kenya parliament
Troubled ruling party in Kenya, Jubilee, moved with speed to replace axed Nominated MP Isaac Mwaura with Sammy Leshore for Special Seat for people with disability in the Senate. The latest change happens on the back of a flurry of similar actions in parliamentary leadership that has seen a number...
South Africa’s largest fund administrator goes live with Temenos
Banking software company Temenos has today (Tuesday May 11) announced that South Africa’s largest third-party administrator, Curo Fund Services, has gone live with Temenos Multifonds Global Accounting platform, completing the first phase migration of funds from its five legacy systems to a single instance of Temenos’ award-winning funds administration platform....
Did Kenya’s ‘education delocalisation’ adversely affect exam performance?
Just hours after the Kenya Cabinet Secretary for Education George Magoha released examinations results for the delayed Kenya Certificate of Secondary, questions have already been raised about “education de-localisation” that seems to have adversely affected region that have traditionally performed well in national examinations. Conversely, schools in regions that had...
Invest Africa, DLA strike best practice in African renewable energy projects deal
Global law firm DLA Piper is partnering with Invest Africa, the leading trade and investment platform for African markets to support the development of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) best practice in African renewable energy projects. Clear ESG targets and measurements have become an increasingly important part of fundraising as...
Equatorial Guinea hires a US firm to do a documentary on its oil energy potential
Energy Capital & Power (ECP) has announced a partnership with Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons for the premier US-Africa Energy Forum 2021. ECP in partnership with Equatorial Guinea’s MMH officially commenced work in-country on the Africa Energy Series: Equatorial Guinea 2021 special investor report and documentary film on...
Olympics: Starved of action, Kenyan and South African rugby teams train together
Rugby Africa has embarked on preparation African teams that will represent the continent in the Tokyo Olympic Games by organising a training camp in South Africa. The preparations under #AficaAsOne campaign involve South Africa and Kenya, which have already qualified for the games, while Zimbabwe and Uganda will be using...
How South Africans who lost jobs since onset of Covid struggle to rebuild lives
Some 40 kilometres outside Cape Town, Leebah Bessick wipes sweat from her forehead as she digs a pitchfork into the earth at a neighbourhood community garden. It’s an unseasonably hot day at Blackheath Secondary School and even a shady corner of the garden offers Bessick and fellow gardeners little comfort...
Tanzanian president dazzles Kenyans, resets creaky EAC trade and diplomatic ties
Not before has a Tanzanian president caught the attention and dazzled Kenyans as did the newly installed President Samia Suluhu Hassan during her maiden two-day tour, effortlessly pulling off a diplomatic coup that at the end of her visit endeared her to her hosts whose perception of her predecessors was...
Global pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca starts 120,000 tree project in Kenya
A reforestation initiative introduced in Kajiado County in Kenya will see AstraZeneca and Global EverGreening Alliance lead the efforts to restore degraded agricultural and forest lands through planting 120,000 trees. The project, 70 kilometres south of the capital Nairobi aligns with AstraZeneca’s Global sustainability commitment to environmental protection. The health...
