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07/29/2025

What began as a quiet shift is becoming a full-blown cultural current.
This week, multi-platinum artist and global icon officially became a citizen of Benin 🇧🇯, part of a rising wave of Black diasporans seeking thier roots.

Ciara’s new citizenship comes under Benin’s progressive law, which allows descendants of enslaved Africans to reclaim citizenship as a form of historical redress. This powerful gesture places among a few African nations actively rethinking their relationship with the global Black diaspora.

Ciara now joins the ranks of a growing list:

🔸 Tiffany Haddish, who gained Eritrean citizenship in 2019 following her father’s passing.
🔸 Stevie Wonder, who accepted Ghanaian citizenship in 2024, calling it a “spiritual return.”
🔸 Samuel L. Jackson and Ludacris, both now citizens of Gabon

📣 As the conversation around repatriation, heritage, and reparative citizenship grows louder, these actions speak volumes.

07/25/2025

What if the future of artificial intelligence wasn’t being built in Silicon Valley — but in Africa?

In a bold partnership with American tech company NVIDIA , Zimbabwe’s wealthiest man and a visionary tech entrepreneur, has just launched what is being called Africa’s first AI factory.

This month, Cassava Technologies, Masiyiwa’s pan-African tech firm, officially began deploying NVIDIA’s cutting-edge GPU infrastructure in South Africa, the first phase of a groundbreaking $720 million investment. Over 12,000 GPUs will follow across Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco, and Egypt, laying the groundwork for a new era of African-led AI innovation.

🌍 “The future comes from young people building apps and solutions every day,” Masiyiwa said recently at the Global AI Summit in Kigali. “They are the digital natives. We just have to give them the ability to do what they do best.”

This Pan-African incubator of ideas, providing researchers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses the same digital firepower available to the world’s tech giants.

07/19/2025

🎭✨ At just 29, Ayo Edebiri has rewritten Emmy history—becoming the youngest Black woman to earn three acting nominations and the first ever nominated in both acting and directing comedy categories for her standout episode “Napkins” on The Bear.

The actress, born to a Barbadian mother and a Nigerian father is the first to balance performance and direction in comedy in one Awards cycle, a multi-hyphenate move long overdue.

As both a compelling actor and storyteller, Ayo brings layered, nuanced perspectives center stage. Her ascent—from writing skits at NYU and voicing in Big Mouth to Emmy battlefield—charts a course for emerging creators of color.

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07/16/2025

After Tiwa Savage ’s bold move into cinema, it’s now Burna Boy's turn to make the crossover from music to film.🎤➡️🎬

The Nigerian megastar, fresh off the release of his new album No Sign of Weakness just a week ago, is bringing his global influence to the big screen with 3 Cold Dishes. 🥶🍽️

The teaser, released at the end of June, already hints at a gripping African thriller with layered storytelling and a Pan-African cast. With this cinematic experience set to premiere in early November across English-speaking countries 🇳🇬🇬🇭🇱🇷🇰🇪 and French-speaking nations like Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮, Senegal 🇸🇳, Benin 🇧🇯, Togo 🇹🇬, and the DRC 🇨🇩, Burna Boy’s entry into cinema amplifies African narratives on a global stage, proving yet again that the continent’s stories are as powerful as its music.

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07/11/2025

It’s a movement spreading fast across social media. 🔥 , the Ghanaian-British artist behind hits like and Million Pound Girl, has returned with a powerful new project: . Named after the legendary West African king, this album channels centuries of pride and untold stories into a cultural force.

But Fuse isn’t stopping at music. This week, he turned London’s streets into a stage with an impromptu street concert, capturing the vibrancy of African rhythms and the energy of a rising generation. 🎤🇬🇭 This weekend, all eyes are on , where Fuse is filming another electrifying street performance. His mission? To bring African culture into the heart of global cities, celebrating its beauty and sparking curiosity about its lost histories.

In a recent London TV interview, the singer explained how he's going beyond music with this new album. 🖤✨
Fuse has also developed a cultural and educational app dedicated to sharing Africa’s rich but often overlooked histories. From ancient kingdoms to scientific innovations, the app is designed to inspire the next generation with knowledge and pride. 📱🌍

With Soundiata, Fuse ODG isn’t just dropping tracks, he’s planting seeds. It’s a call for Africans and the diaspora to reconnect, reclaim, and redefine what it means to be African in the modern world.

