The Africa Entrepreneurship Awards, one of the continent’s most prestigious business honours, has for the first time been made open to entries from every country in Africa. The initiative, which until now only allowed entries from fifteen countries across the continent, encourages the much needed development of small and medium enterprises in South Africa and [...]
The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) recently hosted the latest offering in their series of talks entitled 2Ist Century Challenges. The discussion called Digital Technology in Africa took place at the RGS in Kensington on the 18th May, and New Africa Analysis was invited to sit in on the event. The panel consisted of, Nicholas Negroponte [...]
Wole Soyinka, one of the world’s most renowned poets and playwrights, will discuss culture and politics with Southbank Centre’s Artistic Director Jude Kelly OBE in benefit of Collective Artistes Theatre Company. Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Wednesday 1st June 2011 Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall Purcell Room 7.45pm Tickets £15 [...]
Celebrating the work of one of Africa’s leading filmmakers, featuring Cannes prize-winner A Screaming Man In little over a decade, this writer-director from Chad in cenral Africa has become one of the continent’s leading storytelers. A master of quietly political, local fables, Haroun’s films reflect a life lived between two continents. He studied filmmaking in [...]
It can be said, without fear of being contradicted that the public does not fully appreciate the crucial role women play in enhancing food security for households, particularly in developing countries. This could probably be attributed to our total failure to understand the critical importance of the work that women do in agriculture, in spite [...]
Ques: Given the fact that you are seen as a visionary leader how far do you think you have gone to transform public services and the nation as a whole? Ans: Well the object of my Government was to effect changes in the way we do things in the country; the governance and the structure [...]
Hector Reginald Sylvanus Boltman is the last surviving ‘Founding Father’ of Sierra Leone. In 1960 he attended a conference at Lancaster House to determine constitutional changes that would move Sierra Leone away from colonial rule and toward independence. The fateful series of discussions ultimately led to Sierra Leone’s independence exactly one year later. Twenty four [...]
‘I have declared the whole country a works yard…’ said President Koroma at the Open Government Initiative (OGI) session. And it is clear to see that Sierra Leone is currently undergoing major regeneration. The race is on to rid the country of old, unfit road networks and in its place establish a reliable connection throughout [...]
For many outside Sierra Leone, their knowledge of the country is based on the bloody civil war between ‘91 and ‘02, which led to 50,000 deaths and the displacement of two million people. During the war the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) used the country’s diamond resources to fund its campaign, which was based on [...]
The Comic Relief show Rich, Famous and in the slum aired on BBC1 on the 3rd March. It saw four British (for want of a better word) celebrities spend a week living like newly arrived migrants in Africa’s largest slum, Kibera. The slum, on the outskirts of Nairobi, is home to approximately I million people. [...]
