Africaincorp
Nairobi-
Smart Youth Investments Ltd wants to
To enhance Kenyan Youth financial management skills
To popularize stock trading at the Nairobi Stock Exchange
To encourage the culture of thrift or saving
Register here [if attending school in Kenya]
Yaounde-
Klebert, a student of mathematical finance from Cameroon... has for objective to manage the wealth of his country more effectively and efficiently.
The Emergent African Land Fund will offer investors the opportunity to participate in the growing Sub-Saharan agricultural sector. It will apply modern management disciplines and introduce improved farmland techniques to increase crop yields and investment returns.
The investment focus will be in South Africa. The portfolio will be expanded within Africa to include (but not limited to) countries such as Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Swaziland and the DRC.
Register [US citizen excluded]
Harlem-
Johannesburg-
Vodacom ,a pan-market mobile telecommunications company, that provides cellular service to an estimated 30.2 million customers in South Africa, Tanzania, Lesotho, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Editor's note: Vodacom is the result of a 50/50 partnership between British Vodafone[ Lse:VOD;Nyse:VOD;FWB:VOD] and South African Telkom[Nyse:TKG;JSE:J653]
Le Quartier Français is an exclusive boutique hotel situated in the heart of the Franschhoek Valley, Cape Winelands.
During your stay, explore the village's quaint shops, galleries, the chocalaterie, chacuterie or enjoy wine tasting, fly-fishing, horse riding and golfing. Eating is not a problem in Franschhoek - the gourmet capital of South Africa-abundant with great cafes and restaurants and more than 40 wineries to visit.
Online Booking
Harare-
Trust, a Zimbabwean student of mathematical finance, expresses the new confidence that has come from his studies at AIMS. Now his desire is to help his field of study grow in Africa and to help push his country forward.
Addis-Abeba-
"Roses production has been chosen in Ethiopia in order to revive the country's economy and counter unemployment in rural regions. "(F. Berruyer)
Via France24
Conference[18-20 June]-
Card Expo West Africa 2008 agenda[Not all points included]:
Payment and National Economic Development
Perspectives on Retail Card Payment System
Preventing, Detecting and Managing Fraud - Implementing Tools and Practices for Success
Optimizing your card business
Retail Card Strategy to bank the Unbanked
Key factors for a successful POS deployment in Africa
Register here
Proud sponsor of the event are: Naira.net,Supercard Nigeria, and Chams.
Lagos-
Even if the event has already passed, we point you to The Future Nigeria awards.Let's look forward to the 2009 edition.
The Future...” is a celebration of youth and achievement – it honors young Nigerian achievers between the ages of 18 and 31...
In different sectors – from business, through the entertainment industry up to advocacy – young people are beginning to take charge and to take over. A revolution has taken place, a positive one, and what we are doing is accelerating this change, to encourage it, and to sustain it. Looking away will be a dis-service...
The Claymore/BNY Mellon Frontier Markets ETF (the "Fund") seeks investment results that correspond generally to the performance, before the Fund’s fees and expenses, of an equity index called The Bank of New York Mellon New Frontier DR Index.
The Fund will normally invest at least 80% of its total assets in securities of issuers from Frontier Market countries (whether directly or through ADRs or GDRs). The Fund, using a low cost “passive” or “indexing” investment approach, will seek to replicate, before fees and expenses, the performance of the Frontier Index.
The Index tracks the performance of companies from countries that are defined as the “Frontier Market, that trade on the London Stock Exchange (“LSE”), New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), American Stock Exchange (“AMEX”) and Nasdaq Stock Market (“NASDAQ”)
The index construction include[but not limited to]: Ghana,Kenya,Egypt,Malawi,Mauritius,Morocco,Nigeria,Tunisia,Zimbabwe,
Image via WikipediaAfrica has lower inflation; higher foreign exchange reserves...more importantly, real incomes are rising and Africans are getting richer at an unprecedented rate.
In 1997-2002, real GDP per capita rose at a rate of 1.8 per cent per annum, this was up to 4.6 per cent in 2007. At 1.8 per cent per annum it takes 39 years for real incomes to double, but at 4.6 per cent per annum real incomes double within 15 years...China, India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa have been substantial investors in sectors as diverse as mining, oil, banking, retail and telecommunications.
New technologies are throwing up new business models...city dwellers are texting airtime back which is then redeemed for cash.
Ignoring Africa today is like not investing in emerging markets in the 1990s, south east Asia in the 1970s and 1980s and Japan in the 1950s.[Financial Times]
San Francisco-
"Underneath all the changes - business becoming increasingly distributed, users becoming more knowledgeable, old industry models collapsing, and everything and everybody becoming networked - is one fundamental phenomenon: decentralization.At Supernova,we bring together business, government, and technology thought leaders to understand how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world.”
