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The 5 top worst cities to live in Africa in 2022
1. Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬
2. Algiers, Algeria 🇩🇿
3. Tripoli, Libya 🇱🇾
4. Harare, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
5. Douala, Cameroon 🇨🇲
A Ghanaian-British guy named Danny Manu created earbuds with built-in automatic language translation. The earbuds can live to translate into over 40 languages.
10 most powerful African countries in 2023
1. 🇪🇬Egypt
2. 🇿🇦South Africa
3. 🇲🇦Morocco
4. 🇲🇺Mauritius
5. 🇸🇨Seychelles
6. 🇹🇳Tunisia
7. 🇷🇼Rwanda
8. 🇩🇿Algeria
9. 🇨🇮Ivory Coast
10. 🇬🇭Ghana
Source - Global Soft Power Index
1. Top 4 African countries in where workers earn the best salaries
1. Morocco🇲🇦
2. South Africa🇿🇦
3. Tunisia🇹🇳
4. Kenya🇰🇪
Source - Statista and Salary Explorer
Top 9 African countries with the highest quality of life
1. 🇲🇦 Morocco
2. 🇪🇬 Egypt
3. 🇿🇦 South Africa
4. 🇹🇳 Tunisia
5. 🇬🇭 Ghana
6. 🇰🇪 Kenya
7. 🇨🇲 Cameroon
8. 🇿🇲 Zambia
9. 🇩🇿 Algeria
Source - News and World Report.
Top 4 most magnificent places for tourists to visit in Africa during the 2023 summer
1. Zanzibar🇹🇿
2. Lake Malawi🇲🇼
3. Marrakesh🇲🇦
4. Mount Kilimanjaro🇹🇿
Source - Travel Magazine
"Don’t get tired of applying for jobs.
Don’t get tired of submitting your business proposals.
Don’t get tired of knocking on ‘doors’ and networking.
Your breakthrough is around the corner. Keep pushing until something great happens."
@OgbeniDipo
In 2001, Patrick Awuah, who had spent nearly 20 years living in America, moved back to Ghana. He quit his lucrative position as a program manager at Microsoft to set up a university in Accra, which he intended to use to educate young Africans.
Google's doodle is today dedicated to late Nigerian filmmaker and broadcasting executive Amaka Igwe who was born on this day in 1963. She was the owner of Top Radio 90.9 Lagos and Amaka Igwe Studios.
#AmakaIgwe
According to the dashboard is a collaborative initiative by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank, and other partners in their last updates, these four African countries enjoy 100% stability of power supply.
Top 10 most magnificent places for tourists to visit in Africa
1. Zanzibar - 🇹🇿 Tanzania
2. Lake Malawi - 🇲🇼 Malawi
3. Marrakesh - 🇲🇦 Morocco
4. Mount Kilimanjaro - 🇹🇿 Tanzania
5. Kruger National Park - 🇿🇦 South Africa
6. Blue Nile Falls - 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
7. The Pyramids Of Giza -…
Kenyan President William Ruto is ranked as the 13th most influential president on Twitter globally and the first in Africa according to Twiplomacy's Power Ranking, which uses a bespoke algorithm to rank the world.
Tanzania🇹🇿 is the largest rice producer in East Africa and one of the top five rice producers in Africa.
The country has the 5th best environment for traders in Africa.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos retained his crown as world’s richest at the end of 2019, despite losing $38B in his famous divorce saga. The Amazon CEO is ending the year with a staggering $115 billion fortune, roughly $10 billion less than he had at the beginning of 2019
The moment Nigerian filmmaker Joel Kachi Benson's "Daughters of Chibok" won the best virtual reality story at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. He beat off competition from 12 other virtual reality (VR) stories from across the world👏👏
South Africa 🇿🇦, Algeria 🇩🇿, and Nigeria 🇳🇬 have the largest foreign exchange reserves in Africa.
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Courtesy to the latest figures made available by African central banks.
The product called Click is marketed as "the world's first completely wireless headphones" and offers live voice translation in 40 different languages.
African countries that have imposed internet restrictions so far in 2023
1. Ethiopia 🇪🇹
2. Tanzania 🇹🇿
3. Mauritania 🇲🇷
4. Sudan 🇸🇩
5. Guinea 🇬🇳
6. Senegal 🇸🇳
7. Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
8. Gabon 🇬🇦
Source - Surfshark
Top 10 most-innovative countries in Africa
1. Mauritius 🇲🇺
2. South Africa 🇿🇦
3. Kenya 🇰🇪
4. Cabo Verde 🇨🇻
5. Tanzania 🇹🇿
6. Namibia 🇳🇦
7. Rwanda 🇷🇼
8. Senegal 🇸🇳
9. Botswana 🇧🇼
10. Malawi 🇲🇼
Source: Global Innovation Index
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Did you know, only 20 African countries are wealthier than Dangote? According to VON Digest, if Dangote were a country he will be the 21st richest country in Africa.
"The youth have a lot to offer, and they should be engaged in key roles in every sector of the economy."
Do you agree?
- Paul Kagame
🎥 | Brookings Institute
Are you starting a business, learning for an exam, working or doing anything you think you’re failing at?
You can’t have it all figured out from scratch. As
@Mashstartup
has said “Make room to grow and develop with time and experience.”
Nigeria🇳🇬 is now Africa's top destination for foreign direct investment with nearly 30% of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment).
- Nearly 30% of Africa's foreign direct investment goes to Nigeria.
- The Nigerian tech sector drew $4.4 billion in investments in 2015, 2019, and 2020…
Nigeria🇳🇬 has the highest number of people who save in U.S. Dollars among African countries.
According to World Bank data, Nigerian's USD savings is at 149.32 billion, topping other African nations.
"Leaders of the 4th industrial revolution are not government or academia but young talented African youth"
- Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, co-founder of Andela
Credit |
@wef
Uganda🇺🇬, Botswana🇧🇼, and Ghana🇬🇭 have the most female entrepreneurs in the world
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According to the 2021 Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE)