-Yakouba Konaté (curator of the Dakar Biennial) at Primo Marella Gallery, is putting together “an important group show focused on contemporary art from Africa”. Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Soly Cissé (Senegal), Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroon), Moridja Kitenge Banza (Republic of Congo), Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo (D.R.C.), Jöel Andrianomearisoa (Madagascar), and Peter Eastmann, Cameron Platter, Stuart Bird, and Athi Patra Ruga of South Africa are included.

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Nokia, the global mobile phone maker and solutions provider, sees mobile internet and applications as next growth frontier for Sub-Saharan Africa that will help transform the continent’s socio-economic growth.New figures indicate that Africa is recovering strongly from the global recession with economic growth, a factor that may help drive penetration of mobile connectivity to 69 percent by 2014, compared to 49 percent in 2009.

Samsung will be focusing on Africa’s top 10 economies, which together generate 79 percent of the continents wealth and house almost 47 percent of the population.[Samsung ]

ForgetMeNot Africa introduces to teh African telecom market the first two-way SMS facebook service available on any basic mobile phone.The company ’s Message Optimiser technology converts Facebook action and Facebook chat messages into SMS format enabling millions of cellphone subscribers accross the continent to access Facebook.

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Iroko Partners, which partnered with Google’s youtube to make it happen, provides distribution, rights management and marketing services to Africa’s many regional movie industries. They are rapidly partnering with all the major players in film distribution to sanitize Nollywood internationally.

Their list of content distribution partners also include Dailymotion,Amazon on demand and Itunes.

Website:Nollywood Love

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-Opera village near Ouagadougou worth 2 million Euros will be built by architect extraordinaire Francis Kere. [ Source]

-3 million years of Kenyan history to be distributed online and accessed from mobile phones.[Source ]

-The music and ideas of Oumou Sangaré [Source ]

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-Zain announced a partnership with IBM to roll out a $1.5 billion infrastructure to be based in Kenya which would support among many other things a Music(think iTunes) and App store (Thin Ovi). [source]

–Ciment institute to be established in Nigeria.[Source]

-Sudan has unveiled plans to redesign a number of its cities into the shape of animals. The southern capital of Juba – reportedly one of the fastest growing cities in the world, is to be relocated and restructured into the shape of a rhinoceros. [Source]

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Their solution can be opening up increased product sales coupled with additional benefits of mobile payment capabilities, transaction fees revenue, loyalty programs benefits, and more all facilitated by inexpensve and affordable mobile phones

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Abbey Road Live is the name for the latest division at EMI. It is a new live music audio and video recording and instant production service, that will allow fans to purchase high quality live recordings of shows they’ve just attended. The recordings will be available for sale in a range of formats including CD, DVD and USB or via secure digital delivery to home computers or mobile as streams or downloads

The management team consists of :
-Simon Miller, EMI Music’s Senior Vice President of New Product Development and Live, who brings a background in both the creative and business sides of established and entrepreneurial digital media enterprises to lead Abbey Road Live. Prior to joining EMI in May 2009, Miller was involved in the launch of several start ups, including European online music company Peoplesound.com and swopex.com, the UK’s largest legal media swapping community. He also worked at Universal Music Group in business development.

-Will Shapland, an experienced recording engineer and producer, will consult for Abbey Road Live in London. Shapland has been involved in live, multi-track concert recordings for artists including David Bowie, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Robbie Williams, U2, Oasis, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Stevie Wonder, The Three Tenors, Sex Pistols and Live Aid, among others. He was chief engineer for Manor Mobiles, a unit of Virgin and EMI, before selling the business and launching Will Shapland Mobiles, based in Oxfordshire, England.

-David “Noggin” Rowntree, head of operations for Abbey Road Live in the UK and Rest of World. He was part of the original Live Here Now team that produced live recordings throughout Europe, the Middle East and the UK and for artists such as Blur, The Pixies, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Moby, Graham Coxon, The Brand New Heavies, Throbbing Gristle and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.

Marcus “MJ” Salisbury is head of production for Abbey Road Live, based in London. He was part of the Live Here Now launch team and has been with Mute Records for 15 years, working in a variety of A&R and recording production roles. Salisbury has worked closely on records from Mute artists such as Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Moby, Erasure and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds among others, and has worked with some of the industry’s most talented producers including Flood, Ben Hillier, Gareth Jones and Steve Albini.

-Veteran live music producer and DiscLive founder Zach Bair will consult full time for Abbey Road Live’s operations in North America and Latin America. He is a musician and producer who has launched and run several music-related software, live recording and on-site duplication companies, including PowerUp, Immediatek, DiscLive and RockHouse Live Media Productions. He has worked on live productions with such artists as The Pixies, Melissa Ethridge, JC Chasez, Billy Idol, Kenny Loggins and Sum 41, and has produced live recordings in partnership with several Billboard conferences, including the Billboard Latin Awards in 2009.

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