Who should attend this conference[16-18 June]:
Technology Executives
* Business Strategists
* Entrepreneurs
* Venture Capitalists
* Technologists
* Policy Makers
* Investment Bankers
* Service Providers
* Industry Media and Analysts
Register here [ conference is June 16-18 2008]
New York-
Attendees to the just closed conference learned to :
Identify and acquire potential new brands or properties.
Strike deals with licensors and manufacturers for exclusive product development.
Explore current trends via movie studios, brand owners, and licensors in the U.S. and international markets.
Educate yourself about licensing at the Licensing University Conference Program.
Topics on the agenda included but where not limited to:
The new media licensing revolution
Working with licensing agents
Getting your brand ready for licensing
The new consumer, the new retail and licensing in the new world
Essential trends in corporate licensing
Innovative promotion and creative public relation
License valuation and royalties rate trends
The legal side of licensing
Cape Town-
The first Pecha Kucha Night Cape Town will be taking place Thursday 19 June at What if the World Gallery.
Pecha Kucha Night is a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system:
Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.
Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a platform where can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor[ consider reading Wallpaper]
The sound of conversation has spread virally to over 100 cities across the world.African cities include for now,Cape Town and Lagos.
Harare,Abidjan,Tunis,Dakar,Nairobi,Ouagadougou,Niamey,Kinshasa,Kigali with their vibrant scene should follow suit.
Global cities with proeminent Afropolitan population include,New York,Paris,Madrid,DC,Atlanta,London,Amsterdam,Dublin,Stockhlom,Marseille,Toronto,Miami,Los Angeles,Sao Paulo.
Mobile phone networks(MTC Namibia) powered by wind and solar energy in Namibia.[BBC]
Ethiopia signs licensing agreement with Starbucks[:Nasdaq:SBUX ].[Yaleglobal]
Bluetooth used as a flirting tool in Egypt,Africa.[Telegraph]
To harvest rainwater in eastern Africa, to build a business using mobile technologies for health diagnosis in Nigeria, to produce low-cost charcoal using sugar cane waste instead of timber,soon to become a reality through Legatum graduates[ Guardian]
Algers-
Macro-economic facts[some]:
Foreign reserves 120 billion USD
Unemployement 12%
Mobile-cellphone market customer base 28 million
Algerians are enjoying greater calm and better prospects.[Economist]
Illinois-
US election candidate ,Barack Obama's campaign staff make an intelligent use of the internet and Web 2.0. Fight the Smears is PR campaign on steroids.
Monrovia-
A war flick about Liberian child soldiers made with boys and girls who used to be active participant in that country's recent war, Johnny Mad Dog allow us to witness "the death dealers," roaming the roads and bushes of their country, spreading machine-gun terror and death - to men, women and other children in the name of revolution.
The movie is an adaptation of the previously released novel, purchase it here
Kampala-
APPFRICA( July 31st] is a series of international tech conferences and think-tanks aimed at bringing together researchers, industry leaders, businesses to discuss novel uses of web technology for innovation and education in the developing world.
The Background:
-four key drivers for successful knowledge economies in the 21st Century are education, information technology infrastructure, research and development focused on innovation and and free market based economies.
-Kenya is hosting it’s first BarCamp for Developers in Nairobi soon to be followed by followups in Uganda and Mauritius, Google recently opened an East Africa presence in Uganda, there’s also a number of African ISPs and Mobile Carriers that are creating jobs for developers there.
Topics include but not limited to
* How the Web is Creating New Opportunities for the Developing World
* Why Western companies are Interested in the African IT Community
* The Semantic Web and The Opportunities it Will Create for a World Marketplace
* Why Intellectual Property is Africa's Most Untapped Resource
* Using Indigenous Resources to Benefit Local Economies
* Web Applications and Mashups That Show Real Potential for Social Change
* The End of Language Barriers? Translation Tools for Education and Business
The above book is about a Rwanda whose people are "bubbling with a sense of unlimited possibility." Kagame’s goal, modeled on the successes of "Asian tigers" like Singapore, aims to transform Rwanda into the continent’s first middle-income country in a single generation.
