Seventy afrobeat fans will win a dream trip to Dubai courtesy of ‘Afrozons Dubai Sound off’, a premier, one-of-a-kind, travel experience, courtesy of Dubai Tourism and AfroZons Radio (USA). This was made possible by the partnership between AfroZons with Sheila O’ and Dubai Tourism. The Sound-off promotion which starts on October 1st, 2021, will culminate with a trip to Dubai for seventy (70) winners and celebrity hosts in March 2022. The winners of the giveaways will receive flight tickets, hotel accommodation, tours, airport transfers, and visas (where necessary). Mwalimu Rachel will be ..read more

Back-to-back1500m Olympic Champion Faith Kipyegon is the LG Sport’s Personality for the month of August. The mother-of-one successfully defended her 1500m gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games in a new Olympic record of 3:53.11, beating Great Britain’s Laura Muir and Dutch star Sifan Hassan. To win the monthly award, Kipyegon went home with a state-of-the-art LG Artificial Intelligence washing machine worth Ksh92,000 and a glittering trophy engraved with her name. Kipyegon, who was awarded by the LG Electronics Managing Director, Sa Nyoung Kim on Tuesday morning at her Global Sports Communication ..read more

Huawei, the leading tech giant, has announced the top 20 shortlisted apps for the Huawei HMS App Innovation Contest (Apps UP) flagship event. The 2021 edition of the competition received over 2,000 submissions, highlighting the interest from developers globally as well as regionally. This year’s 20 regional shortlisted apps represent some of the Middle East & Africa’s most driven developers and coders, contributing positively to the digital ecosystem by creating seamless, intelligent, innovative applications across multiple categories. The 20 top regional shortlisted apps were nominate ..read more

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went offline for users across the globe, the social media giant said on Monday, as it worked on restoring its services. The issue affecting the services could not immediately be determined, but the error message on the webpage of Facebook suggested a problem with domain same system (DNS) servers. DNS allows Web addresses to take users to their destinations. A similar outage at cloud company Akamai Technologies took down multiple websites in July. Security experts tracking the situation said the outage could have been triggered by a configuration error Security ..read more

EbonyLife and Sony Pictures Television have announced ÀLÓ, a brand-new writers initiative offering a unique platform for writers of African heritage. The word “ÀLÓ” is from the Yoruba language and translates as ‘once upon a time’. Just like with those words which have opened countless stories for hundreds of years, this is the beginning of an exciting journey to discover the best authentic African story ideas which will inspire and resonate with viewers across the globe. The ÀLÓ Initiative website will open for fixed periods beginning this Friday (24th) when writers can submit their telev ..read more

The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has announced the launch of the BAKE Awards 2021, followed by a call for submission of entries. The annual blogging competition, which is in its 9th year, celebrates and awards exceptional bloggers in each category.  Last year, the competition was unfortunately postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and eventually didn’t take place. The organisers have been receiving entries after calling for submissions on September 14, 2021. Thereafter, judges will decide on the best 5 nominees from the submitted blogs and which will then be availe ..read more

FIBA Africa Zone Five Most Valuable Player (MVP) Victoria Reynolds is the LG/SJAK Sports Personality of the Month for the month of July. This follows her incredible performance at the Zone Five Afrobasket qualifiers held on 12 to 17 July, 2021 where she helped the national women’s basketball team, Kenya Lionesses, clinch the zonal  title and consequently qualify for the Women’s Afrobasket to be held  on 17 to 26 September, 2021. Making her debut for Kenya Lionesses and playing in the zonal competition for the first time, Reynolds, a Master’s Degree scholar in the United States helped ..read more

The HUAWEI Apps UP 2021 contest is in full swing and all mobile App developers across the African continent are invited to showcase their best work. HUAWEI is reminding all App developer superstars that there are many reasons they might want to submit their Applications as entries to this year’s competition, besides winning a share of $200,000 in cash prizes of course. Firstly, by signing up, local App developers will compete against peers in the rest of Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and China for a share of the total US$1 million prize pool. Categories to enter ..read more

The inaugural Basketball Africa League (BAL)  season tipped off today at 4:00 p.m. CAT / 10 a.m. ET when Rwanda’s Patriots Basketball Club (BBC) took on Nigeria’s Rivers Hoopers at the Kigali Arena in Rwanda. Below are facts and figures about the BAL: •  1 – History will be made when the first BAL season tips off today and culminates with the crowning of the first BAL champion on Sunday, May 30. The BAL, a partnership between the NBA and FIBA, marks the NBA’s first collaboration to operate a league outside of North America. •  1 – Ben ..read more

James Mwaura won in the Kenyan Wings for Life World Run through the app held on Sunday at the Jaffreys sports club by clocking 53km in 3hours. James also emerged among the top 20 globally. This year’s run attracted the largest number of participants. 184,236 participants from 195 nations ran for those who can’t. 4.1m euros was raised for spinal cord research through entry fees and donations. The worldwide field of participants started at exactly the same time, 2:00pm Kenyan time, all connected virtually through the Wings for Life World Run App. That provided the basis for a special community e ..read more