This is what champions: stories that elevate, educate, and empower.

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07/08/2025

When we talk about Black stories on screen, too often the lens zooms in on suffering. Washington Black, Hulu’s new series based on ’s acclaimed novel, dares to flip the script. Instead of centering pain, it centers possibility.

The story follows “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy who escapes enslavement on a Barbados plantation and embarks on a globe-spanning adventure filled with wonder, science, love, and invention. From the Caribbean to the Arctic, we witness a young Black boy, first vulnerable, then brilliant, discovering his place in a world that wasn’t designed for him to dream.

For Sterling K. Brown, one of the series’ executive producers and cast members, this was precisely the point.
“There’s more to us than just our pain. This is about joy, imagination, and daring to dream up a new world.”

In this bold adaptation, the showrunner Selwyn Seyfu Hinds and his team invite us to rethink how Black lives are depicted in period dramas. Wash’s story isn’t sanitized—it acknowledges the horrors of slavery, but it also makes space for what rarely gets shown: Black genius, love, adventure.

With stunning visuals shot across Mexico and Iceland and a cast including Jr., , and , Washington Black is as much about aesthetic brilliance as it is about narrative power.

Another proof that our stories are vibrant and global.

📺 Washington Black is streaming on Hulu, July 23.

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06/30/2025

🌍💡 “Africa’s wealth is not just in its natural resources. It’s in the creativity, energy, and enterprise of its people.” Dr. Akinwumi Adesina
At Africa Prime, we know this to be true. The continent is often seen through the lens of what lies beneath the ground, oil, gold, diamonds. But the most valuable resource has always been what stands above the ground: Africans themselves.

From the fashion houses of Lagos to the tech labs in Nairobi, from music studios in to agri-innovation hubs in , African creativity is not emerging.🌍🎶💼

These words come from Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, an economist and development visionary from Nigeria. Currently President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and former Minister of Agriculture in , he’s widely respected for championing inclusive growth, food security, and youth entrepreneurship across the continent.

His leadership reminds us that Africa’s greatest capital is human capital. ✨

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06/27/2025

🏀 From Uncertainty to NBA Glory: 's Journey Is Africa’s Story 🌍✨
Tears flowed when Khaman Maluach heard his name called as the 10th overall pick in the 2025 Draft. Drafted by the Phoenix Suns, the 18-year-old from South Sudan stood tall, literally and symbolically, when he said:

"I’m here representing the whole continent. Leaving Africa, I had the whole Africa to my back, giving hopes to young kids and the next generation of African basketball." 🖤🏀

In an age when politics threaten mobility and visibility, Maluach’s presence in the is even more powerful.
Just two months ago, feared deportation from the U.S. after a proposed visa ban targeting South Sudanese nationals. His status was uncertain, his future at risk. But today, he’s poised to sign a $27.4 million deal with one of the NBA’s most legendary franchises.

And to think, he didn’t pick up a basketball until he was 13.

A child refugee in , a stranger once told him, “You should play basketball. In a few years, you’ll be great.” That chance encounter sparked a .

Now 7ft 2, Maluach becomes a .

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06/19/2025

🌍 Angola hosts the 17th U.S.–Africa Business Summit (June 22–25). If done right, this spotlighting infrastructure corridors, clean energy projects, digital ecosystems, and healthcare investments, could redefine U.S.–Africa ties for decades.

For years, U.S.–Africa engagement has leaned heavily on aid and assistance. But this summit signals a clear pivot toward trade, , and mutual economic growth, a shift long overdue.

🎯The event gathers 1,500+ delegates, heads of state, ministers, U.S. trade officials, global CEOs, to chart a future oriented around market-driven cooperation in infrastructure, energy, healthcare, digital tech, agribusiness, and sustainable finance.

U.S. evolution from aid-based foreign policy under Trump (who threatened to end AGOA) to commercial diplomacy is a game-changer. It's about building equal partnerships, not donor–recipient dynamics.

✨ Angola Leads the Charge
As host and Chair of the African Union, Angola isn’t just playing receiver, it’s steering the agenda. With reforms and a national trade‑investment framework, it presents models like the Lobito Corridor, a future logistics hub connecting central Africa to the Atlantic, as proof of concept.

Angola’s oil wealth is well-known, but the summit amplifies its agriculture, digital infrastructure, energy transition, and minerals sectors, areas primed for investment.