Purchase it on Amazon US[Nasdaq:AMZN]
Amazon Germany
Amazon China
Amazon Canada
Amazon UK
Amazon France
Nairobi-
Influenced by Daft Punk,Citizen Cope, Raphael Saadiq, Lupe Fiasco, John Mayer, Jamiroquai, St. Germaine, Van Hunt,Foreign Exchange,Timbaland,the White Stripes,the Neptunes ,Bob Sinclair, Asa and Björk.The Kenyan trio Justaband, is as illumanting,bionic,spacey and multiform as their influences are.Check them out
Apple is going after the emerging markets of Africa where 70 million new subscribers were added to the existing pool of 200+ million.The African indutry commitment, to invest over 50 billion USD in the next five years in order to improve infrastructure,coverage and , is certainly a strong signal not ignored by Apple[Nasdaq:AAPL;Lse:OHDZ;Fwb:APC].
Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, and South Africa.
Orange[Euronext:FTE;Nyse:FTE ] will be the official carrier for the following markets: Madagascar,Guinea Bissau,Egypt,Republic Centrafricaine,Cameroon,Botswana,Senegal,Mali,Mauritius,Kenya,Reunion.
Vodafone[Lse:VOD;Nyse:VOD;FWB:VOD] will be the official carrier in Egypt
Via WAfrican
Afrigarnics is a exporter fruit and vegetables company constantly searching for the very best top-quality fruits and vegetables Africa has to offer.
Product line include:
Aubergine
Chillies
Baby Corn
Mango
Passion fruit
Okra
Avocado
Karela
Via TChronicles
Nairobi-
Shares in Safaricom rose 50 per cent on the first day of trading....In the first 20 minutes of trading, the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) had transacted business worth Sh1 billion, in what is now a historical breakthrough...the security had been priced at a discount to give it the first day “pop-up” in price that would satisfy local investors 860,000 of whom drove up the subscription levels to Sh200 billion[3,152,088,258.39 USD as of 08/06/08*] while the Treasury only needed sh50 billion. Some investors are currently waiting for over Sh150 billion[2,363,923,843.99 USD] in refunds from the money the government left on the table.
The stock was also highly attractive to non-local investors as it attracted Sh76 billion[1,196,940,294.92 USD as of 08/06/08] from foreign investors [BDAfrica]
Core Network Support Engineer
Expires: 16th June 2008
Retail Centre Supervisor
Expires: 15th June 2008
Cash Stock Supervisor
Expires: 15th June 2008
Retail Cashier
Expires: 15th June 2008
Retail Centre Agent
Expires: 15th June 2008
Stock Controller
Expires: 15th June 2008
Purchasing Manager
Expires: 13th June 2008
Principal Supply Analyst
Expires: 13th June 2008
Area Sales Manager
Expires: 13th June 2008
Abidjan-
La Joie de Lire is a litterature focused event[27,28,29 of June] created and produced by Nadine Tchaptchet Kouamouo. The intend behind the cultural production is to build the desire to read into young men and women of the Ivory Coast.As we know a mind well fed is a mind that knows no limits, no fears or at least understand and overcome them.
Official Blog
Barcamp Nairobi '08 is an unconference made up of of technical professionals, Internet enthusiasts, bloggers, designers and other clever people in the Nairobi area who wish to share and learn in an open environment.
Attendees don't just watch a set list of speakers. They give their own talks. Podcasting. Web standards. Microformats. Gum stick computers. Physical security. Robotics. Evolutionary algorithms. It can be anything. This event is not just for stuffy developer types -
Luanda-
-Por Por Akwaaba Welcome! Car Horn Orchestra of Ghana
-Intro: Lafayette Afro Rock Band "Darkest Light" mixed w/Max Roach and Abdullah Ibrahim "Streams of Consciousness" (NY and South Africa)
Intro collage
-African Anarchist Radio
Malcolm X "The Roots of Savagery" mixed w/
Max Roach/Abdullah Ibrahim "Streams of Consciousness" (NY/South Africa)
-Tony Allen "Crazy Afro Beat" w/scratches by Rob Swift Vs Dj Spooky (NY and Nigeria)
-X Plastaz "Msimu kwa msimu" (Tanzania)
-Alif "Douta Mbaye"(Senegal)
-K'naan "Soobax" (Somalia)
-Kelis "Trick Me" (dancehall mix) (USA)
-Fela "Kalakuta Show" (Mix Master Mike, Lateef and The Gift of Gab Remix) (Nigeria)
-Lotfi Double Kanon "Bled Miki" (Tunisia)
-MC Solaar featuring Ron Carter "Un Ange En Danger" (France/Senegal)
-Akon "Locked Up" mixed w/ Nelson Mandela "Moments in Black History (Brad Sanders)" (NY/Senegal/South Africa)
-Angola National Anthem - "Angola, avante!" Author: Manuel Rui Alves Monteiro (b.1941); Composer: Rui Alberto Vieira Dias Mingao
Mixed w/Malcolm X "The Root of Civilization"
-Dj Spooky featuring Tapper Zukie "Revolution Dub" (NY/Jamaica)
Frederic Galliano featuring Pancha Angola: Kuduru Sound System
-Frederic Galliano featuring Pinta Tirru "Entra No Roda" (Angola/France)
-Bunny Lee Meets King Tubby "African Roots and Reggae" - (Jamaica)
-Cesoria Evora - Angola (original + Carl Craig remix) -Dj Spooky remix (Cape Verde Islands/Detroit/NY)
-David Byrne and Brian Eno "My Life in The Bush of Ghosts: Vocal Outtakes" (New York/London)
-Fela "Zombie" (Nigeria) (remix)
-King Britt "Obafunke Theme" (Philadelphia) mixed w/
Interlude Idi Amin speaks (Uganda)
-Orson Welles "Citizen Kane" (L.A.)
