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Voicing the true African visionThis week, Danette Breitenbach takes us on the journey of a reimagined Africa, with insight into how VIMN Africa has transformed the way the world sees Africa over the past decade from images of hunger, poverty and war to a continent of vibrant colours, music, culture and talent. Shifting our focus to the digital space, the Nigerian government has plans to allegedly muzzle the expression of opinion on social media for the country's approximately 15 million social media users through the bill to "Prohibit Frivolous Petitions and Other Matters Connected Therewith". Fittingly, they've taken to Twitter to voice their opposition through the #NoToSocialMediaBill hashtag. Our voices will be heard... Comment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Weekly top stories |
|  | [Danette Breitenbach] Over the past decade VIMN Africa has transformed how the world sees Africa from images of hunger, poverty and war to a continent of vibrant colours, music, culture and talent... read
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 | On the latest Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show, host Warren Harding interviewed Luisa Mazinter and Andrew Fradd... read | | |
 | Leigh Andrews Future thinking from Ran Neu-Ner and Gil Oved of The Creative Counsel (TCC), jointly named The Annual AdFocus 2015 Industry Leaders of the Year... read | | |
 | Satellite broadband provider, Yahsat, has launched a new service partnership with internet service provider iWayAfrica Uganda, to bring satellite broadband connectivity to Uganda via its YahClick service... read | | |
 | The December/January issue of New African Woman, the award-winning bi-monthly magazine covering the African continent and its Diaspora, collates the nominees in African Women of the Year... read | | |
 | Muchemi Wachira Nation journalist, Eric Wainana has been named the winner of this year's Norbert Zongo Investigative Journalism... read | | |
 | The Nigerian fine that precipitated a management shake-up at MTN has been increased again, to $3.9bn from the $3.4bn the company was told on Wednesday it would have to pay by the end of December... read | |  | Candice Goodman, Issued by Mobitainment Simply put gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanisms in a non-game context. These were the key success factors in the recent multi-award-winning Red Bull Kas'Lami Tembisa campaign... read | | | | |
 | Halimatou Ceesay Media Agenda, a non-profit media training and research NGO, is to train 50 radio journalists from 7 to 11 December 2015 at Kunta Kinteh Camp in Juffureh... read | | |
 | Danette Breitenbach PricewaterhouseCooper's presented its fourth annual edition on the gaming industry, Taking the odds: Gambling Outlook for 2015 - 2019 (South Africa - Nigeria - Kenya), recently at 54 on Bath in Rosebank Johannesburg... read | | |
 | NEWSWATCH: Approximately 15 million people in Nigeria take to social media to express their opinions online. Now the government is attempting to pass a bill that will allegedly muzzle social media... read | |  | Cecilia Mohlala We have evidence of how powerful social media is to the masses, and in the recent incident of a television programme, it has become even more evident what the rage can do to a reputable institution... read | |  | Bianca Quinn-Diavastos Social media continues to grow at a rapid pace, but many brands are still a bit unsure about how they can harness it in a way that drives better relationships with their customers... read | | |
 | Leigh Andrews Fox International Channels recently appointed Ratna Siriah as the new general manager for FOX International Channels (FIC) Africa. Find out Siriah's views on the current state of international pay-TV on the continent as well as future plans for locally produced content... read | | |  | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Yahoo launched a next-generation messaging platform Thursday in an ambitious bid to steal a march on a crowded field, as rumors swirled that the Internet pioneer is considering selling its core business... read | |  | Modifications to Cannes Young Lions will see the 2016 Festival bigger and better than before, with an added incentive for South African creatives to enter for a once in a lifetime experience... read | |  | F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi have designed the campaign for the 2016 D&D Next Awards, creatively imagining a series of posters from some of the most iconic photographic and film works ever made... read | | | | | More International | |
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 | John Sanei The internet has created two clear pockets of people: the hyper-informed consumer and the hyper-sensitive staff member... read | |
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| Booker T. Washington "You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals." Napoleon Hill "You become what you think about." David Brooks "Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so." |
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