Faith K Releases New Single ‘BOUNCE’ Ahead Of Album
Rising South African R&B/Hip-Hop star, Faith K releases her first offering of the year titled ‘Bounce.’. The track is the first taste and introduction to her upcoming album, Nangena, slated to be released later this month. Bounce is an anthem dedicated to time wasters and Faith smoothly, and quite unbothered tells the clown to get […]
Lami Acquires Kenya’s Bluewave Insurance Agency To Expand Access To Insurance Across Africa
This acquisition aims to drive rapid growth for Lami and expand its presence to new African markets with an expected business growth of 65,000 current policies and potential growth of hundreds of thousands expected in 2022 across Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, Gambia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Lami, Kenya’s insurance technology […]
Visa Everywhere Initiative 2022 Invites Fintech And Payment Startups To Showcase Their Solutions On A Global Stage
Innovative fintech startups across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa are invited to sign up to gain exposure and access to Visa’s network, as well as a total of $45 000 in prize money The Visa Everywhere Initiative (VEI), a global open innovation program is inviting fintech and payment startups to showcase their innovative […]
Life Healthcare Encourages Patients With Compromised Immunity To Register For An Additional Covid-19 Shot
Life Healthcare, a global health care provider and one of South Africa’s leading private hospital groups has encouraged immunocompromised individuals who are fully vaccinated to register for their additional dose of the vaccine, which is not to be confused with a booster shot. “People who are moderately or severely immunocompromised may not have built sufficient […]
Couples Who Save Together Stay Together
Tips for making saving your new love language By Greta Goosen, Head of Customer Experience at MiWay Insurance The month of love is here, and as ever shops are filled with bouquets and chocolates to mark the occasion. Given the financial challenges many of us currently face, 2022 offers an ideal excuse to rethink those […]
How Businesses Can Benefit From A Data-driven Culture
By Lasath Punyadeera – Head, Personalisation, Standard Bank In a world with increased competition and ever-evolving customer expectations, companies are using data now more than ever to make more informed business decisions. This approach to using data has been integrated into almost every industry, with financial services being one of the front-runners. The value of […]
Celebrating Malawi’s Showing in Afcon
A group of Malawians living in the US have given a cash reward to footballers who represented the country in the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) games in Cameroon. This is after the team reached the knock-out phase of the tournament for the first time. The country’s football association said it had received $154,000 from […]
Nigeria’s Resurgent Cinema Culture
In 2010, Lagosian lawyer Zulumoke Oyibo studied the screenwriting book Story by Robert McKee, together with three friends in finance and marketing who shared a passion for writing and cinema. Meeting up frequently to discuss each chapter, the friends soon decided to found Inkblot Productions and try their hands at filmmaking. A web series and […]
Saving Kenya’s National Carrier
Kenya plans to inject $176m of capital into the country’s cash-strapped national airline, which is battling to survive after years of losses and a mounting debt pile. The funding, detailed in supplementary budget documents submitted to parliament, “is dependent on certain restructuring milestones”, Kenya Airways chair Michael Joseph said by text message on Thursday. The […]
Megaproject will Turn East African Country into an Oil Producer for the First Time
Total Energies has approved the development of a multibillion-dollar oil project in east Africa that will require the construction of the world’s longest heated pipeline and make landlocked Uganda an oil producer for the first time. The French energy major and its partners China National Offshore Oil Corporation (Cnooc) and the Uganda National Oil Company […]
