From politics, to children’s literature, self-help and cookbooks, there was a wide variety of genres that caught the interest of readers worldwide, nudging them up the top sellers’ list. Becoming by Michelle Obama This is an intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States
Read More
dfcu Bank in partnership Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) and the Daily Monitor have been running a program dubbed ‘Rising Woman’ that is aimed at recognizing, celebrating and promoting a culture of mentorship among women in business. During this year’s Rising Woman initiative, dfcu Bank and its partners held a business
Read More
Ketty Adoch, a Ugandan innovator in the Agriculture sector has been named among eleven innovators who have been nominated for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Earth Innovation Awards. Adoch (in featured photo), a geographical information systems specialist works towards monitoring change detection for Land Cover Mapping around the areas surrounding
Read More
Becoming a self-made billionaire puts you in a league of your own. Of the approximately 585 billionaires in the US, about 360 have made their own fortunes. These are people who have made it big through hard work, sheer will, tenacity and being in the right place at the right
Read More
By Aloysious Kasoma dfcu Bank, in partnership with NTV Uganda and Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) have awarded the winners of the second edition of the nationwide Savings and Investment campaign dubbed ‘Battle for Cash’. Aimed at building a savings and investments culture in Uganda, the ‘Battle for Cash’ challenge in
Read More
Franco-Gabonese entrepreneur Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard is the founder of the APO Group, a leading media consulting firm and press release distribution service in Africa and the Middle East. The company, which Pompigne-Mognard founded in 2007, employs close to 80 employees across its offices in Switzerland, Dubai, Senegal and Hong Kong, and has
Read More
Journalist and poet Harriet Anena has won the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, becoming the first Ugandan to receive the honour. She tweeted that she was "super happy" to have won the award for her book of poetry, A Nation in Labour. Her publisher calls it "a
Read More
With a majority of African nations diversifying from traditional sources of income, entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as a key to economic growth. Leading business forum Africa 2018, which kicked off in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt last week recognised this fact by hosting Young Entrepreneurs Day (YED) which brought Africa's most
Read More
Ryan of Ryan ToysReview really isn’t that different from any other first grader. The 7-year-old loves trains and cars; he giggles over Disney characters; he builds entire civilizations with Legos. Except when he plays, he does so in front of a camera. An adult, presumably, then promptly uploads these videos
Read More
On the 1st of January 2019, at 12am, WAT, the Tony Elumelu Foundation will begin accepting applications for the fifth cycle of its Entrepreneurship Programme. 1,000 selected applicants will join the current 4,470 beneficiaries of the Programme. Since 2015, the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme – the only African-funded entrepreneurial catalyst of
Read More
