Olubunmi Davies is a retired Architect and the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Sisi Aladire Enterprises – masters in the art of tie-dye fabric methods – and she will be exhibiting at Wear Nigeria 2024, which showcases Nigeria’s rich textiles and Afrocentric design to the world. The 2024 edition of Wear Nigeria will take place for from November 08 – 10 as follows: Day 1: Symposium, Panel Exhibitions and Exhibition Day 2: Exhibition on Nigerian Fashion & Textile Day 3: Exhibition, Cultural Performance & Fashion Runway Locations: Alliance Francaise (Mike Adenuga Centr, Ikoyi. Lagos) + Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island (see poster…
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In collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Cambridge, the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab) at King’s College runs an extracurricular program aimed at cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset in Africa which students can apply with their own projects to win a prize. The aim is to encourage student innovators to challenge the status quo and re-imagine the world through sustainable and ethical projects that can have a positive social and environmental impact. The panel discussion series – slated for November 05 & 12 and tagged tagged African Founders – will bring together key figures from the entrepreneurial sector, with a specific…
In 2023, over 4,000 tech enthusiasts converged in Uyo (Akwa Ibom State) for the Akwa Ibom Tech Week – an extraordinary experience spanning innovation in tech, networking with industry leaders, and brainstorming within workshops and panels. Building on last year’s success, where 500 youths received Google Scholarships and job placements, organisers of Akwa Ibom Tech Week 2024 have promised to create an even stronger innovation ecosystem. Key events include: Hackathon & Cultural Night Conference & Venture Showcase Career Fair & Creative Showcase Ecosystem Hub Tour 📅 Date: October 28 – November 2, 2024📍 Venue: Key locations across Akwa Ibom State…
Alliance Française de Lagos are excited to announce that its Open Call, targeted at creatives, is here again! The objective of the Open Call is to provide a platform for those in the Creative sector to share their remarkable talent, showcase crafts, and collaborate with the Alliance on exciting projects. The focus will be on creatives in these categories: Performing Arts Visual Arts Cinema Library Every submission will be meticulously reviewed in line with the Alliance Française mission to promote cultural exchange, diversity, social development, gender equality, and digital innovation. To share your entries, click here. Or scan the QR…
Applications are now open for Google’s 2025 Europe, Middle East and Africa summer Internship programme, offering several growth opportunities – from Engineering & Technology to Business Marketing and Sales. All interns are a part of Google: involved in solving problems and helping create products and services used by billions of users around the world. Google invites you to come on board to help them build for everyone.To browse available roles, and to apply for an internship position, click here. Application deadline is October 25, 2024.
Nathan Nwachuku (Founder & Chairman, TerraHaptix) has shared that his company just completed a second successful load test of its Duma ground drone, pulling a 2.1-ton car while carrying an 80kg human being – all fully powered by ArtemisOS, a TerraHaptix proprietary C2 software.Nathan wryly adds: Another engineer was kind enough to volunteer his car :)#technology #ai Nathan Nwachuku (Founder & Chairman, TerraHaptix) TerraHaptix – Africa’s largest drone manufacturer – is a robotics company building low-cost, unmanned systems for core industries. They refer to themselves as being on a mission to accelerate automation in emerging markets. The company recently opened a…
Dr. Abiodun Adereni (Founder & CEO, HelpMum Africa) HelpMum Africa – promoters of maternal and infant healthcare in Africa – were recently announced as one of the winners of the Meta LIama Innovation grant award, during the Concordia Summit that took place in New York during the UN General Assembly (#UNGA79). The company’s win is tied to its developing an innovative chatbot service that delivers accurate and timely information on vaccination and immunisation. Leveraging Llama 3’s advanced language processing capabilities, HelpMum Africa created Vax-Llamamodel — an AI-driven, open-source model designed to provide reliable vaccination information. This open source model can be integrated into…
Rethread Africa founders: Charles Oyamo, Noreen Mwancha, and Vincent Momanyi Rethread Africa, an incredible African startup founded by students from the University of Nairobi, continue to stir up conversations as it upcycles sugarcane waste into high-performance, bio-based materials that offer sustainable alternatives to synthetic fibres. Their groundbreaking solution is disrupting the textile industry while advancing sustainability. The innovative team – Charles Oyamo, Noreen Mwancha, and Vincent Momanyi – boasts a biodegradable textile fabric made from agricultural waste, particularly sugarcane. The resulting bio-based polyester may be an effective substitute for traditional polyester as it requires fewer resources to make and can…
Empowering yuth through Agriculture: IfeOluwa Oyeyemi on the job Top LinkedIn post by Sustainable Food Champion | Fruit Farming Expert | Agrodealer Specialist, IfeOluwa Oyeyemi (Founder, FarmHelp Agribusiness): From a young age, I always had a deep desire to help others achieve their dreams while working towards mine. Little did I know that agriculture would be the avenue through which this passion would flourish.As a teenager, my father entrusted us with small parcels of land for petty farming. I chose to plant vegetables, selling them outside our home to earn money, all while dreaming of studying medicine. However, fate had…
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji (Founder, Future Africa) Reposted from LinkedIn x Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: If you are African or a black person from anywhere in the world and you want to build something venture scale I think you need to move to Lagos. Lagos is the largest city in Africa and a 150 billion dollar economy with over 20 million people in a space that’s smaller than New York City. It’s basically New York for black people. From a density perspective you can’t find a better market. It is fully run by very proud black people and a largely responsive government.Most importantly unlike…