Steppes book review. Africa Rising: how 900 million African consumers offer...
this review by Steppes in Sync founder Andy Kozlov appeared in the March 2012 issue Hello Harare! When Vijay Mahajan‘s marketing-focused travelogue of Africa hit the shelves of American brick boxes of...
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updated on July 1, 2012 Zimbabwean director and film producer, Stephen Chigorimbo, has something up his sleeve to resuscitate Zimbabwean film industry. He intends to do it by distributing African film...
View ArticleAfrica story wars: Two black female cultural leaders discuss the importance...
Tsotsi is one of her favorites. Her name is Zama Mkosi, a daughter of a South African Supreme Court judge and a lawyer herself. Initially involved in maritime law, she provided legal services to such...
View ArticleStreet artists from Cape Town to Kyiv via Bamako and from Rio to London via...
Banksy is an England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter. He is famous for a distinctive stencilling technique. His artistic works of political and social commentary...
View ArticleKyiv-s Caribbean club reopens. It has become 3 times bigger than what it used...
by Cosmos Ojukwu On the 11th of January, the one and only Latin American club in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv — the famous Caribbean club — reopened after months of solid renovation. The club has become...
View ArticleSuccessful designer in Syria and internationally, asylum-seeker in Ukraine....
by Illya M. Labunka Hussam Al-Yamani arrived in Ukraine just over one year ago (October 2012) as an asylum seeker when he was forced to flee his homeland during the ongoing civil war in Syria....
View ArticleStruggling to organically build a large user base, who is buying into what in...
Information from Barron’s Emerging Markets Daily section The Zürich-based multinational financial services company Credit Suisse lists three reasons why corporations will pursue acquisitions this year:...
View ArticleAfrican Creative Industries: Key Figures and Latest Trends
Mike van Graan, Executive Director of African Arts Institute and Programme Director of the 2013 Arterial Network African Creative Economy Conference, in his February 2014 article “African Creative...
View ArticleIn a world of ever competing elevator pitches, Basic Lead tells the good...
by Andy Kozlov (@KozlovAndy) There are myriads of ways to tell a story. You can talk about national leaders, and thus portray continents like Africa by painting a picture of long-serving leaders — some...
View ArticleZimbabwean sculpture raises funds in 12th century Prague monastery, for...
MIRO Gallery, situated on the grounds of the mid-12th century Strahov Monastery, is one of the most popular galleries in Prague, Czech Republic. Transferred to Prague from Berlin in April 1994, this...
View ArticleThese are your Creative Slavs in Africa: from Ukrainian wife of Swazi king’s...
As our news screens beam out feeds about Miss South Africa Rolene Strauss taking the Miss World 2014 crown, we’d like to draw your attention to some Slav Africans gracing the podiums both in London and...
View ArticleThis is probably the first time you hear from Tendai Huchu in 2015 — and...
Steppes in Sync’s own Andy Kozlov / @KozlovAndy talks to Zimbabwe’s Scotland-based writer Tendai Huchu about the newly released novel The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician (Get Print Copy...
View ArticleZimbabwean literature segregated no more. More than 30 years after...
As part of our African Literature as Creative Enterprise series, Brian Jones and Jane Morris of amaBooks talk to John Eppel. Here is how the Bulawayo, Zimbabwe-based author explains his relationship...
View ArticleThis Kadoma, Zimbabwe-born novelist, mom of two, teaches us the value of...
No one ever expects to actually know a writer. Well, not a good writer anyway. Writers are faraway people who sit in some distant land penning novels surrounded by the mists of secrecy. A writer is not...
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