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The many faces of Africa around the world remains largely unheralded, unknown and at times, mythical. Weekly, our editors identify various subjects about Africa and unpack them for you.
A segment of the global consumer market most often overlooked by both corporate and private marketers/ agencies is the multi-billion dollar (USD) Pan African market.
Step aside Nigerian Americans! The Indians are here! And they are here to stay. The narrative today is that Nigerian immigrants no longer occupy the enviable position of being the most successful and/or the most educated group of immigrants in the United States of America. According to available official statistics, and as at 2015, approximately 376,000 Nigerian immigrants and their families live in the United States of America.
A powerful new book on Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has just been published. Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is at once a double biography of South Africa’s two famous liberation leaders and a historical love story about their personal lives. Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years during apartheid and went on to become the country’s first democratic president.
It will be interesting to see if something something substantial, in the long run, will come out of a new venture to empower African enterprises. This comes in the form of Deal Source Africa, a comprehensive programme to connect African businesses with investors and transaction advisors and African Impact Funds with investors.
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A powerful new book about the fairy-tale love story between arguably two of the most celebrated couple in all of South African history has just hit the bookstores. ‘Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage’ has been described as a double biography of the power couple – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. CLICK HERE TO READ about it all in a Q&A session with the author.
