July 5, 2025
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“Renowned Playwright Latif Abubakar Set to Take the Global Stage with Latest Sensation ‘Ghana Must Go’! 🎭✈️ #LatifAbubakar #GhanaMustGo #WorldTour #TheatreMagic #TrendingPlay”

Breaking News: Globe Productions CEO Latif Abubakar Unveils Revolutionary 20th Theatre Production ‘Ghana Must Go’! 🌟 #GhanaMustGo 🎭 #BigPushGhanaProject 🌍 #BlackStarExperience 🇬🇭 In a groundbreaking partnership with the Ministries of Tourism, Arts and Culture, and Foreign Affairs, Latif Abubakar is set to shake up the theatre scene with his highly anticipated 20th production, ‘Ghana Must

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“#NigeriaExamsDrama: Blank Questions, Power Outages, and Tragic Consequences”

🔥BREAKING: Nigeria’s university entrance exams rocked by scandal! 😱🚨 The body overseeing Nigeria’s university entrance exams has confessed to a major “technical glitch” that has thrown this year’s results into chaos, with a shocking 80% of students receiving abysmally low grades. 😳💥 Students are up in arms over login failures, missing questions, and power outages

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“Defiant Afrikaner Fights for Refugee Status in the US: Why I’m Here Goes Beyond Fun 🌟 #RefugeeRights #ImmigrationDebate #ViralNews”

🔥🌍 #BreakingNews: South African farmer finds new life in the US under Trump’s refugee policy! 🇺🇸 🌟 From a scenic farm in South Africa to a budget hotel near an American highway – Charl Kleinhaus shares his journey from fear to freedom. #ViralStory 🚜 Forced to leave his home due to death threats, Mr. Kleinhaus

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Sona’s Field Notes #02: The Market Size Misconception

Hello Founders, Investors and Ecosystem Builders, I’m lucky that I get to be part of founder and startup communities where I meet incredible people who are trying to launch their own ventures, and by engaging with me, are helping me do the same. Through all the conversations about ideas and opportunities, there’s a weird sentence

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OP-ED: Why ‘Venture Capital’ in Africa Is a Misnomer—And what to do about it

Africa’s startup funding landscape is often mislabelled as venture capital, but the reality is starkly different. It’s time for honest, context-driven investment models that truly fit. A recent Afridigest LinkedIn post citing Anil Atmaramani’s championing of venture capital (VC) firm Antler’s refreshed approach to venture investing in Africa raises important questions. Atmaramani is West Africa

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POD: Stop Raising Millions—Why African filmmakers must embrace AI or risk irrelevance

Marie Lora-Mungai joins the African Tech Roundup Podcast to explore how AI is democratising filmmaking in Africa—and why adopting emerging tools is now more practical (and necessary) than pursuing conventional production models. Meet Marie Lora-Mungai, expert advisor in African creative industries and sports business and founder of Restless Global, whose 20-year journey from CNN journalist

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OP-ED: When AI Comes for Your Craft—A personal reckoning in Africa’s creative scene

AI is disrupting African creative work—and it’s personal. Andile Masuku confronts hard truths about his own voiceover career and what comes next for creatives all over the continent. “I’m sorry, but I think you’re aware your voice talent job is going to disappear.” I won’t lie, when African creative industries expert Marie Lora-Mungai delivered this

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OP-ED: Africa Isn’t India—But Capitec Bank’s success shows the value of local insight

South Africa’s largest retail bank, Capitec, shows how aligning with real consumer behaviour—not imported models—can unlock value in Africa’s fragmented, stratified, and misunderstood markets. ZAR 102.95 (~USD 5.45) versus ZAR 360.00 (~USD 19.06). That stark price difference—for essentially the same ZAR 50,000 (~USD 2,647.50) funeral cover product—isn’t merely an aggressive pricing strategy. It represents a

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Sona’s Field Notes #03: Principles Over Playbooks

Sona Mahendra challenges the African tech ecosystem’s reliance on startup playbooks and frameworks, arguing instead for first principles approaches to venture building. Hello Founders, Investors and Ecosystem Builders, The more I study startup playbooks, methodology and frameworks, the more I’ve become disillusioned by them. As a keen student of venture building, I endeavour to read

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POD: Venture Building, AI and Scaling Impact—Inside Funema’s vision for backing African ventures

David Ogundeko unpacks Funema’s contrarian venture development philosophy, long-term investment sensibilities, and lessons from nearly a decade of building startups in Nigeria, South Africa, and the US. Episode overview: In this conversation, founder and CEO of Funema, David Ogundeko, shares the journey of an impact-focused alternative investment firm operating for nine years across Nigeria, South

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