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CALLING FOR EARLY-STAGE STARTUPS LOOKING TO RAISE BETWEEN $150K AND $1M.

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We’re looking for 10 innovative early-stage startups to showcase their business to the world. You are based in Africa and your tech-enabled solution is already on the market. It starts to show some traction and you have expansion plans in mind? Don’t miss out on this opportunity to raise in the range of $150K and $1M and apply right here right now! VC4A Venture Showcase Seed is the sister program of the annual VC4A Venture Showcase Serie A. Did you know that between 2017-2019, we selected 60 scale-ups from across the continent as part of 4 showcase programs, resulting in a number of Series A deals totaling over $100M? Building on this success, the ‘VC4A Venture Showcase – Seed’ – in collaboration with AWS Activate, AfriLabs and ABAN – is a central component of our efforts to support investors connecting with early-stage ventures. This is an exclusive opportunity to introduce your company at once to everyone who’s anyone in Africa’s early-stage investment space.   WHAT WE OFFER

Singer Teyana Taylor Gives Birth In Her Bathroom Again

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Teyana Taylor and husband Iman Shumpert have welcomed a second child born in their bathroom without the assistance of a hospital. The singer and the basketball player made headlines in 2015 when their first daughter, Iman Tayla Shumpert Jr., who is called "Junie," made a surprise entrance into the world in the couple's home bathroom with her proud dad delivering her. Appropriately enough on Labor Day, Shumpert  posted on his verified Instagram account  that "At 3:28 am on Sept 6th 2020 Rue Rose decided that the baby shower thrown for her and mommy was too lit." "She didn't make the party but she managed to make the next day her birthdate!!!," he wrote in the caption of a video of their new addition. "Now...when we buy homes, we always find a bathroom with great energy... but not in a million years would you be able to tell me we'd deliver both of our daughters in a bathroom without the assistance of a hospital!" Shumpert, who last yea

Amerado's Box Of Memories Has Got A Delightful Highlife Tune

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Amerado took a break from his Yeete Nsem epsiodes which usually drop on Fridays, to make way for his new single, Box of Memories. Amerado has proven that he is not only good putting trending issues together but can really sit, to write amazing songs too. No doubt about it, Amerado is a super talented artist. We saw how massive he came out with “Yete Nsem”, featuring Ghana’s King of GH Comedy, Clemento Suarez. The two did amazingly well on the “Yete Nsem” series. Now Amerado hits the net with another beautiful tune #BoxofMemories His Box of Memories took a new turn. I expected an emotional song because of the title but he twisted it into a create artefact. We all know Amerado as a rapper but he went full singing mode on this song! The best part was how much it sounded like an oldies highlife song fused with the rhythm you’d expect on a reggae song.  This is the kind of songs parents will approve of because they used to dance with such delightful tunes in the old days. I am fully sur

Olukaline: The New Face of GH Comedy

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Prince Asamoah Yeboah, popular known as Olukaline based on his recent short comedy series “Tales of Olukaline” has taking over the net by storm. His acting talent is indeed a gift from God, one that really put smiles on the face of sad souls. If we are looking for the best doctors in Ghana, Olukaline is no exception. As the saying goes: Laughter is medicine, and he will really give you the best prescription to cure your sorrows really fast. He always know the best time to crack a joke and the best comic art to put out there. Whoever has watched his comic videos will attest to the fact that Prince a.k.a Olukaline is really a comedian that we should look out for. He holds a unique style of acting and he can also mimic the way others do their things. He stormed Tiktok recently and within few weeks, he is pulling more followers than you can imagine. His Tiktok videos were liked by famous comedians like: Foster Romanus and Funny Face.