-President Obasanjo mixed w/"Move" by J Dilla (Detroit)
-Ryuichi Sakamoto "Riot in Lagos" mixed w/ Nigerian National Anthem (Japan/Nigeria)
-Baka Forest People of South East Cameroon - Water Drums (Cameroon) mixed w/
-Foday Musa Suso "World Wide Funk" (DJ Spooky remix) (Gambia)
-Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Talvin Singh "You Can Find the Feeling" mixed w/ Abdul- Nasser "Independence Forever" (Morocco/Egypt/India)
-Duke Ellington "Afro-Euraasian Eclipse" (NY)
-Oum Kalthoum "Hob Eih" (Egypt) - Dj Spooky remix
Mixed w/Tectonic "Heat Sensor"
-Charlie Dark "Afro Dreaming"(UK-Ghana)
-The Monks of Keur Moussa "Nous Te Louons, Pere Invisible" (Senegal)
-Ginger Baker/Tony Allen (UK/Nigeria) - drum solo mixed w/
Drexciya "Polymono Plexusgel" (Detroit)
-Zimbabwe Legit "Shadows Legit Mix" Dj Shadow remix (Zimbabwe/San Francisco)
-Soweto Gospel Choir "Rivers of Babylon" (South Africa)
-Konono No1 "Kule Kule" (Congo)
-Abdullah Ibrahim "Mindif" (Dj Spooky remix) (South Africa/NY)
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Dj Spooky
New York-
Zachary's Smile White Label is a line the store launched late last year, and the new printed dresses are made from fabric exclusively from the Ivory Coast [Fader Magazine]
Lusaka-
Video obtained via TChronicles
Cervical cancer background info here.
Image via WikipediaBrooklyn-
Corporate takeover:
Last month... hip-hop mogul Shawn Carter finalized the corporate takeover of Jay-Z Inc... Jay-Z Inc. represents the business ventures built around Jay-Z the hip-hop star. What began with rapping, soon grew to include Rocafella records, Rocawear, and a host of endorsement deals and joint ventures...[Over the years, Carter has successfully used Jay-Z’s influence as a hip-hop star to build a franchise of businesses that capitalize on the rapper’s popularity]...In fact, it was recognizing that influence early on in his career that ultimately lead to the creation of the Rocawear urban-apparel brand.
Last month deal:
To acquire Jay-Z, Live Nation[Nyse:LYV] ponied up a pay package worth $150 million—It’s highest to date. The terms of the deal include $5 million a year for five years to cover overhead for Roc Nation, plus $25 million for any investments or acquisitions. Carter will also receive an initial payment and general advance totaling $50 million, $10 million an album for a minimum of 3 albums, and $20 million for some licensing and publishing rights
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Gaborone-
k-Mobic is your mobile companion that gives you anything on your phone. Mobile Social Networking, News headlines, Sports Updates, Weather and many more.
The markets covered by K-Mobik include Nigeria,South Africa, England,Spain,Bostwana,Germany,France,India and Brasil.
New York-
JP Morgan Asset Management, a division of JP Morgan Chase [Nyse:JPM ] is highly interested in the financial markets and products of the following viable and rewarding markets, Egypt,Nigeria,South Africa, Tanzania,Zambia,Ghana,Kenya and Botswana.
The leader in global financial service[1.6 trillion USD in assets] raised a total of 250 million USD that will fund their entry in these very profitable but still foreign markets(to them).
Political and other social hiccups in Africa do not seem to be much deterrents to them, they are said not not to cares so much about what is happening politically as long as companies have good foundation as businesses. [BDAfrica]
Editor's note: The BRVM should have been included on their list,maybe it is because Ivory Coast is a francophone economy. Notice that all the above countries listed are English-speaking nations or have English as a official or unofficial 2nd language.
