According to her website, the Kenyan beauty, Victoria Kimani was born in Los Angeles. She started writing, recording and performing at 16. She lived in Nigeria during her high school years and moved back to Nairobi, Kenya at 17. Victoria is now signed to Nigeria’s Chocolate City Group, home of superstars Ice Prince and MI. [...]
Kenyan artist Avril is known to many around the world as Miss B’have from MTV’s drama Shuga: Love, Sex, Money. What do you think of Kitu Kimoja?
Forbes magazine has been around as a leader in business and financial news for a long time, in 2011 Forbes Africa launched. The magazine created the Person of the Year Award which is given to an individual who has had major influence over events of the preceding year. Readers make nominations and a final shortlist [...]
At a glance you may think Sophie Umazi is just one very proud Kenyan. If you look more closely however, you will see that her ‘I Am Kenyan’ initiative goes far beyond just patriotism. In 2007, the results of Kenya’s controversial presidential election sparked violence across the country. According to Sophie the ethinicizing of politics [...]
A large number of Africans are not part of the formal banking sector. Unstable income, high transaction costs or simply distance impede many from accessing financial services. People rely on physical transfers of money, it is not uncommon for people to travel great distances to make relatively small transactions or for city dwelling breadwinners to [...]
AKA (South Africa)- Jealousy The brand new single from South Africa’s best selling Hip Hop artist. The multi award winning artists solidifies his place as Hip Hop royalty with this highly anticipated, star studded video. The funky beat is perfect for your Spring playlists! Camp Mulla (Kenya)- Fresh This group from Nairobi, Kenya was recently [...]
Here are a few songs to get you in a celebratory mood! Happy Africa Day! Leave a comment and tell us what songs you definitely have to hear today. “Chop My Money” – P Square ft. Akon & May D [Nigeria] “Africa” – Salif Keita [Mali] “Party Don’t Stop” – Camp Mulla [Kenya] “Tswa Daar”- [...]
The Caine Prize for African Writing is one of the most prestigious literary awards for African authors. It is named after the late Sir Michael Caine who intended that the award be, ”open to writers from anywhere in Africa for work published in English. Its focus is on the short story, as reflecting the contemporary development of the [...]
Kenyan Environmentalist and Human Rights activist, Wangari Maathai, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She was the first African woman to receive this prize but her work started long before 2004. Born in 1940, Professor Maathai was educated at a school run by Italian nuns before going to the United States of America [...]
Kenyan author, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o describes this book as “a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in the teaching of literature.” A critical look at the state of African languages and the lasting effects of [...]