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#BizTrends2026 | dentsu SSA's Dawn Rowlands: While marketing talks about innovation, Africa built it

Marketing

#BizTrends2026 | dentsu SSA's Dawn Rowlands: While marketing talks about innovation, Africa built it

Dawn Rowlands 2 days

Source: Conference Venues South Africa.

Healthcare

Global healthcare leaders to converge in Johannesburg for World Health Expo 2026

2 Jan 2026

The 3 key drivers of Africa’s food-secure future

Agribusiness

The 3 key drivers of Africa’s food-secure future

Paul Makube 28 Nov 2025

Creative Futures Africa Summit: From unseen to unstoppable

Marketing & Media

Creative Futures Africa Summit: From unseen to unstoppable

Issued by Business and Arts South Africa 19 Nov 2025

Geospatial in Africa: The highs, the lows, and what’s ahead in 2025

Digital

Geospatial in Africa: The highs, the lows, and what’s ahead in 2025

Issued by AfriGIS 8 Oct 2025

Source: Supplied

Transport

DHL, Unilever and Volvo launch Superlink electric truck pilot

15 Aug 2025

#AfricaMonth: How Sarah Collins, founder of Wonderbag, is changing lives globally

Africa Month

#AfricaMonth: How Sarah Collins, founder of Wonderbag, is changing lives globally

Evan-Lee Courie 13 May 2025

A new chapter for UP as Professor Francis Petersen takes the helm as the 14th vice-chancellor

Higher Education

A new chapter for UP as Professor Francis Petersen takes the helm as the 14th vice-chancellor

Issued by University of Pretoria 24 Mar 2025

OceanHub Africa launches 5th acceleration programme for ocean-minded startups

SMEs

OceanHub Africa launches 5th acceleration programme for ocean-minded startups

10 Apr 2024

Celebrating tech innovators at the 7th Annual Africa Tech Week Awards - Submit your entry

Marketing

Celebrating tech innovators at the 7th Annual Africa Tech Week Awards - Submit your entry

Issued by Topco Media 5 Apr 2024

Addressing South Africa’s water scarcity is everyone’s responsibility

Food, Water & Energy Security

Addressing South Africa’s water scarcity is everyone’s responsibility

Issued by Irvine Partners 22 Mar 2024

'Blue eyes' by Conor McCreedy fetches R8.2m at Art Basel, funds lifesaving NFT campaign in Africa

ESG

'Blue eyes' by Conor McCreedy fetches R8.2m at Art Basel, funds lifesaving NFT campaign in Africa

Mic Mann, Issued by Mann Made 30 Jun 2023

Metaverse helps bring water to Africa

Digital

Metaverse helps bring water to Africa

Issued by Mann Made 8 Mar 2023

Can tech-enabled SMEs power Africa's growth?

Technology

Can tech-enabled SMEs power Africa's growth?

Dumisani Moyo 30 May 2022

Africa Communications Week an opportunity to promote unity

Africa Month

Africa Communications Week an opportunity to promote unity

20 May 2022

Higher Education

Reimagining Universities

Issued by University of Pretoria 9 Jun 2021

UP strengthens partnership with MSU

Higher Education

UP strengthens partnership with MSU

4 Jun 2021

Reimagining the ocean economy with Ocean Innovation Africa

Social Entrepreneurship

Reimagining the ocean economy with Ocean Innovation Africa

21 Dec 2020

A researcher holds a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine at the National Primate Research Center of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Chaiwat Subprasom/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Covid-19

Africa waited for solutions to past health crises: will it be different for Covid-19?

Hailay Gesesew 2 Jul 2020

OceanHub Africa launches to support ocean economy innovation

Community

OceanHub Africa launches to support ocean economy innovation

9 Dec 2019

Sivan Ya'ari speaking at the SingularityU South Africa Summit 2019. Image supplied.

ESG

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: Bringing Israeli innovation to African villages

21 Oct 2019

Minister talks on Africa's transport sector's full integration

Logistics & Transport

Minister talks on Africa's transport sector's full integration

16 Oct 2019

Robyn Curnow, CNN.

TV

Africa must step up to support its innovators

Robyn Curnow 9 Oct 2019

Africa needs effective ICT policies to enhance competitiveness

ICT

Africa needs effective ICT policies to enhance competitiveness

12 Jun 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

Marketing & Media

Closing date for AWIEF Awards nominations extended

21 May 2019

Image Supplied.

Agriculture

AGCO unveils innovative Farm in a Box initiative for Africa's rural communities

22 Jan 2019

4 challenges facing young entrepreneurs and what to do about them

Skills Training

4 challenges facing young entrepreneurs and what to do about them

Sandiso Sibisi 19 Oct 2018

The African innovation ecosystem

Research

The African innovation ecosystem

20 Sep 2018

African startups named winners of Pitch AgriHack

Food Security

African startups named winners of Pitch AgriHack

Tom Jackson 17 Sep 2018

Accenture searches for Africa's Top 30 tech startups

Tech Startups

Accenture searches for Africa's Top 30 tech startups

13 Sep 2018

Learning and development of the future is being ubered

Education

Learning and development of the future is being ubered

Helen Nicholson 29 Aug 2018

#InspiringFiftySA 2018 winners announced

Technology

#InspiringFiftySA 2018 winners announced

1 Aug 2018

Enter the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

Construction & Engineering

Enter the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

16 Jul 2018

Kenya's Apollo Agriculture secures $500k funding

Agriculture

Kenya's Apollo Agriculture secures $500k funding

Tom Jackson 12 Jul 2018

Africa could position itself as a frontrunner in 4IR

Digital

Africa could position itself as a frontrunner in 4IR

14 Jun 2018

Ministers adopt UNWTO programme to develop tourism in Africa

Tourism & Travel

Ministers adopt UNWTO programme to develop tourism in Africa

7 Jun 2018

Moving beyond the Green Revolution in Africa's new era of hunger

Agriculture

Moving beyond the Green Revolution in Africa's new era of hunger

Calestous Juma 7 Dec 2017

#AfricaAchiever OMG Digital aims to reach Africa's millennials

Media

#AfricaAchiever OMG Digital aims to reach Africa's millennials

Louise Marsland 14 Aug 2017

African startups can thrive in informal markets

Marketing & Media

African startups can thrive in informal markets

Tom Jackson 26 Apr 2017

‘Africa is where others will look for the best in new innovation'

Branding

‘Africa is where others will look for the best in new innovation'

Brett Parker 25 Apr 2017

Unleashing Africa 4.0 through innovation

Logistics & Transport

Unleashing Africa 4.0 through innovation

Saidah Nash Carter 24 Apr 2017

Why African countries banning imports of fruit and veg is a blunt tool

Agriculture

Why African countries banning imports of fruit and veg is a blunt tool

Calestous Juma 22 Mar 2017

Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais

Publishing

Transformation in Africa requires a convergence of ideas, initiatives, vision

15 Feb 2017

Digital

IBM to provide free digital skills training to 25m Africans

Gabriella Mulligan 14 Feb 2017

Marketing & Media

Tanzania embarks on robot making

Hazla Omar 8 Feb 2017

Consumer trends in North Africa

Branding

Consumer trends in North Africa

7 Feb 2017

Marketing & Media

Africa's largest business incubator takes applications

6 Feb 2017

Why microbes are key to solving Africa's food security crisis

Agriculture

Why microbes are key to solving Africa's food security crisis

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi 3 Feb 2017