-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 ]

-650 Engineers, Designers, Web Developers, Entrepreneurs and Students learned how Google hope to spur Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa and even closer to home Uganda.[Source]

-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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• Zain Shakes Kenyan Mobilephone Market With New Rates ! (siku-moja.blogspot.com)

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Nigeria requires an estimated 15-17.5 million housing units of various types to meet its backlog of housing deficit [Architect Africa]

Introduction by Zain Kenya of a new cross-network tariff of Sh6, establishing itself as one of the cheapest options in the market ahead of its planned takeover by Indian operator Bharti Airtel.[Business Daily]

Three paraplegic middle-aged street-dwellers who live in cardboard boxes in a lawless city  stay sane by making music.[ BBC]

23 Billion USD deal signed between China and Nigeria [BBC]

The Lagos Stock Market rally continues [Next]

The Ivorian Photographer Paul Sika came out with his novel titled; “Paul Sika – at the Heart of Me…” which is out on sale now. [Ghanablogging]

A new and improved version of yams may soon be heading to Europe in large quantities.Consulers of the staples buy on average 200 million USD worth of the product every year.[Next]

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• Ivorian artist Paul Sika’s glorious Technicolor world (cnn.com)

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What does it mean to E-commercant in Kenya ? Well they should be able now to sell their online products and services against payment via this secure and direct  system.So much for Paypal not allowing African E-retailer into the global game of commerce over the internet.

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• Talking Mobile Banking in Kenya (whiteafrican.com)
• Intangible Money + Cell Network Banks = Secure Money (stoweboyd.com)

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-ZAIN Kenya said it expects more subscribers to use its data services owing to reduced costs.Read more

The chief executive officers of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Mr. Erastus Akingbola; Sebastine Adigwe of AfriBankPlc; Okey Nwosu of Finbank Plc; Mrs Cecilia Ibru of Oceanic Bank Plc and Barth Ebong of Union Bank Plc were asked to step down from their respective position and are being replaced.Read more

The city of Kigali is gearing up for the public offer of city bonds amounting to Rwf300 billion ($526.3 million), to be raised in eight years, with annual coupon interest between 11% and 12%.Read more

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• The truth about mobile banking in Africa (guardian.co.uk)
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Read Nigerian copyright act

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Zain, Kenya’s second largest mobile network has lowered its internet charges by approximately 25%.It is higly probable that Zain is responding to the recent announcements by Orange, Safaricom and YU who have all also dropped their internet charges over the last few months.

The intend by either companies is probably  to become the major player in the Kenya’s fast growing internet market – especially when the SEACOM, TEAMS and EASSY high speed undersea cables go live this and next year.

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Key things discussed/mentionned in the video:
Skype
Free phone calls
Iphone
T-Mobile
Hotspot
Melting of bounderies

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RIM is a  leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market.The company develops  integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standard.

The company also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data

Research In Motion (RIM) is the driving force behind award winning BlackBerry smartphones and the BlackBerry solution.

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• Profit Rises 33% for Maker of BlackBerry (nytimes.com)

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Safaricom, Swift Global, Internet Solutions Zain and AccessKenya
can be named among the company that would give a run at MTN Kenyan market penetration strategy.

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