African Leadership Magazine Blog

Apple and Google are continuing to make good on their planned roll-out of exposure notification technology for helping with COVID-19 contact-tracing efforts. The two partners are introducing new tools that make it much easier for public health authorities to implement digital exposure notification, without the need for developing and maintaining their own individual apps. Apple makes this possible via the iOS 13.7 system update,...

According to Forbes, Tyler Perry is officially a billionaire. The details of his success are written in a long-form article entitled “From “Poor As Hell” to Billionaire: How Tyler Perry Changed Show Business Forever“. The filmmaker owns the entirety of his creative output, including more than 1,200 episodes of television, 22 feature films and at least two dozen stage plays, as well...

By Gbemileke Anthony I saw you several times, and I did not take note, Then you sought me out and made small talk. I did not think much about our boring, short and somewhat awkward conversations. But then, I began to look forward to your “How are you?” I began to expect a message from you at odd hours, I started checking out your profile, Trying...

I’ve been reading a script for a film about Sara Forbes Bonetta. If the name is unfamiliar, she lived a remarkable nineteenth-century English life and a movie should be made about her. She was born into Yoruba royalty north-east of Lagos in 1843 and named Aina. But five years later, her village was raided by those infamous female Amazons of...

We absolutely cannot wait for the third season of “The Voice Nigeria” after the show got positive reviews for the first and second season. This season of the show will be fully produced in Nigeria, and it promises to be bigger and better. Just so you know, online auditions for the third season has commenced. And according to the organisers,...