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Bantaba: The Bridge to African Talent and Resources

Bantaba is a digital platform that connects the African diaspora with start-ups in Africa. Hardly a year since they started: “Although we didn’t win the competition, it not only taught us the diaspora’s affinity to Africa but also the level of talent in this community. I mean we had people with backgrounds in renewable energy, aerospace engineering, machine learning, and cloud computing,” Lamin who is the CEO said.

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Valid8 Pre-Accelerator: The Accelerator for the Future

Startups may be small companies but they can play a significant role in economic growth especially in Africa. They create more jobs, innovation, and change. We believe that startups are the driving force behind our future generation and, Valid8 Pre-accelerator advocates for the entrepreneurs in their early stage and support them to continue to foster innovation.

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Rwanda Genocide: A Closer Look at How the Nordics Participated in Bringing Closure to the Land of a Thousand Hills

If you are reading about the Rwandan Genocide for the first time, this conflict was considered the result of a civil war between the Hutus and the Tutsis. It all started when Rwanda’s President, Juvénal Habyarimana, was killed when his plane was shot down. Hutu extremists then gained control of the government and started a genocide that would brutally murder up to 800,000 people between April 7 and July 15, 1994.

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Ambitious Education: Alternative Learning Methods and the Future of Education in Africa

Alternative learning methods and the future of education in Africa were on the agenda of the webinar held by Ambitious.Africa’s Education Team on the 25th of February.

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Spotify in Africa: Is Kenya the Biggest Beneficiary?

Spotify is physically in Africa and consumers can’t keep calm! On February 23, 2021, the world’s largest streaming service announced that it had launched in 84 more countries across the world including Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Tanzania. That means more platforms and choices for African consumers as they will be competing alongside Apple Music, Boomplay, Audiomack, YouTube Music, Deezer, and Mdundo. Upon the announcement, the first question that came to this writer’s mind is what took them so long and why now?

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Ambitious.Africa x Home Street Home x LUTES: Building Entrepreneurial Mindset in Makongeni, Kenya

Ambitious.Africa, Home Street Home, and LUTES have joined forces to build an entrepreneurship bootcamp that encourages entrepreneurial mindset, provides hard skills, and inspires creative problem-solving for the Home Street Home community. We use the train-the-trainer concept for maximizing the impact and making it sustainable. The first edition of the three-day bootcamp with 25 participants will take place in May 2021 in Makongeni, Kenya.

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Ambitious Zambia: Envisage Valid8 Bootcamp - Three Days Full of Innovation

Ambitious Zambia hosted Envisage Valid8 Bootcamp on 26th to 28th November in Lusaka, bringing youth together and teaching them entrepreneurial mindset and skills as well as creating an environment and support for piloting of innovations during the training process.

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Ambitious Kenya: MiniMasterclass on Investments - What did we learn?

Last month the Ambitious Africa Kenya team hosted a mini masterclass featuring one stellar Kenyan entrepreneur and one far-reaching Finnish investor.

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Promoting Access to Remote Learning during COVID-19: Ubongo’s Journey

Ubongo, meaning “brain” in Kiswahili, came to life in 2013 with the aim to help kids in Africa to learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Ubongo provides powerful edutainment solutions to make e-learning fun by using edu-cartoons and the power of media, like TV, radio, and mobile devices.

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Opinion: Through the Lens of Shared Humanity

The fixation on walls in global politics reflects a concerning trend of division between people with a different worldview. Young people and journalists around the world can imagine alternatives together by placing our shared humanity at the centre of everything we do.

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Opinion: Why We Need Intersectionality To Address Sexual Violence

There has been a spike in sexual violence across the African continent during the past years. COVID-19 has only made things worse. The plight and angst of women protestors have fallen on deaf ears, revealing the inefficacy of the state in addressing sexual violence. This calls for an honest and progressive approach.

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Ambitious Startups Weekly No. 1

This week on Ambitious Startups Weekly we’re highlighting three African startups breaking barriers within health, education and entertainment. Join us on the startup journey!

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Finnish-Namibian Joint Tech Campus Promotes Cross-cultural ICT Learning Between Africa and the Nordics

The University of Turku overseas campus in Namibia provides courses in programming and educational robotics. On campus, students and teachers develop human-centred technologies together, using unique cultural lenses when identifying and solving problems.