a The Africa Annual feature. Both Woolworths and Shoprite have announced plans this year for expanding into Africa. Jon Pienaar looks at where they’re going.
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Nollywood drives growth in Nigeria
The Nigerian film industry has finally been recognised as a key economic driver in what is now Africa’s largest economy. Jon Pienaar takes a look at Nollywood in this The Africa Annual feature.
Africa Dispatches: Continental analysis
Accurate research can change the economic fortunes of entire countries. Just ask Nigeria. Mandy de Waal (@mandyldewaal) sorts the good numbers from the bad in this Mark Magazine: Africa Dispatches feature.
It’s good to be #1
by Jon Pienaar. Nigeria as an investment destination has been ramped up to grab the world’s attention because of its huge increase in rebased GDP. But it’s going to take more than that to compete with South Africa for FDI.
Nigeria, Africa’s new economic giant
by Jon Pienaar Nigeria’s much-delayed rebasing of its GDP caused a few waves in April, but how does it affect South Africa? Most analysts seem to agree that it’s business as usual.
Smart Africa TV: iROKING guns to become sound cloud for Africa
by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) In this video interview, Jason Njoku, CEO of iROKO (@itsiroking), talks about its online music platform will be making a transition in the next couple of years.
Smart Africa TV: Social messaging goes big in Nigeria
by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) Nigerian tech blogger Jesse Oguntimehin (@JesseOguns) talks about how Twitter came to grow so big in Nigeria and recent trends within it.
#trendMARK: Nigeria’s retail deathmatch
a trendMARK feature by Gugu Mtshali. Nigeria, with its burgeoning middle class of repatriated professionals, is poised to undergo a sea-change in Retail, as South African chains enter the high street, to compete with both the locals and online stores.
Smart Africa TV: Eryca Freemantle on beauty brands in Nigeria
by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) Eryca Freemantle talks about how the international makeup brands are investing in Africa.
News24′s leap into Kenya and Nigeria
by Gill Moodie (@GrubstreetSA) Type in www.news24.co.ke to your browser or www.news24.com.ng and you get a site that looks familiar to the South African eye: it has the colour palette and lay-out of our biggest news portal, News24, but look a bit closer and you see the content is different: about Kenya and Nigeria respectively.
These two sites are, in fact, News24’s great big leap into Africa although they have started modestly and without much fanfare so that they can learn about the two markets that are so different to South Africa’s.
You might also have noticed an isiZulu News24 (that you can go to from the English-language portal) and you get the picture: News24 – which so dominates the breaking-news scene in SA – is on the march, which is interesting considering that Iqbal Surve, Independent Newspaper’s proprietor-in-waiting, has also mentioned Africa and the vernacular markets as key growth areas.
Grubstreet spoke to News24 editor-in-chief Jannie Momberg, who is overseeing the move.