Bboxx, a next generation utility company, has secured a US$15mn loan from SBM Bank Kenya to provide access to clean, reliable, and affordable energy to nearly half a million Kenyans through off-grid solar home systems (SHS) The funds will be used by Bboxx Kenya to purchase new inventory including solar home systems. (Image source: Bboxx Kenya) GuarantCo, a part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), has provided a US$11.25mn partial guarantee against the loan facility. Kenya’s electrification rate is estimated at around 70% though there is some disparity between urban (90%) and rural areas (60%). The funds provided to…
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Weddings are arguably one of the events most people look forward to attending. Today, we are talking about Nigerian songs for your wedding. Do you know the songs you pick for your wedding day are very important? In Nigerian Weddings, there are two things wedding guests look out for after the exchange of vows. That is the food and also the Music. To make sure your list of wedding songs is on point, we’ve compiled a list of 10 Nigerian songs for your wedding day. This collection of songs ranges from songs released from different era. Enjoy! Nigerian Songs For…
The best time to see the Great Wildebeest Migration and other wildlife species – The Great Migration is an annual expedition where over 1.5 million wildebeest, thousands of zebra and hundreds of thousands of gazelles mark their legendary journey embarked on circular movement that is approximately 1,800 miles in the long round trek of the drier lands in Tanzania. The Great Migration in the Serengeti is the second largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world and is secured as one of the seven natural wonders in Africa. The best time to see the migration in Serengeti will depend on what…
Deborah Tolu-Kolawole, Abuja Published 25 January 2022 Six Information, Communication and Telecommunications schools are to be built by the Universal Basic Education Commission in the six geo-political zones at N3.6 billion. UBEC is also to build one of such schools in the 36 states, with each set to cost N350 million. The schools which will have the capacity to accommodate a large number of students and ICT infrastructure will be known as UBEC Modern Smart Schools. Groundbreaking for one of the schools was performed by UBEC’s Executive Secretary, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, in Hadeja, Jigawa State, at the weekend. Bobboyi explained…
AiW Guest: Kagiso Nko. It is part of how Joburg narrates itself, in particular to itself. Editors’ Introduction – Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden. AiW note: This review of Anxious Joburg (Wits UP) was completed before our accompanying Review Q&A, published on November 10th. Alongside reviewer Kagiso Nko, researchers, editors and writers Joanna Woods, Katie Reid, and Tinashe Mushakavanhu explored their investments in the book’s project with one of its two editors, Nicky Falkof. References here to Falkof’s responses to Nko’s additional queries in that Q&A have been added and are linked accordingly. Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of…
Carrie Mae Weems: The Shape of Things “Compelling…the visual and historical connections [Weems] makes [are] often insightful, sometimes funny, and occasionally quite direct.”—The New York Times, Critic’s Pick “Powerful…deeply compelling [and] at moments even revelatory.”—VogueCarrie Mae Weems, an artist who has consistently and poignantly addressed the conditions of race in the United States, created a multi-work installation and series of performances titled The Shape of Things. Weems’ unflinching gaze at what she describes as the “pageantry” and “circus-like” quality of contemporary American political life find form in a series of large-scale installations and a cyclorama…
Tunisia 4-0 Mauritania: Wahbi Khazri brace means qualification from AFCON Group F will come down to the final group stage gameFormer Sunderland striker Wahbi Khazri scored a brace in Tunisia’s 4-0 victory Result means just one point separating first from third in AFCON Group FGoals from Hamza Mathlouthi and Seifeddine Jaziri rounded off the scoringDefeat means Mauritania crash out of the competition with no goals scored yetBy Reuters Published: 19:55 EST, 16 January 2022 | Updated: 19:55 EST, 16 January 2022 Hamza Mathlouthi and Wahbi Khazri scored goals inside the opening nine minutes to set up a comfortable 4-0 victory for Tunisia…
With AiW Guests: Emmanuel E. Akanwa and Gil Ndi-Shang. AiW note: The Radio and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Cameroonian writer, Gil Ndi-Shang, recently released with Spears Books. “In The Radio and Other Stories, the scholar and the storyteller converge. The stories stir our emotions even as they prod our intellect. This is a fascinating collection that celebrates the tenacity of memory. In the end, the narrator presents a complex continuum of disparate realities that are made wholesome by his ability to impose a humane melody to the cacophonous inheritance falsely labeled as a postcolonial state. The prose…
Africa needs, and is ready for, nothing short of a new public health order, with systems better able to prepare for and respond to the next health threat. Having engaged in outbreak response, research and capacity development in Africa for decades, it is all too clear to us how weak health systems provide fertile ground for the growth and spread of dangerous pathogens. But also growing during this time is a promising cadre of smart and skilled African health experts. Now a new health order is required to provide the networking and infrastructure for them to apply their talents for…
Published 23 January 2022 Former Super Eagles defender, Daniel Amokachi, and highly-rated Togolese player, Emmanuel Adebayor, have rooted for Nigeria against Tunisia in the forthcoming AFCON match. Amokachi, who is married to a Tunisian woman, said in a viral video that he is rooting for his country. He told the Super Eagles to keep pushing one game at a time. Amokachi, popularly called “the bull” donned the number 14 shirt for the Super Eagles at the 1994 African Cup of Nations, where they emerged winner of the 19th edition of the tournament. “We are soaring to the finals, but one…