Blog | AfricaOracle https://africaoracle.com Connecting and celebrating Africa and its diaspora Wed, 02 Jun 2021 22:31:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Levelling The Playing Field: A Case for Economic Empowerment https://africaoracle.com/levelling-the-playing-field-a-case-for-economic-empowerment/ https://africaoracle.com/levelling-the-playing-field-a-case-for-economic-empowerment/#respond Sun, 28 Jun 2020 19:26:37 +0000 https://africaoracle.com/?p=37927 How relevant are race and ethnicity when it comes to accessing finance?

The killing of African-American George Floyd sparked protests across the word, the rise of the Black Matters Movement and the first ever Black Pound in the UK.  These events have given black and ethnic minorities a voice and a realisation that whilst that protests are a rallying call for an end to police violence, there is a need to capitalise on this momentum to bring about socio-economic benefits and equity for for black and other minority ethnic communities. Read the whole post

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When virtual reality (VR) tech first emerged, experts were concerned that its advancement could cause major economic pitfalls for the travel industry. Users could explore snow-capped peaks of the Alps or the Amazonian rain forest without ever leaving their homes. And yes, VR capabilities have grown in leaps and […]

So, what does the tide of AR integration mean for you?

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The post The African Train Ride Voted as the Best first appeared on AfricaOracle.]]> https://africaoracle.com/post-7/feed/ 0 Best African Places to Visit in 2020 https://africaoracle.com/best_african_places_to_visit_in_2020/ https://africaoracle.com/best_african_places_to_visit_in_2020/#respond Tue, 03 Dec 2019 02:09:26 +0000 https://africaoracle.com/?p=24068 It’s always an exciting time when we put together our list of destinations for the new year. CN Traveller’s  list of the best places to go in 2020 looked for the big reasons to visit destinations and of the list of 20 are 3 African destinations: Botswana’s Makgadikgadi salt pans (the remains of an ancient super-lake—a salt-encrusted expanse covering more than 6,200 square miles of the Kalahari Desert); Rwanda has made exceptional strides in building itself into a place that celebrates and protects its natural resources with the development of its fourth national park, Gishwati Mukura, set to open next year and Morocco which has been viewed as a long weekend destination for a while now and the momentum isn’t slowing down.  Read the whole post

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What is Immersive Technology? Immersive Technology is any technology that extends reality or creates a new reality by leveraging the 360 space. Because Immersive Technology leverages the 360 space/sphere, users can look in any direction and see content. Some types of Immersive Technology extend reality by overlaying digital images […]

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The post WTM 2019 first appeared on AfricaOracle.]]> https://africaoracle.com/wtm-2019/feed/ 0 Life of Survival: Celebrating Writer Buchi Emecheta’s 75th Birthday https://africaoracle.com/life-of-survival-celebrating-writer-buchi-emechetas-75th-birthday/ https://africaoracle.com/life-of-survival-celebrating-writer-buchi-emechetas-75th-birthday/#respond Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:36:12 +0000 https://africaoracle.com/?p=19577 Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta is the latest author to be celebrated as part of a Google Doodle on what would have been the 75th Birthday on 21st July 2019.   Buchi is a celebrated writer in both the UK and Nigeria who worked towards the liberation of women through her writing about her life as an immigrant single mother living in London. Read the whole post

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With glorious, uninterrupted sunshine and hot days spent splashing in the cooling waters of the Mediterranean, laid-back Tunis gets a huge jolt of energy in summer.  Tunisia is blessed with more than 1000km of beautiful coastline, a decent section of which is easily accessible from Tunis.

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