YouTube is officially launching a localized version of the popular video site in South Africa. This custom site will provide South Africans a unique view of the largest video sharing site in the world by …

Cheetah Blog Commentary: Though very pro-Kagame, Michael is hitting the nail on the head. The misunderstanding of the continent and mostly Afro-pessimism are the main causes of the current status quo in many countries. It …

Just a Band’s music video (or, more accurately, short film set to music) is a pastiche of blaxploitation like Shaft, crime-centric American film ranging from Tarantino to the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage,” and a …

Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil …

Celebrities like Mia Farrow and George Clooney may have done more to prolong the suffering of Darfur than resolve the crisis in Sudan’s war-torn region, a new book argues.
“The Save Darfur movement with its celebrity …

2/4/2010 – There are many challenges to doing business in Africa, but Joseph Nyagah thinks the biggest obstacle is the way the rest of the world sees the continent.
“You must change the way you perceive …

Africapractice provides strategic communications, corporate citizenship and environmental consulting services, delivered from regional hub offices across Africa and a coordinating office in London. WThey have a vision – ‘a thriving African private sector driving socio-economic …

The programme is part of Zain’s corporate social responsibility efforts targeting education and represents just an extension of Zain’s corporate commitment to “A Wonderful World” for their customers.
The questions in this fast-paced quiz programme cover …

The BBC World News will be hosting a new series, Africa Business Report, to focus on business on the continent. The programme, plans to focus on business in Africa, examining the people, businesses and products …

Mark Graham is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and blogs at zerogeography.blogspot.com
He came up with a map that displays the total number of Wikipedia articles tagged to each country. Interestingly, “almost the …