Posts tagged kenya
Bank on Me: Breast Milk Donations to Help Vulnerable Kids

The importance of breast milk to infant nutrition is second to none. In fact, WHO in acknowledging the same has encouraged exclusive breastfeeding and skin-to-skin practice to reduce infant mortality rates and donated breast milk as the first alternative for premature babies and low birth weight babies. A move that has since seen over 600 milk banks open up in more than 60 countries globally. Kenya is among those countries having opened the first milk bank within the Eastern Africa region in 2019 at the Pumwani Maternity Hospital.

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Camille Storm - On Music in Africa before, during & post Covid_19

As a continent, Africa has become synonymous with music over the years. Whether it’s dancing to the beat of our own drums, telling our stories or acknowledging the inherent groove that exists in every aspect of our lives, it’s safe to say that our love affair with music transcends status, nationality, tribe and generation. However, like many lines of work, the music industry was affected profoundly by the Coronavirus outbreak. To give us a better look at Africa’s vibrant music scene before, during and after the pandemic, we sat down with Camille Storm, a Creative Entrepreneur with her finger on the pulse of Africa’s music scene.

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Guideline to Affordable Nairobi Shopping experience

In Nairobi, we have second hand, open space vendor markets that are the best place to shop current trends. In a city where high end labels are not sold in malls, you can never go wrong with the markets. The most prominent of these markets are Toi, Ngara, Gikomba, and Adams arcade. They offer the cheapest and most diverse selection and they are also pocket friendly.

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Hussein Mohammed dreams of having the most lucrative football league in Africa

Africans love football, in fact, football is a religion in Africa. 50% of the population watched some part of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The final game of the UEFA Champions League in May 2015 attracted over 20 million African viewers. Across the continent, everywhere you go, you'll run into young boys, girls, men and women all in football jerseys. Unfortunately, most of these Jerseys and football enthusiasm is for foreign leagues and teams

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East African Safari and the Big Five

East African Safari : Here's why you should take a Safari to East Africa. If you're a tourist in the East Africa region, especially in Kenya and Tanzania, then a “safari” should be on top of your 'to do list'. Kenya has a considerable land area of wildlife habitat and the search for the 'Big Five' in the Maasai Mara, in particular lions, leopards, buffalos, rhinoceroses and elephants, is one of Kenya’s biggest attractions.

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Interview with Sam Gichuru; CEO Nailab

Sam Gichuru is the CEO of Nailab, a Nairobi Kenya based business incubator and startup accelerator that offers a 3 - 6 month entrepreneurship program with focus on growing innovative technology driven ideas. Startups like Hisa play and Keja hunt have all be featured at Nailab. Here's an interview we did with Sam in the backdrop of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit that was hosted in Kenya.

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