Akon Secures Funding To Start City In Senegal

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US R&B singer Akon, who has been talking since 2018 about building a new city in Senegal, said at a press conference on Monday that construction work will start next year. He said that the identities of the investors cannot be revealed but that a third of the $6bn (£5bn) funding had been secured. The architect behind the city, Hussein Bakri, said the city's population would eventually reach 300,000. Akon, whose real name is Alioune Badara Thiam, marketed the city directly to African Americans. He explained he had "ran into a lot of African-Americans that didn’t really understand their culture... So I wanted to build a city or a project like this that will give them the motivation to know that there is a home back home," AFP news agency quotes the singer, who was born in the US to Senegalese parents, as saying. "As you come in from America, or Europe or anywhere in the diaspora, and you feel like you want to visit Africa, we want Senegal to be your first

French Woman Arrested In India For Naked Video

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A French woman has been arrested in India for making a video of herself naked on a sacred bridge in the northern city of Rishikesh. The video, shot on the Lakshman Jhula bridge, was posted on social media. The woman faces charges under India's internet law, and could be sentenced to up to three years in prison if found guilty, AFP news agency reports. The suspension bridge over the Ganges river is a holy site and a popular spot for tourists. The woman, who has since been released on bail, told police the video was made to promote her jewellery business. "Maybe in France these things are not considered objectionable. But Rishikesh is a holy place and the Lakshman Jhula is the place where [Hindu gods] Ram, his brother Lakshman and wife Sita crossed the Ganges," RK Saklani, head of the police station where the woman was taken, told AFP. The woman, who has not been officially identified, was arrested on Thursday after police were alerted to the footage. "Du

Night Vision Production Audition Call

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Night Vision Production is casting young talents for it's upcoming Campus TV Series Night Vision Production is coming up with a mind blowing campus TV series that will hit the screens latest by next year.....  Are you 18 years and above, do you have dreams of becoming a movie star, then the opportunity has presented itself to movie acting lovers. This is the time to show the world what you've got by taking part in the next TV Series. The audition details are as follows: Audition will take place at the Royal Crown Hotel, Ashaley Botwe. Date is 20th September 2020... Time will be 10:00am - 12:00pm. You are required to come along with a passport picture. For more information and clarity, call: 0547873642/ 0279329166.  Night Vision Production is the best place to be in your acting career, the only place that will give you not just national recognition but an international recognition. The directors and producers of this production aims to push young talents to be very successfu

The World's Most Expensive Sheep Has Just Been Purchased for $490,000

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A sheep sold for a record 350,000 guineas -- or around $490,000 in American money -- at an auction in Scotland this week. The lamb, named Double Diamond, had generated buzz before the Scottish National Texel sale in Lanark started, according to a  news release from the Texel Sheep Society.  Bidding started at 10000 guineas (about but $13,000). A bidding war drove up the price until an agreement was reached for the sheep to be shared between three farms. "It's just like every other business -- horse racing or the cattle business," Jeff Aiken, one of the winning bidders, told  The Guardian . "Every once in a while something special comes along and yesterday an extra special Texel turned up. Everyone wanted a piece of it." Texel sheep originated in Holland and are a butcher favorite, according to the Texel Sheep Society. It is traditional for livestock to be sold in guineas at auction in the United Kingdom, and one guinea translates to about $1.40 American dollars.

Lionel Messi: Man City, PSG, Juventus - what is the latest transfer situation?

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If we are talking percentages then Manchester City are very much in the driving seat to be Lionel Messi's next club. Paris St-Germain have been in touch with Messi's dad, his agent, again about the possibility of signing the Barcelona captain, who  submitted a transfer request on Tuesday. And, perhaps most intriguingly of all, Juventus are now looking at the hugely unlikely scenario of organising some very daring financial deals and sponsorships that could see Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo playing together for the first time. What a mouth-watering prospect that would be. But it is also close to impossible. At the end of a week of countless headlines and rumours, there are two things we now definitely know above anything else, namely that Messi very much wants to leave Barcelona and Barcelona would very much like him to stay. That is the simple analysis of what promises to become an even more complicated scenario than it already is. And the reason for that is that both sides are A

Black Panther Star Chadwick Boseman Dies of Cancer Aged 43

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  US actor Chadwick Boseman, best known for playing Black Panther in the hit Marvel superhero franchise, has died of cancer aged 43. He died at home in Los Angeles with his wife and family by his side, a statement posted on social media said. Boseman was diagnosed with colon cancer four years ago but had not made the information public. The news has left fans and the film world stunned. Get Out director Jordan Peele, said it was "a crushing blow". "A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much," his family said in the statement. "From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and several more - all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy. It was the honor of his career to bring King T'Challa to life in Black Panther." Image Copyright @chadwickboseman @CHADWICKBOSEMAN Boseman came to prominence playing real-life figures - bas