⚠️ Heading Into a -Influenced Era
The looming return of “America First” policies could reshape future backing. This summit's message must now include safeguards and commercial confidence in U.S.–Africa investments.

A purely aid‑centric approach won’t cut it anymore. Africa needs secure, market‑driven partnerships that align with the vision of and long-term industrial growth.

06/16/2025

is already a vibrant AI frontier. Governments, innovators, and investors are leveraging cutting-edge tech to transform economies.

1️⃣ Tunisia: National strategy meets agri‑health innovation

🇹🇳 Tunisia is positioned in the top 5 in Africa, and first in the Maghreb, for AI adoption. Their 2025 national AI strategy prioritizes healthcare, education, agriculture, transport, and environmental sustainability. Concrete use‑cases include: remote medical diagnostics via deep‑learning image analysis, agritech drones optimizing irrigation and crop health with 30% → 50% water savings, and digital tourism tools through smart booking and VR guides.

2️⃣ Startup power: InstaDeep’s global leap

Founded in 2014, InstaDeep—a Tunisian AI firm—raised €100M, had offices across Africa and Europe, and was acquired by BioNTech in 2023 for €636M. It’s now developing AI solutions for agriculture (with Syngenta), chip‑design (with Google), and runs the region’s largest MENA hackathon.

3️⃣ Uganda: Samsung cultivates digital youth

The Samsung Innovation Campus in Kampala is training young Africans in coding, AI, and data science—equipping them for a digitally driven economy. This builds talent pipelines for sectors like fintech, agri‑tech, health-tech, and creative media.

4️⃣ South Africa: Grassroots digital skills via WeThinkCode

In Johannesburg, WeThinkCode uses AI‑powered platforms to teach under‑represented youth coding — bridging the digital divide and creating workforce-ready talent.

These initiatives show how AI investment in Africa isn’t abstract—it’s tactical economic development:

- Governments (like Tunisia) are building sovereign digital infrastructures.

- Startups (InstaDeep) create high-value IP, nurture talent, and anchor tech ecosystems.

- Corporate and educational programs (Samsung, WeThinkCode) enable digital inclusion and forklift-scale skills development.

🚀 For strategic investors and African diasporas, AI is a catalyst for scalable growth, sustainable agriculture, advanced healthcare, and inclusive opportunity. Africa is not catching up but racing ahead.

06/09/2025

At just 21 years old, has become the first American woman since in 2015 to win the French Open, defeating world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in a thrilling final: 6-7, 6-2, 6-4.

From her breakout moment at age 15, when she stunned the world by beating at Wimbledon, to her U.S. Open title in 2023, and now this victory on the clay courts of Paris, Gauff’s journey is a story of growth and power. 🎯

“Before matches, I tell myself: I’m a warrior, and I can do anything,” she recently shared.

The win against Venus Williams was a turning point that launched her into the global spotlight and made her one of the most talked-about young athletes in the world. Now, shapes the world stage beyond tennis and shows the next generation what’s possible.

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06/03/2025

Ghana 🇬🇭 and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) 🇦🇪 have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a technology and innovation hub 💡 aimed at accelerating Ghana’s digital transformation 💻 and positioning the country as a regional leader in artificial intelligence (AI) 🤖 and emerging technologies 🚀.

The initiative, named the “Ghana-UAE Innovations and Technology Hub”, is expected to attract over 11,000 global technology firms 🌍, including global tech giants like Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, IBM, and Alphabet seeking to expand their presence in the country and across the continent 📡.

The companies under the PCFC umbrella will serve as a regional base for AI engineering, business process outsourcing (BPO), knowledge process outsourcing (KPO), and data generation for Africa-focused machine learning 📊🧠.

The PCFC will fully fund 💰 the first phase of the project in collaboration with leading AI firms involved in Dubai’s AI transformation 🏙️.

This phase will include the development of a 25 square kilometre (Km²) site in Ningo-Prampram 🏗️, with the Ghanaian government providing the land for the initiative 🌱.

Ghana has earned a growing reputation as one of Africa’s emerging tech hubs 🌐, driven by proactive government policies, vibrant startup activity 🚀, and increasing international interest 📈.

This partnership between Ghana and the UAE exemplifies the potential of strategic collaborations in driving technological advancement and economic growth across Africa 🌍.