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The Africa Soft Power Series to Hold Sessions on Africa's Creative Industries


The 2021 Africa Soft Power Series officially launched last week, with speakers including Ambassador Rama Yade (Director, Atlantic Council’s Africa Center and Former French Minister of State for Human Rights), Mona Eltahawy (Award-winning Journalist, Author, and Commentator &International Lecturer), and more.
This week, the series continues with nind phenomenal sessions taking place between Tuesday, May 11 to Saturday, May 25.
On Tuesday Siba Mtongana, Culinary phenomenon, Multi-award-winning celebrity chef, Author & Founder, The Siba Co.; Marc Kwesi Farell, Founder & CEO, Ten To One Rum & previously youngest VP at Starbucks and others on ‘Stirring The Pot: The Globalisation of African Cuisine And The Stories Within The Flavours’, while Thebe Ikalafeng, award-winning Founder & Group CEO, Brand Leadership Group, Moky Makura, Executive Director, Africa No Filter and Wikimedia Foundation’s Khanyi Mpumlwana will join a separate panel on presenting positive A ....

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ANALYSIS: What America's next pandemic year will look like

It s been nearly a year since the US recorded its first known COVID death, at a long-term care facility in Washington state. In hindsight, we d learn there had been COVID deaths earlier in February and that the pandemic was already seeping through the population by the time we began taking drastic measures to slow it. ....

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What Matters: What America's next pandemic year will look like

It's been nearly a year since the US recorded its first known Covid death, at a long-term care facility in Washington state. In hindsight, we'd learn there had been Covid deaths here earlier in February and that the pandemic was already seeping through the population by the time we began taking drastic measures to slow it. ....

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Black women executives making history in c-suite offer career advice to those following in their footsteps


Business
by: Chauncey Alcorn, CNN Business
Posted:
Feb 20, 2021 / 08:32 PM EST
(CNN) Kamala Harris isn’t the only Black woman making history in 2021.
The January 20 swearing-in of the nation’s first woman, Black and southeast Asian vice president came at a pivotal moment for Black women in the business world, which up until recently has failed miserably to increase the number of Black executives male and female in its ranks.
In 2018, only 3.3% of all US corporate executive and senior leadership positions were filled by Black people. Not much has changed since then, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
To date, there have been only 19 Black CEOs  17 men and two women in the entire history of the list, which was first published in Fortune magazine in 1955. Incoming Walgreen’s CEO Rosalind Brewer will be added on March 15, when she becomes just the third Black woman to serve as a Fortune 500 CEO. ....

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