The swivelBOX Academy provides an innovative combination of online and offline learning in STEM and entrepreneurship, which has been specifically developed for 14 – 18 year olds in East Africa. Their mission is to nurture young East African talent and provide them with the necessary networks, entrepreneurial and tech-centric skills to thrive on both the domestic and international scale. SwivelBOX is now partnering […]
In the summer of 2013 and 2014, Caleb spent 2 weeks working alongside the COO and CFO at one of Nigeria’s largest retail banks. He learned several vital lessons that he believed every individual wishing to undertake an internship, especially in Africa, should know. 1 – Plan Your Schedule Ahead of Time – It makes all the difference Planning ahead […]
In the words of Donald Kaberuku, 7th President of the African Development bank, “an amazing group of youthful Africans and Africanists… committed to Africa’s cause” gathered at the Oxford Africa Conference to listen to, and participate in conversations which questioned the lens through which Africa has been viewed. The Oxford Africa Conference 2017 took place on 20th May, and delivered on its promise […]
Africa Day 2017 Digital disruption is unlocking Africa’s economic potential, creating new opportunities and steering a silent revolution from over-dependency on natural resources towards a technology driven economy. With Africa’s demographic advantage, how can stakeholders capitalize on the new wave of digital innovation to transform the continent? Can Africa take the lead in the digital space? These and more far-reaching […]
Africa Together Conference 2017 The African Society of Cambridge University (ASCU) is proud to announce the fourth annual ‘Africa Together’ conference to be held on Saturday, 10th June 2017. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘Africa and a World in Transition’, and will be held at the Cambridge Union Building, University of Cambridge. What is it? ‘Africa Together’ is […]
Upon hearing about Made in Africa, the LBS Africa Business Summit 2017, I knew this would be a great opportunity as a newbie entrepreneur of a new fashion and tech start-up to learn, network and get exposure to great and like-minded people, so I was not disappointed. Africa, or as I like to refer to it “The Sleeping Giant”, is waking […]
With a theme of ‘Ideas to Impact’ you would be forgiven for assuming that MIT Sloan’s Africa Innovate Conference, held on 7-8th April, 2017, was simply another opportunity for smart people to talk Africa and do little. Far from it. In true MIT fashion, this conference provided not only insights and inspiration with key notes from the likes of Her […]
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PL3wVstrIXeqbyFZUerX9OrZ9MXRYfBgWf&v=wkFYrRa02dM[/embedyt]There are very few things I would wake up on a Saturday morning for, but when COO of Movemeback Oyin Solebo told me about this year’s theme at the LSE Africa Summit 2017 – ‘Built for Africa: African Solutions to African Issues’, and asked me to help out as a Movemeback Ambassador, I knew I had to attend. Themes of the Day Corruption, […]
Oxford’s annual Business Forum Africa (Oxford BFA) applied Africa’s own wisdom to the development and growth being experienced today. Through the use of proverbs with which many of us (African and not) have grown up, Oxford BFA reframed the conversations we have about the Continent. Oxford BFA featured keynote insights from the likes of Dr Mo Ibrahim, Khanyi Dhlomo (Ndalo Media), James Mwangi (Dalberg), […]
Singularity University (SU), a global community using exponential technologies to tackle the world’s biggest challenges and build an abundant future for all, has announced a new partnership with Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) to launch a SingularityU Global Impact Challenge in West Africa. The purpose of the SingularityU West Africa Global Impact Challenge is to foster moonshot innovations and […]