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This is blog is about taking you on journey across the wonderful continent celebrating people, events, achievements across the globe. There is a revolution going on all over the world that we are so quick to embrace and not so forthright when it comes to celebratiing our own. Charity begins at home folks!
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Kory Stamper | Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries | Pantheon Books | March 2017 | 24 minutes (6,691 words)
We’re proud to feature “Hrafnkell,” the first chapter of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, by Kory Stamper. Thanks to Stamper and Pantheon for sharing it with the Longreads community.
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On Falling in Love
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A month earlier, I had applied for a position at Merriam-Webster, America’s oldest dictionary company. The posting was for an editorial assistant, a bottom-of-the-barrel position, but I lit up like a penny arcade when I saw that the primary duty would be to write and edit English…
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Bellafricana is an initiative with a focus on Made-in-Nigeria (Africa) Non-oil products development where customers and suppliers engage and transact to bridge the buyer-seller gap and create a wider outreach for Nigerian (African) products locally & globally.
Micro, small and medium-size businesses nationwide produce a great deal of outstanding products, yet these creative business owners aren’t encouraged to innovate and create more.
Bellafricana has enabled creative businesses a platform to receive the recognition they have long deserved. This Annual African Creative Exhibition and Award (termed Bellafricana ACE Awards) competition endorsed by the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC), Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Nigeria-Britain Association, will hereby offer participants a unique opportunity to showcase their talents and to have their work judged by consumers and experts.
You must agree with us that Nigeria is an import driven nation and if we are looking to diversify and become an export driven nation, it starts from MSMEs. Starting with Nigeria and taking it one African Country at a time.
Bellafricana ACE Awards is an important annual occurrence aimed at attracting an audience that include Captains of Industry, Investors, Upwardly Mobile Youths, Marketers, Trade Delegations & Missions, Procurement Officers, Brand And Business Managers, Art Lovers, Governmental Representatives And Key Decision Makers.
The event is for enterprising Nigerian MSMEs seeking wider access to both internal markets and International markets and investors seeking joint-venture partners. The event is endorsed by Nigeria export Promotion Council, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nigeria – Britain Association, Nigerian – British Chamber of Commerce.
Nominations are kindly on-going and end on 31st March 2017. Follow this link to nominate your favourite entrepreneur here http://event.bellafricana.com/vote/
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Lately Kenyan brands have been partnering with influencers to push their messages to their target audiences. These bloggers, media personalities and sport stars have large social media followings and clout, which allow brands to connect to customers in authentic ways.
Here are some Kenyan brands tapping into influencer marketing.
Blaze by Safaricom
Kenyan mobile telecommunications giant Safaricom’s Blaze platform enables young customers to customise their packages based on how much they want to spend on airtime, data and SMS. To promote the initiative, Safaricom is using artists, entrepreneurs and celebrities that share Blaze-related content on their own social media platforms. These personalities include popular actor Nick Mutuma, entrepreneur Michelle Ntalami (read our profile) and musician King Kaka. Some of them also acted as youth mentors and took part in Blaze events that encouraged the youth to ‘Be Your Own Boss (BYOB)’ that were held in Kenya’s main cities of Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu as well as at leading universities.
Kenya Tourism Board
Through the hash tag #TembeaKenya (‘explore Kenya’ in Swahili), the Kenya Tourism Board is encouraging Kenyans to travel in their own country. The organisation has partnered with bloggers, photographers and media personalities who share images of their travels around the country.
One of the recent campaigns involved Maina Kageni, one of Kenya’s top radio hosts. The Maina Kageni Road Trip Tour travelled throughout the country over a period of at 52 weekends. Kenyans were kept up to date on the trips through the #TembeaKenya hashtag on social media and through Maina’s social media pages.
Guinness
The brand generates content around sports, especially the English Premier League. Consumers are encouraged to drink Guinness and text the number under the bottle cap to win tickets to live matches in the UK. To get its message across, Guinness has partnered with sports and media personalities such as Carol Radull, a renowned radio host and sports fanatic, and Andrew Amonde, captain of the Kenya sevens rugby team.
Recently, the brand has also been working with food blog Kaluhi’s Kitchen to develop recipes that incorporate the drink. Guinness used the blogger’s following to drive sales by giving non-Guinness drinkers a reason to consume the product, albeit in their meals.
Vivo Activewear
Clothing company Vivo Activewear (read our profile) uses media personalities, fashion bloggers and designers to showcase its collections. One of the influencers it works with is Grace Msalame, a former TV presenter, who regularly posts images of herself dressed in Vivo.
In addition, Vivo Activewear has launched ranges designed in cooperation with influencers. For example, the This is Ess Collection for Vivo was a partnership with Kenyan blogger Sharon Mundia, while fashion designer Wambui Kibue has also collaborated with the brand.
Resolution Insurance
Resolution Insurance, a Kenyan health insurance provider, partnered with Janet Mbugua, a popular news anchor, to create an online platform called The journey with Janet. It was launched while Mbugua was expecting her first-born son, and features her writings on various issues related to motherhood. In addition Mbugua also speaks at Resolution Insurance engagements and events, and profiles Resolution’s brand offerings on her personal platforms.
This article was first published on How We Made it in Africa
Happy reading,
Lorna
Africa has so much potential and there is a lot of interest from around the globe with people moving or setting up their companies around the African continent. Here are top 10 tips to help you understand the respective country’s market(s), inform you and guide your market entry approach that will in turn propel you to success.
Happy read and have a fantastic day!
Lorna.
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“We are delighted to announce the finalists for the AFIF Entrepreneurship Award 2017 after a really difficult selection process. The innovation and creativity of African-based SMEs makes our job more difficult every year. We look forward to welcoming these and many more entrepreneurs at the AFIF 2017 in Nairobi” – Inês Bastos, Senior Project Manager at EMRC International and head of AFIF 2017
According to a press publication on APO, applications for the AFIF Entrepreneurship Awards 2017 came from different countries across Africa. The finalists were shortlisted out of 51 projects that were submitted.
The finalists for the AFIF Entrepreneurship Award 2017 are:
The six finalists will receive a free accreditation to join the AFIF 2017 full programme which includes invitation to join conferences, trainings, business meetings and networking opportunities. The winner will be announced at the forum and will receive cash prize and one year national and international media promotion.
The city of Nairobi, Kenya will host the AFIF Forum which will be held from 13-16 February at Strathmore University. The delegates are expected from across the world and the forum’s focus is on entrepreneurship, innovation and access to finance in key sectors such as energy, water, ICT, health and agriculture.
For years now designers have dumbed down their African influence by using words like tribal, wild, and ethnic. Runway shows with a pace set to the beat of bongo drums. (Inserts eye roll.) These stereotypes are even more racist and archaic than the model selection of pale skin adorned with cornrow hairstyles and turbans. This […]
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