409 If You Like This Article Kindly Give Us A Share! Accra Fashion Week 2023 made waves across the African continent, featuring designers from over 15 countries. The event, hosted at the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum from the 13th to the 17th of December 2023, marked another historical milestone with extraordinary fashion designers showcasing their A-game. These talented creatives explored various styles, including fancy resort wear, swimwear, winter fashion, casual, smart wear, and office attire. Notably, some designers stood out with their stylish winter jackets, becoming the focal point of attention for many Accra Fashion Week guests. Several brands have already…
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How could AI help Africa? There are several African countries that are beginning to have a dedicated strategy for artificial intelligence. However, there is a pan-African strategy that will soon be published, with a continental vision of AI development. More and more, young people launching startups are interested in this, and they have a real thirst for knowledge in the field of AI. This growing interest can be accelerated with international help. However, there is a wall in some areas, and AI can in fact be used to solve certain problems, including in agriculture. In the health sector, AI could…
There are at least 30 Premier League players heading to the Africa Cup of Nations in the Ivory Coast.[ MORE: AFCON schedule, groups, dates ]Plenty of superstars will not be in Premier League action during January and early February with Mohamed Salah, Andre Onana, Mohammed Kudus and plenty of other key figures representing their nations as they aim to be crowned champions of Africa. The tournament runs from January 13 until February 11. Below we have a list of every single Premier League player called up to represent their nation in the tournament. Which Premier League players are at the…
Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy, and people advising trillions of institutional assets, shared asset allocation assumptions at the COP28 Africa Investment Earthshot Leaders’ Summit, hosted by the COP28 Presidency, in association with The African Union Development Agency (AUDA), The AU Continental Business Network (CBN), Africa Investor (Ai) Group, and The Energy Nexus Network (TENN). The COP28 Africa Investment Earthshot Leaders’ Summit builds on the Africa Climate Summit and the African Union’s 5% Infrastructure Investment Allocation Agenda (The 5% Agenda) to establish African green industrial infrastructure…
In the next four years, British entrepreneur Mansoor Hamayun expects to connect 36 million people to an electricity source, many for the first time. It is an ambition that would see his clean energy company, Bboxx, expand its reach tenfold across sub-Saharan Africa.The London-headquartered company has grown from an idealistic startup with hopes of transforming the lives of African households to a company offering pay-as-you-go solar power, batteries, smartphones and electric motorbikes to about 3.6 million people across Africa in little more than a decade. Now, a $100m (£78m) investment from EnerTech, a Kuwait-based investor, is about to spur its…
AD Ports Group has signed a definitive concession agreement with the Red Sea Ports Authority (RSPA) for the development and operation of a multi-purpose terminal at Safaga Sea Port. AD Ports As informed, the Safaga Port definitive agreement was signed at the Egyptian Cabinet headquarters in Cairo. The agreement is sanctioned under the Law on the Granting of Commitment Contract issued on November 1. This collaboration will see an investment of $200 million over 3 years, aimed at developing “a state-of-the-art facility” within the strategic location of the Red Sea and will be the first internationally operated port serving the Upper…
At a small fashion studio in Lagos, the designers and tailors are busy cutting clean lines through the swathes of fabric. “Cotton T-shirts were the first item we produced,” says designer Oroma Cookey-Gam, co-founder of This is Us, which makes contemporary Nigerian designs, from oversized shirts to jumpsuits and kaftans, using locally produced cotton.To source the cotton, Cookey-Gam makes a monthly trip to Funtua textile mill, a factory in Katsina in the north, which is one of the few mills fully operational in the country. She then makes the three-hour journey to the Kofar Mata dye pit in Kano, the…
Frank Onyeka believes his Premier League side Brentford will cope without him as he get set to feature at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Côte d’Ivoire. Onyeka was included in head coach Jose Peseiro’s final 25-man squad for this year’s tournament. The 25-year-old’s inclusion means he will miss weeks of action for Brentford who lost their last five games. However, he believes Brentford have the squad depth to go on without him. “It’s not going to be easy. But I know the team – they are strong,” Onyeka told the BBC. “When someone leaves, another person is…
W hat’s a well-spent holiday without some good fashion ordeals? The shiny sequins you bought mid-year can finally be put to good use. And as cliche as sequins might sound for the holidays, there’s no festive New Year’s Eve party without flaunting some shimmers. The traditional route to fashion––although safe––could easily become a bore. This includes whimsical sweater layering, the color red sprinkled on everything, and an overall fun twist to even conventional fashion renderings. Before the rudimentary office blazer reemerges or the WFH sweatpants come back into play, have a little fun with some playful but classy New Year’s…
As is often the case with important books, it is difficult to read Parisa Vaziri’s book, Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive (Minnesota Press, 2024). In her first book, the scholar in Comparative Literature at Cornell University takes a deep dive and up-close look at blackness in Iranian cultural production: from the Iranian commercial films of the 1950s and 1970s known as fīlmfārsī, to the filmic siyāh bāzī performances—that is Persian blackface cinema—and the documentation of zār through Iranian ethnographic films from the late 1960s, which she argues, “capture and repress zār’s historical relation to African captivity”…