Tech
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Nigeria: Young Leaders Pledge to Advocate for Education via #1Million Gift of Literacy Campaign
Aug 27, 2015AYECI Africa, a non-profit organisation in Nigeria seeking to expand access to education and employment opportunities for undeserved women and young people have assigned Cool FM’s OAP Rosemary Ajuka and Digital Media Sensation, Kenneth Kolo Kadiri... -
Nigeria Needs More E-Commerce Websites
Aug 11, 2015Following concerns from various quarters about the perceived saturated nature of the e-commerce sector of the Nigeria economy and in view of the ongoing profit boom in the sector, the Managing Director of Supermart.ng, Raphael Afaedor... -
Zimbabwe To Host UNESCO Africa Engineering Week
Aug 11, 2015By Wallace Mawire The Engineering Council of Zimbabwe (ECZ) has won the bid to host the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Engineering week and World Council of Civil Engineers (WCCE) General Assembly to... -
How Being Tech Savvy Is Altering Our Culture In Nigeria
Aug 10, 2015Last month, I urgently needed a book from Laterna, a bookstore in Lagos. In the past, I would have gone to their website and placed an order. But that would have meant them calling me to... -
Rural Reporters Weekly Top Pick: 5 Things You Missed
Aug 3, 2015Happy new month! Every week, Rural Reporters curates a report on development in rural Africa and its environs. The reports included are some of our top picks of recent must-read research, interviews, reports, blogs and in-depth articles... -
IN NIGERIA, CITIZENS USE TRACKA TO MONITOR PROJECTS
Jul 3, 2015Nigerians now breathe a sigh of relief as the end to era of project abandonment and syphoning of funds meant for rural and developmental projects are over. This is coming in line with the berth of... -
Top Pick: Rural Africa Weekly Report
Jun 8, 2015It’s the beginning of a new week and as part of our tradition, Rural Reporters collates a weekly report on development in rural Africa and its environs. The reports include are some of our top picks... -
Rural Reporters Top Weekly Report: Trends in Rural Africa
Jun 1, 2015It’s the beginning of a new week and as part of our tradition, Rural Reporters collates a weekly report on development in rural Africa and its environs. The reports include are some of our top picks... -
How Smartphones Galvanized Nigeria’s Younger Voters
May 28, 2015Of the more than 175 million people who live in Nigeria, 70 percent of them are young. And among those millions are more than 125 million mobile phone subscribers, the largest such market in Africa. So,... -
Top Pick On Rural Africa: Trends And Headlines
May 25, 2015“Africanness is not about being born in Africa, it is a mental attitude that can even be adopted by people from European, Chinese or Asian descent.” – Sandile Memela. It’s the beginning of a new week...