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Audiomack, a youth-driven music streaming platform, has announced a historic donation to the Slum2School initiative. In a press release announcement (via Business Insider), it was revealed that the company has partnered with the Slum2School initiative in Africa founded by Otto Orondaam. The Slum2School initiative is a volunteer-driven development organization that helps students in remote locations across Africa gain access to such things as quality education, entrepreneurial skills, and psychosocial support. Audiomack donated $5,000 worth of tablets and headsets to the organization, which turned out to be 40 learning sets for students. These sets will go to students in Nigeria, who were displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic, and who otherwise didn’t have access to the learning materials necessary to get the education they needed from home. “While the Coronavirus pandemic has impacted all aspects of our lives including the education sector, we recognize the increased gap on children...
Free streaming platform Audiomack recently opened an office in Lagos, Nigeria. The news arrived on Thursday (July 16) when Brian “Z” Zisook, VP of Content Operations & Artist Services, announced the expansion on Twitter. We opened an office in Lagos, Nigeria. 🎉 https://t.co/L4l36zhWyR — Z (@BrianZisook) July 16, 2020 According to Billboard , Audiomack currently serves 54 countries on the continent. In addition to the new office, three new executives join the team: Adeyemi Adetunji, Charlotte Bwana, and Olive Uche. The trio will head operations and commercial partnerships, work on business development and media partnerships, and manage content strategy respectively. “ A few months ago, @ade_aaa , @charlotte_bwana , and I embarked on the craziest adventure ever when we decided to bring Audiomack to Africa,” Uche tweeted. “We didn’t know what to expect or what kind of work it would require. But all we knew was it needed a home and Lagos was the best choice.” A few months ago, @ade_aaa...
Nigerian fintech and lending startup Lidya has announced the raise of an $8.3 million pre-Series B funding round in an effort to continue expanding operations for the company in Europe. According to TechCrunch, investment firm Alitheia Capital led the funding round via its uMunthu Fund, with participation from other investors such as Bamboo Capital Partners, Accion Venture Lab and Flourish Ventures. “Lidya is tackling the fundamental challenge of providing access to credit for dynamic small and growing businesses that otherwise have limited options for financing working capital to scale their businesses in Africa and Europe,” Alitheia Capital co-founder and managing director Tokunboh Ishmael said in a statement. “Alitheia Capital and Goodwell are pleased to be backing a team whose mission aligns with our objective of driving growth and social impact by enabling access and inclusion to finance and financial services.” In addition to its latest round, Lidya has raised a total of $16.5...
Four times the talent! A set of Ohio-based quadruplets are celebrating after graduating from Yale University. The Daily Mail is reporting the story of Aaron, Nick, Zach, and Nigel Wade, who all went to the storied Ivy League university and graduated not that long ago. While growing up, the Wades were known as “The Quads,” and it wasn’t until they got to Yale that they were finally able to “branch out” and strike on their own. “In high school, we all knew the same people. So in a sense, that didn’t allow us to divert as much as we might’ve wanted to,” said Nick. “But in college, because there are so many different types of people, and we had so many different diverse interests, I think we were able to carve our paths in our own way.” In fact, the quadruplets were so set on forging different paths that they didn’t even have any introductory classes together. One set of brothers had one class together throughout the four years of their matriculation. It wasn’t guaranteed that they’d be...
Dominique Kemp is yet another inspirational story and Black history in the making. The recent graduate of Indiana University is the first Black man in the university’s history to graduate with a Ph.D. in mathematics, Indiana Daily Student (IDS) reports. “I’m interested in problems that connect harmonic analysis with geometry. In particular, decoupling, restriction and Kakeya theory, and Böchner-Riesz are my current focus. I also enjoy exploring applications of decoupling inequalities to problems in number theory and geometry,” he said on his personal statement page. Kemp has co-written three academic papers, all in the field of discrete mathematics. He also got his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Stanford University in California, where he double-majored in physics and mathematics before fully concentrating on the latter from his junior year forward. The Lansing, MI native also tutored math students and played the piano while attending IU. And while his experiences have...
Shoprite is reportedly gearing up to sell all majority stake of its Nigerian subsidiary, and billionaire businessman Tayo Amusan is first in line to make the sale. According to reports, the retail giant is withdrawing from Nigeria and other markets due to currency devaluation, lower commodity prices, and high inflation hitting household incomes. As of now, Amusan and his company is currently the leading bidder for Retail Supermarkets Nigeria Limited — the country’s subsidiary of Shoprite International Limited. Amusan — who holds 25 years of experience doing business in Nigeria — is credited for building The Palms Shopping Mall in Lagos, Nigeria’s first mall of international standards that also houses a Shoprite store, back in 2004. He then replicated it in Enugu, Kwara, Ota, and Ibadan, Face2Face Africa reports. The outlet also reports that Shoprite has over 2,300 operating shops across Africa and launched in Lagos, Nigeria roughly 15 years ago with more than 25 retail stores in...