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Afro-optimism, or more specifically, the African growth mindset is a greater sense of optimism that, despite challenges such as electricity and water that the continent faces, is in stark contrast to a growing Western degrowth mindset of pessimism about the future, and Africa.

“We can talk about AI all we want to, but the foundations of AI are about how you can harness the power of digital to transform the continent in the way we want it to transform.”.

Episode 3 is the Energy Episode with special guests Kagiso Tshepe, executive creative director at Grid Worldwide, Roanna Williams, chief creative officer and co-founder of Boundless, Fran Luckin, chief creative officer of VML, Preetesh Sewraj, CEO of The Loeries and Brandon Govender, digital & integrated executive creative director at Joe Public.

Birdwatching at The Loeries Episode 2 is the Emotion Episode and features special guests Neo Segola, head of creative at Le Pub, part of the Publicis Group, Sharleen James, chair of the ACA and marketing practice lead at Accenture Song, Tebogo Skwambane, WPP country manager, Terry McKenna, executive creative director of The Odd Number and rounding it off Carl Willoughby, chief creative officer of TBWA / Hunt Lascaris.

Late last week, Tinseltown hit Cape Town as celebrity expert and journalist, Clayton Morar, celebrated the one year anniversary of his blog.

The Habari Media 'Tuongee' was recently hosted in association with BBC.com, Facebook, Vodacom, BDFM and MTV.

The event was in Alexandra Township and it saw the following Brothers for Life Ambassadors Matthew Booth, Teko Modise, Siphiwe Hlabangane and Tshepo Maseku taking public HIV tests.

Bizcommunity.com's managing editor Simone Puterman (@SimoneBiz) was in the thick of things at the United We Stand parade for Bafana Bafana in Sandton last week, tweeting up a storm in between Vodacom network outages.

The annual Advantage Admag Awards were held recently at Moyo in Zoolake. The stunning setting did justice to the editors and publishers and other guests who attended this prestigious event.

Combine the electric atmosphere of night horse racing with the thrill of poker and you've got a night out you'll not soon forget.