Tag Archives: African skills

Researchers, political decision-makers and development actors coming from Africa and elsewhere, are meeting from 1st to 3rd November in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in order to explore issues and existing executives in Africa regarding production of knowledge. This meeting is organized within the framework of the 9th edition of the African …

The Ghanaian RLG company proceeded a few weeks ago to the presentation of Uhuru Classic, a new generation Smartphone made by the aforementioned company. The hone compatible with Google and Android applications 4.2.1, is sold at 200 dollars, a competitive price on Smartphones market in Africa. Uhuru phones are equipped …

The ambition of the African Network for Defense of Users, Consumers and Citizen (RADUCC) is to make the knowledge produced by African brains serve African needs: political stability, performance of education systems, improvement of the sanitary systems, economic growth, improvement of standard living welfare of populations. It is from this …

The program « Financial Independence Summer Camp » (TREASURY) is a new initiative that offers the possibility to African young people, the keys of entrepreneurship in a world where the employment market becomes more and more saturated.   Set up on the basis of a tripartite partnership between the embassies of Benin, …

« Nappys de babi » is organizing on 16th August in Abidjan, a festival called Crépu d’Ebène. Placed under the theme « natural welfare« , this meeting with professionals of beauty care will be the opportunity for the Ivory Coast women to learn natural techniques of taking care of their skins and hair.   …

The University of Djibouti operated a high level software system in order to concretize its project of supplying a higher education to students of East African countries. Financed by the ministry of the higher education, the e-campus platform of the University of Djibouti was revealed during a ceremony in which …

Togo cuts fine figure regarding technological innovation. After the second prize of the innovation for Africa 2014 won by Logou Minsob with the Foufoumix, another Togolese in the name of Afate Kodjo Gnikou has just won prize of the technological innovation in Barcelona (Spain) with « Wafate« , a 3D printer made …

He was one of the main participants and presenters of New York Forum Africa that took place a few weeks ago in Libreville. JX Paulin is a French-Togolese entrepreneur who has settled down in China since about twenty years already. Being successful as entrepreneur and having acquired a robust experience, …

The Francophone University Agency (AUF), a world French-speaking universities association, very active in Africa and the Development Research Institute (IRD), a French public institution with scientific and technological character dealing with decisive questions for the South, are putting together in order to develop and strengthen the scientific exchanges between the …

Mozambicans attended to a major event on last 5th and 6th June in Maputo. It was the first edition of the TechCamp meeting in Southern Africa called « TechCamp« . Jointly organized by the United States embassy and the cooperation of Switzerland embassy, the objective was to teach how to use technology …

Through e-readers, it is henceforth possible to have access to the digital book in Africa and at the modest price of 650 FCFA. This, thanks to the application « Quick Do« , developed by the French-Cameroonian, Dominique Buendé. Rewarded in 2013 through the « Orange Social Prize » for the same innovation, the developer …

They are five young visionaries to have impressed the Royal Society, the institution of London for science promotion, within the framework of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise 2014. They are Neeti Kailas, 29 years old (India), Olivier Nsengimana, age 30 years old (Rwanda), Francesco Sauro, 29 years old (Italy), Arthur …

The cabinet of the Guelem Consulting Group (GCG) organized on 21st June in Brazzaville, a seminar aiming at popularizing its initiatives and concepts on the global management of the supply chain. Last January, during the first edition, the mark-log concept, centered on the businesses of logistics and marketing synchronization in …

It is fabulous! The Moroccan start-ups that showed innovation in the new technologies domain will be rewarded on Thursday, 19th June by the American giant, Google. The initiative came from the Mundiapolis University, the carrier of the project « Morocco Innovation Prize« . Innovation and technological development is essential stakes in the …

The Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) could be a solution for the more and more plethoric number of students in the African universities. The French-speaking university Agency (AUF) selected four colleges of Africa to experiment the new technique of fashionable education in the West.   The first MOOCs that will …

The Web Ranking University, a foundation of the Reuters group has just published the classification 2014 of the best 100 universities of the African continent. Egypt and South Africa stand at the first 11 positions of which « Cairo University Egypt« , ranked first by the Top 100. Nigeria, the first economic …

The Togolese writer, Badanadu Ago Tchao, proceeded last Friday to the launching of his collection « Contes et Légendes du Togo » (Tales and Legends of Togo), published at the Continents Editions. The work, made up of 14 tales, safeguards the cultural treasure of Togo. For the author of the work, it …

Alain Foka belongs to the list of the most influential African French-speaking journalists of the World. Committed to the regeneration of the history of Africa, he is the author of the famous sentence « No one is allowed to erase a page from the history of a nation, for a nation …

« When an old man dies in Africa, it is a whole library that burns« . This famous sentence of the Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ illustrates the incapacity of the African continent to keep its ancestral values. Gaston Donnat Bappa, a Cameroonian engineer proposes a solution for the loss of Africa …

  Six young Togolese people were selected by the United States Embassy of Togo to participate in the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) in the United States.   They are: Akizou Bataba (public Civil servant / administration); Ayaovi Akomatsri (Journalist at Focus Infos), Combey Combetey (Director, Africa Rendez-vous), Biema Abdel-Hamid …

Adebayor Sheyi is enjoying good time in Lomé. The striker of Tottenham in holidays in the Togolese capital town for some days, enjoying himself as he usually does it. Considered as one of the major stars of the country, Emmanuel Adebayor visited on Saturday another Togolese who is also making …

The preparatory meeting at the summit of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) on infrastructures financing opened on Saturday, 14th June in Dakar, Senegal. About one hundred of Experts as well as government representatives of African countries, technical and financial partners and representatives of employers are taking part in …

Of Zambian origin but living in the United Kingdom, Samkeliso Kimbinyi created a buzz in the world of information and communication technologies (ICTS) by becoming one of the youngest Microsoft Qualified Professionals (Professionals certified by the Microsoft Company in Europe).   Known under the name Sam, Samkeliso Kimbinyi is in …

They are engineering science students and they are carrying an innovative and useful project that shows the potential of the young Moroccans. They are three young students who have just worked out a robot that can help people with reduced mobility to realize certain movements of a single look. Baptized …

« 21 days of y’ello care « , the project of the mobile telephony company MTN that aims at putting its staff at the service of the community activities in the countries where it is installed, is for its eighth edition this year. Placed under the theme, « Invest in education for all« , the …

Based in Lomé (Togo) the hub of the Pan-African airline company Asky could be soon relocated in Accra (Ghana). Ethiopian Airlines holder of 40 % of the capital of the company could sell its share to South African Airways (SAA). The information was revealed last Sunday by the magazine « Air …

N’Djamena, the Chadian capital town is getting ready to welcome from 9th to 12th September 2014, the African Information and Communication Technologies (ICTS) fair. As several countries of Central and southern Africa, Chad is committed to make of ICTS, a driving force for the economy development of the country. Since …

The on-line sale site of Nigerian, Jumia is celebrating its 1st year anniversary. While the start-up employed only about ten people during its beginnings, it henceforth counts more than 450 employees. Here is the incredible story of an E-commerce site that sails before the wind. One year of success. The …

He does not satisfy himself with staying in office consulting patients, giving prescriptions and distributing condoms. He is doing more by going to the help of the poorest populations in Africa through his NGO Aimes-Afrique, Doctors International Association for the development of Education and Health in Africa. Bringing the hospital …

The board of directors of the African Media Initiative (AMI) promoted last Saturday the Cameroonian Eric Chinje at the executive management of the organization. With his 16 years spent in communication domain, the former journalist of the Radio Cameroon and Television (CRTV) has all the skills to effectively manage the …