IE Africa Day 2017 Madrid!

IE Africa Day 2017 Madrid!

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 […]

Cambridge Africa Together Conference 2017

Cambridge Africa Together Conference 2017

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 […]

Highlights from the LSE Africa Summit 2017: Built for Africa – African Solutions to African Issues

Highlights from the LSE Africa Summit 2017: Built for Africa – African Solutions to African Issues

[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, […]

Applying African Proverbs to the World: Proverbial Africa – Oxford BFA 2017

Applying African Proverbs to the World: Proverbial Africa – Oxford BFA 2017

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), […]

Using Exponential Technology to Solve Africa’s Problems

Using Exponential Technology to Solve Africa’s Problems

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 […]

MIT Sloan Presents Africa Innovate Conference 2017

MIT Sloan Presents Africa Innovate Conference 2017

How can innovative and promising ideas take root and transform into sustainable and impactful businesses in Africa? This is the central question of the 2017 Africa Innovate Conference held by MIT Sloan Africa Business Club on April 8th 2017. This year’s panels will follow the African entrepreneurship process: starting with an exploration of the origins of sound business ideas to […]

Calling All Africa-Focused Entrepreneurs to the Oxford Africa Conference 2017

Calling All Africa-Focused Entrepreneurs to the Oxford Africa Conference 2017

The Oxford Africa Conference 2017 is inviting talented entrepreneurs from across the globe, whose work focuses on Africa, to participate in their annual Innovation Fair. Are you an entrepreneur working on Africa-focused social impact projects? Do you have an innovative solution that addresses a pressing problem in Africa? If selected, entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to network with other founders, explore […]