Proprietor of the Le Grand Dakar restaurant Chef Pierre Thiam, has published a book which celebrates the cosmopolitan cuisine of westernmost tip of the continent -Yolele! Recipes From the Heart of Senegal:
The recipes in this book reflect my personal odyssey,my travels through West Africa,Europe and finally here,where from my New York address I've seen the world. They showcase the repertoire of...
The Cisco Networking Academy in Kenya, one of the largest education initiatives, has empowered students with IT skills in hopes of creating a better standard of living in some of the poorest cities-company websiteWatch related video......
White African reports:Jon Gossier and Paul Engulu of Appfrica has just launched Afridex, an index of African tech startups. Anyone can submit their website or mobile application and be added to the index...If you click on any company’s name, you will be taken to the detail page on them. On that page you will find a bunch of publicly available information, including everything from contact...
TEE ESS Fish Farms "operates two hatcheries, with production capacity of 100,000...This is supported by 12 nursery ponds of varying sizes and a total of 28 grow-out ponds with an average size of 2 meters by 6 meters stocking about 100 fish per cubic meter."-company website.
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Consumer General Electric is undertaking the construction of a 100 Megawatt Independent Power Plant (IPP) in the Ikorodu local government area of Lagos State. The project will help reduce the shortfall and meet the ever growing demand of power supply in Nigeria-company...
Korlyns Pharmaceuticals expands to Ghana and Liberia.
An overview of the swashbucking Exotix investment house-Mens Vogue
Mobile labs for the mathematically inclined.-Engineering News
EPS couriers joins the burgeoning package delivery industry.
A study on indigenous "Twsana Pig" production and...
Daproim, founded by Steve Muthee is a socially responsible outsourcing company. The firm was named as the service provider for a book validation project with Bookshare.This contract was brokered by Samasource covered...
South Africa's National Health Laboratory Services in investigates the feasibility of using UAV's as Medic Air couriers in The E-Juba project:
...it has been shown by NHLS that the technology exists to use UAVs as transport couriers delivering samples from remote clinics to NHLS laboratories. For this to become a practical enterprise, however, demands more than just having the requisite...
In an interview with the Cheetah Index, founder of Accents Telecom Douglas Kimani, outlines services offered by the company:
Accents uses technology for the customers' convenience. An example is their pin less calling cards whereby the Accents system recognizes their customers telephone numbers whenever they call from the number on their profile and automatically knows which account to make...
White African profiles Pamoja a new Advertising network:
Started by Joshua Wanyama (of AfricanPath) and Benin Mwangi (of Cheetah Index), it’s an ad network created to serve advertisers trying looking for a one-stop-shop for publishers in Africa, or that reach Africans in the diaspora...[continue...
"...Babawatoto is an e-commerce company that allows the Kenyan Diaspora to meet the needs of their family at home without the need for money transfer services. Kenyans abroad can pay school fees, provide vouchers for shopping or home utilities, buy stocks, or transfer mobile airtime directly through the Internet...We have a very efficient network set up and compared to the rest of our...
"...T-Mortgage serves the needs of the growing residential property market by delivering customer focused, streamlined processes designed to make home buying as convenient and easy as getting a cell phone. Charles Inyangete, T-Mortgage Chief Executive Officer commented, "Over the past several years it has become apparent to me that the home ownership market in Tanzania is under served. The...
Iroko Securities which arranged the first corporate issuance of a USD denominated bond in sub-Saharan Africa "...provides capital to a broad range of sovereign, quasi-sovereign local corporate and financial institutions based in Africa. It offers investment services to international investors seeking to gain exposure on African credits..."-company...
"...MapNTL is an online mapping and location-based services that delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where's my nearest?") searches to more businesses and consumers than any other supplier in Nigeria..."-Company...
Reuters profiles Nigeria's largest insurance group,Industrial and General Insurance (IGI):
The company plans a $2 billion expansion drive in Africa, the company's chief executive officer told Reuters.Three years ago, the insurance firm began expanding out of Nigeria, initially investing in Ghana, Gambia and Uganda.
"Originally we set aside $200 million of our own funds but we see this attracting...
Fusion Capital offers SME focused financial solutions.
Derrick Ashong launches Ashong Ventures.
