Nous sommes ravis d’annoncer que YouTube Premium et YouTube Music seront disponibles au Kenya, au Sénégal et au Ghana à partir du 5 décembre. Les utilisateurs dans ces pays auront déso...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2023/12/youtube-music-et-youtube-premium.html
Women account for 17% of business founders in Africa , yet they receive a fraction of available capital. In 2021, African startups raised over $5 billion in funding across various sectors, with j...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2023/02/google-for-startups-accelerator-africa.html
We believe in the power and importance of amplifying Black stories. From content centered around fashion and wellness, to videos about comedy and politics, Black creators and artists continue...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/11/meet-youtube-black-voices-creator.html
Editor's note: Ravi Naidoo, the creator of the Interactive Africa and Design Indaba, an annual three-day design conference held in Cape Town, South Africa, contributed today's post. He discuss...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/11/telling-powerful-african-stories.html
Sharing religious advice online comes with a lot of responsibility and that’s not something Nasiruddin Shuraim Abdulmumin takes lightly. The 27-year-old YouTuber and TedX speaker started a chan...
Over the next five years, 300 million people will come online in Africa. Many of them are young, creative, and entrepreneurial, ready to drive new innovation and opportunity across the region. Th...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/10/helping-african-job-seekers-prepare-for.html
Today, 72% of people surveyed in Kenya and Nigeria express concern about being exposed to false and misleading information. The interconnectedness of the spread of news and information today...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/10/supporting-african-news-organisations.html
Editor's note: The Honorable Minister of Information and Culture for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Lai Mohammed , authors this piece in which he talks about the new Osun Osogbo projec...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/10/preserving-one-of-nigerias-last-sacred.html
For many people, using your voice to dictate text messages, emails and other text-based communications is easier and more accessible than typing on a keyboard. Voice typing (i.e. using your voic...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/10/voice-typing-for-african-languages.html
Last year our CEO, Sundar Pichai, announced that Google would invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to support a range of initiatives, from improved connectivity to investment i...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/09/delivering-on-our-1b-commitment-in.html
The Covid-19 pandemic fundamentally shifted the way we live. From school life to working arrangements and even church, we adapted to the new normal the pandemic introduced. Stories and Songs , a ...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/10/using-praise-and-worship-to-connect.html
Editor's note: Our guest piece is by Mathabo Kunene, Executive Trustee of the Mazisi Kunene Foundation. She writes about the "I Am Because You Are: A Celebration of South African Creativity " ini...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/09/celebrating-south-africas-heritage.html
From its earliest days, YouTube opened the door for millions of people to share their voice, find a community, reach a global audience, and build a business. But we knew that was just the beg...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/09/made-on-youtube-supporting-next-wave-of.html
Africa is home to 17% of the world's population, yet fewer than 4% of clinical trials are conducted on the continent.. Melissa Bime, CEO of Cameroonian startup Infiuss Health , saw this as an o...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/09/meet-google-for-startups-black-founders.html
En Français African languages are underrepresented in digital communications because there are few open source Pan-African fonts that contain all of the letters and diacritics (or acce...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/08/giving-african-languages-more-latin.html
Language is what connects us to each other and the world around us. While Africa is home to a third of the world's languages, technology is not yet available for many of its languages. This is a...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/08/supporting-natural-language-processing.html
Editor's note: Towela 'Kams' Tembo, a photographer and African Leadership Academy alumnus, contributed today's post. She writes about the Redefining Womanhood exhibition on Google Arts and Cul...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/08/announcing-redefining-womanhood-online.html
En Français Editor’s note: H.E Albert Muchanga, African Union Commissioner for Economic Development, Trade, Tourism, Industry, and Minerals, contributed today's piece. He writes about a n...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/08/supporting-small-businesses-and-youth.html
We announced the third GNI Middle East, Turkey and Africa Innovation Challenge in February, as part of our ongoing commitment to spur innovation in news and journalism throughout the globe, as w...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/07/innovation-success-in-middle-east.html
Today, YouTube Music is glad to introduce the Foundry Class of 2022, with 30 new artists joining our global artist development program. Since its beginnings – in 2015 as a workshop series and ...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/07/meet-youtube-music-foundry-class-of-2022.html
Despite growing up in the Catholic faith, Gogo Nobelungu was always drawn to African spirituality. With a family background of healers who practised in different lineages, Gogo - who also goes ...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/07/how-gen-z-connects-with-their-faith-and.html
While incarcerated at Langata Women’s Prison in Kenya, I discovered a craft which would change my life forever. I had been in prison since 2009 where I was serving time for robbery. I missed my...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/06/supporting-marginalised-peoples-craft.html
On 27 June, the world marks MICRO-, SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES DAY . It's a day worth celebrating, particularly in Africa, where small companies are the main drivers of jobs and econom...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/06/google-helps-african-smbs-embrace.html
When we launched our first African AI research centre in Ghana in 2018 , we did so with the aim of fostering the continent’s growing capabilities in the field, to deliver innovative solutio...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/05/google-research-enhances-its-ai-growth.html
When you think of pyramids does your mind wander to the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt or the Mayan Temples of Guatemala? Great civilizations built each of these pyramids and inscribed their stories ...
http://africa.googleblog.com/2022/05/step-into-meroe-pyramids-with-google.html