"Africa I gatcha!" - Informative, Factual, Interactive and Current 4Africas4gottenbottomillions

Celebrating Africa Day - Top 10 Companies in Africa - Update from Businesses in Africa

May 25, 2020 Michael Onyango Season 2 Episode 69
"Africa I gatcha!" - Informative, Factual, Interactive and Current 4Africas4gottenbottomillions
Celebrating Africa Day - Top 10 Companies in Africa - Update from Businesses in Africa
Show Notes

 “May this convention of union last 1,000 years.”
African countries including Ghana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Zambia, Mali, and Zambia recognise Africa Day as a public holiday.  Other countries have celebrations to mark the historical day, while international cities, such as New York, Dublin, Melbourne, London, and Washington engage in academic gatherings and cultural showcases to mark the day.
https://africa.com/10-things-know-africa-day/

In Nigeria, one of the countries with the greatest potential for rapidly scaling up production, pharmaceutical manufacturing production currently utilizes around 40 percent of actual installed capacity. https://www.cfr.org/blog/scaling-african-pharmaceutical-manufacturing-time-covid-19

 Blantyre-based tech firm iMoSyS is one such company that is now using its 3D printers and computer assisted design (CAD) software to design reusable face masks and face shields for healthcare workers. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52776994 

Dynamic, a reformer and an adept diplomat, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is at the heart of tectonic change in Ethiopia and in the region. The country was starting to outgrow the governing and economic model that had turned it into East Africa’s largest economy. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiy_Ahmed

Top 250 Companies operating in Africa
https://africanbusinessmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/AB_0520_Top-250-Companies_compressed.pdf

How to cook Jollof rice… in simple steps to help you celebrate Africa Day https://twitter.com/Kurlycheeks/status/1264807349082116097?s=20

The Tigrayans or Tigrinyas are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to Northeast Africa who primarily inhabit the highlands of Eritrea and the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. They speak the Tigrinya language, a direct descendant of the Ge’ez language that was spoken in late antiquity
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4daTQxNUNM

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