The Economist applauds Endeavor's success in spreading the gospel of entrepreneurship.
CopperNet leads in the provision of information technology services.
Founded by Baba Jibrin Adamu, Inetworks Canada believes strongly in the provision of low-cost communications and...
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A review of Mourou Outta's Farah Olivia Restaurant:
The crossing of French, American, and African cooking makes for offbeat flavors and textures that often soar. And the chocolate brown space with striking white "branches" on the walls and a giraffe motif behind the bar are just as stunning. Shocked tuna with red wine and spicy peach accompaniments and pork with tandoori pork rinds are the sort...
mPedigree co-founded by Bright Simons emerges as tool to fight the deadly scourge of drug counterfeiting and other product reliabilty challenges: ...It refers both to a world-first technology platform that interconnects GSM mobile networks in the West African republic of Ghana to a central registry wherein pedigree information of product brands belonging to participant manufacturers are stored,...
Storm Media Group founded by Obi Asika is a multimedia,film production and broadcast facilitation company. The groups components include:
-StormInteractive
-IBST Media
-Storm Records
Read related LadyBrille interview with Obi Asika...
From the PSD Blog:
Business Partners specializes in providing small businesses with risk capital,and at reaching large numbers of small companies. Over the past few years BPI has provided thousands of SMEs with equity, quasi-equity and - crucially - hands-on advice.
One of the key products which BPI offers is the so-called "royalty loans" whereby the entrepreneur is provided with a low interest...
Ft gives an overview on the"rapid growth of private equity" in Africa. via Africaincorp
Ladybrille covers Nollywood and more in their latest issue.
Nubian Cheetah takes a look at ExZeed a BPO provider
African Architecture & Design highlights the bamboo construction...
The newly launched Emergent African Land fund will focus on South Africa Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Swaziland and the DRC.
Hilrose Consulting an executive search firm founded by Ngozi Emafo seeks diaspora candidates looking for positions in Africa.
Motopower launches sun powered cellphone kiosks for Ugandan women.
Kenya Biodiesel association promotes Jatropha as an alternate...
Kathryn Tully at Yahoo News reports on Root Capital & the importance of SME's
Microfinance may have captured the imagination of social investors but even microfinance fund managers accept that it can play only one part in social and economic development. Providing banking services to those SMEs in the "missing middle" is crucial because, while a microloan can support one street vendor or one...
Bloomberg reports:
African markets are ``extremely untapped and have huge potential to grow,'' said Nicolas Clavel, London-based chief investment officer at Scipion Capital, a hedge fund manager with $100 million in emerging-market assets that bought shares in Safaricom's IPO. ``Investors are realizing they need to move into these markets before they miss the most rapid growth phase.''...
Microcapital reports on the establishment of UBA Microfinance which:
Will target a client base that encompasses micro and small enterprises and family and rural business, with an emphasis on businesses owned by women. UBA Microfinance hopes to provide services which include micro lending, micro investment, micro deposits and small business advisory. Elumelu says that UBA will operate “the new...
Sean Park discusses opportunity at the Park Paradigm:
In a nutshell, it really comes down to the power of looking at the industry from a completely different perspective: understanding how markets and financial services can be made to work in the context of sub-saharan Africa, necessarily forces you to see the industry through a radically different prism: infrastructure, distribution, price...
From the AECF website:
The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) is a US$50-100m private sector fund, backed by some of the biggest names in development finance and hosted by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Our aim is to encourage private sector companies to compete for like-for-like investment support for their new and innovative business ideas.
How does it work?The AECF...
Mugure Mugo founder of Preciss International covered earlier speaks with Manuel de Joya of Eventive about their Ethiopian outsourcing initiative.Answering a question about the continents positioning in this industry he states:
Africa's expertise in various European languages is a singular advantage. The Francophone nations seem to be particularly poised for success.
However, having said that,...
The founder of Kerawa discusses the company with Africaincorp:
The company is taking on the larger Newspaper companies,the community portals and the offline social/tribal networks, that have traditionally controlled the classified ad market.Information on Job,Romance,trade,service opportunities have been often limited to your access to the newspaper[financial/geographical],or a specific...
An Information Value chain consultancy founded by Adedoyin Odunfa, Digital Jewels offers a number services. These include:
-Information Security
-Certification
-Perfomance...