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1 week ago | 
connectingafrica.com | Daniel Itai
The rise of social media platforms – such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and YouTube – has made a significant impact on female musicians in Africa, providing global exposure and ways to monetize their art. Due to the unavailability of reputable recording companies and often unfavorable contractual agreements, many female artists have resorted to independent publishing and live performances.
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1 week ago | 
connectingafrica.com | Daniel Itai
Ghana is poised to become a formidable African state when it comes to emerging technology companies. The country is currently conducting deliberations on its Innovation and Startups Bill, promulgated in 2020, which has the opportunity to promote gender inclusivity and support the inception of more female-led startups.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Daniel Itai
Two South African prominent LGBTQ organizations have become the latest victims President Donald Trump’s executive order that froze most U.S. foreign aid that the U.S. Agency for International Development disbursed. Prior to the executive order, USAID had been playing a pivotal role in enhancing the rights of the LGBTQ community in South Africa through financial incentives. Since the executive order, many LGBTQ organizations have been struggling to remain afloat and provide services.
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1 month ago | 
watermarkonline.com | Jeremy Williams |Daniel Itai
Namibia’s new president promises equality, ‘prosperity for all’ Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (Screen capture via Kenya Digital News/YouTube)March 21 was a historic day for Namibia with the inauguration of Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the country’s first female president who resoundingly won last November’s presidential election.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Daniel Itai
March 21 was a historic day for Namibia with the inauguration of Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the country’s first female president who resoundingly won last November’s presidential election. Nandi-Ndaitwah in her inaugural speech vowed to uphold the rights of every Namibian by bringing shared prosperity for all, and pledged to enhance gender parity across the country.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Daniel Itai
Advocacy groups in Ghana have welcomed the demise of a bill that would have further criminalized LGBTQ people and outlawed allyship. President John Mahama on Jan. 14 said the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill that MP Sam George of Ningo-Prampram co-sponsored in 2021 was essentially dead. Mahama made the remarks to a delegation of bishops from the Ghana Catholic Bishop’s Conference.
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1 month ago | 
connectingafrica.com | Daniel Itai
When many people hear about the term artificial intelligence (AI), the immediate thing that comes to mind is robotics, humanoids and the ability to initiate a thought process within the blink of an eye. Although factually correct, AI is not only limited to these things and covers multiple categories of systems. AI is largely attributed to two computer scientists, Alan Turing and John McCarthy, who invented the technology and came up with the name in the 1950s.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Daniel Itai
Mohsin Hendricks, the world’s first openly gay Imam was shot dead in Gqeberha, South Africa last weekend while attending a wedding. According to the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, the motive behind Hendricks’s murder remains unknown, however, there are suspicions that the crime might be a religiously motivated hate crime.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonblade.com | Daniel Itai
Several South African advocacy groups say they are not moved by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s pledge to protect LGBTQ rights during the State of the Nation speech he delivered in Cape Town on Feb. 6. “As South Africans, we stand for peace and justice, for equality and solidarity. We stand for non-racialism and democracy, for tolerance and compassion,” said Ramaphosa.
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2 months ago | 
connectingafrica.com | Daniel Itai
Last November, the Australian legislature passed the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024, which will come into effect towards the end of this year. The new law will now prevent Australians under the age of 16 from having accounts on social media platforms, such Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and X, and punish social media platforms for systemic breaches with fines of up to $49.5 million Australian dollars (US$30.5 million).
