Vimal Shah is the Chief Executive Officer of the BIDCO Group, a leading manufacturer, marketer and distributor of edible oils, fats and hygienic products. Vimal has transformed BIDCO from a small and an unknown company to East Africa’s most respected manufacturing company. Bidco already has manufacturing operations in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The company further […]
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VENTURES AFRICA – Business in opened in Africa and the former “hopeless” continent is thriving with trade and investment opportunities. Africa is seeing increased Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and its major companies are also divesting business operations overseas. ‘African companies going global have reached unprecedented heights in recent years. These companies’ overseas expansion is characterised by […]
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Michael Jordan’s individual accolades and accomplishments include five MVP awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances, three All-Star Game MVP awards, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. He holds the NBA records for highest career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and highest career […]
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Asunta Wasura: A life fulfilled! It isn’t every day that you get to meet someone who’s done something for so many just by being courageous and open. Wagura is such a person. When Asunta started raising people’s awareness about HIV, few were willing to talk about it; many were scared. Apart from […]
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Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam (born April 16, 1973), professionally known as simply Akon, is a Senegalese American R&B and hip hop recording artist, songwriter, record producer and businessman. He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of “Locked Up”, the first single from his debut album Trouble. He has since founded two successful record labels, Konvict Muzik and Kon Live Distribution. His second album, “Konvicted” received three nominations for the […]
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Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2011, Forbes named him the highest paid man in entertainment, earning $130 million between May 2010 and 2011.Perry is best known for creating, and performing in drag, the Madea character, a giant, overreactive, and thuggishly tough elderly woman. He’s also well-known for creating numerous feature films, starting […]
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Kenya’s low cost film industry – dubbed Riverwood after Nairobi’s River Road area – has flourished in recent years, but is still dwarfed by Nigeria’s Nollywood. Lizz Njagah, one of Kenya’s leading TV and film actresses, has been active in both industries. Njagah has acted in long-running soap opera, ‘Tinsel’, as the character Tare Duke. She recently […]
Read MoreWatch this video that highlights a project the Homeboyz Productions did with with Warner Bros to provide a kenyan animation production.
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Nairobi — An increasing number of African countries are beginning to step away from aid dependency, as the domestic private sector becomes the engine of growth across much of Africa. Currently, at least a third of African countries receive aid that is equivalent to less than 10 percent of their tax revenue. They include Algeria, […]
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Johannesburg- South African songstress, Lerato Molapo, best known to her fans as Lira has been chosen from a shortlist of African musicians to perform at an inauguration ball for American president Barack Obama on January 21. An ecstatic Lira said in Pretoria on Wednesday “I’m very excited. I got the invite about three weeks ago. […]
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Kenya has an abundance of talent, especially in the film and television industry. We feature seven rising young stars who are doing us proud. The TRUE LOVE team takes a closer look. These women are: Lupita Nyong’o, Angel Waruinge, Joy Kendi, Liz Njagah, Alison Ngibuini, Natasha Likimani and Carol Nguta LUPITA NYONG’O, 20s ACTRESS / […]
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Raped by a stranger, losing her mother, Mary Onyango to breast cancer… Radio presenter Adelle Onyango, 23, talks poignantly of the double blow life has dealt her. Four years ago, in 2008, I was raped by a stranger. My girlfriends and I had left a house party to hit a club in Westlands, Nairobi. When I realised that […]
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ISIS NYONG’O IS A PROLIFIC CITIZEN OF THE WORLD AND A NEWLY ENGAGED WOMAN. Isis Nyong’o has always been known as an achiever. Google her name and what pops up is Forbes, MTV. Stanford, Harvard, the Wall Street Journal, Top 40 under 40, Africa’s 20 youngest power women…the list goes on. As Vice President of […]
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What a year it has been! Since its launch in March,Ventures Woman has shared stories of inspiring women making headway in Africa’s dynamic economic environment. Despite significant economic and political upheavals in many African countries, these women, and many more unnamed, have striven pushed and broken down barriers to succeed in many industries, particularly male-dominated industries. These […]
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Njeri Rionge is CEO and founder of Ignite Consulting. She is also a co-founder of Wananchi Online (now known as Wananchi Group), east Africa’s leading provider of PayTv, broadband internet and VoIP services. Rionge is one of our Five outstanding Kenyan women entrepreneurs. Njeri Rionge, serial entrepreneur (Kenya) 1. What was your first job? It […]
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