Another Awesome AfriCAN week 20180927

#Côted'Ivoire

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Congratulations to Abdou Kader Kone of Côte d’Ivoire who on Saturday emerged champion of Africa’s first ever Freestyle Football Championship concluded in Lagos, Nigeria. He wins $3,000 and a brand new salon car by GAC Motors, one of the major sponsors of the event.

As part of his reward, he will be flown to England to perform during the half-time of a Premier League match. [Source: New Telegraph Online]

#Kenya

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Congratulations to Kenyan journalist and TV presenter, Waihiga Mwaura, who has won this year's BBC World News Komla Dumor Award.

Waihiga Mwaura presents Kenya's most-watched evening news bulletin on Citizen TV.

As part of the prize, he will spend three months at the BBC in London and travel back to the continent to report on a story there. [Source BBC]

#SouthAfrica

Congratulations to Chef Martha Williams from the 5-star Plettenberg Hotel who has been invited to cook at the Cape Malay Food Festival at Vasco’s, Hilton in Abu Dhabi from 28 September to 6 October 2018! She will present her delicious South African recipes in her unique Cape Malay cooking style.

During this week she will present a special Cape Malay menu with meals like Bobotie, Tomato Bredie and Masala Fish to name a few. For desert she will present true South African treats like Malva Pudding and koeksisters. Martha will share her stories and tell visitors more about her love for the Cape Malay cuisine.

Williams said: "Food is an incredibly important part of Cape Malay culture. Our food reaches into a rich history and our culinary traditions have travelled down foodways stretching around the world.

#Uganda

Ugandans are finding creative solutions to the growing challenges of urbanisation. When Martin Agaba realised his urban farm had run out of space, he decided the solution was not to expand outwards but upwards. Kwagala farm, located on half an acre of land, is the brainchild of Diana Nambatya, a professor in public health, who began growing vegetables to save money on food in 2010.

After receiving two cows as a dowry, she decided to use their dung to generate biogas for her home. Her burgeoning urban farm soon attracted the attention of the neighbours, and in 2012 she started training women at a small demonstration centre.



Agaba trains children that live around Kwagala farm in how to grow strawberries, yams and spring onions. “We are motivating children to not rely just on boda bodas (motorcycle taxis – a popular form of informal employment) or TV but to do something creative every day.” [via The Guardian]

#AfricanDolls

I think this may be an American artists, but I do think these dolls can be profiled here.Check out these fabulous dolls. 

Unity is strength, division is weakness. ~ Swahili proverb