Thursday, June 5, 2014
VIDEO: Shatta Wale – We Rose Him, We Froze Him
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
#5 of 5 Richest Kings In Africa
Estimated net worth: $10 million
Source: Mining Equipment, Property, Jewelry
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is the King of Ghana’s gold-rich Ashanti kingdom, home to the country’s largest ethnic group, the Asantes. He ascended the throne in 1999 and serves as the political and spiritual head of the Asante people. After studying in the United Kingdom, Osei Tutu II worked briefly in private and public organizations in the United Kingdom and Canada before returning to Ghana in 1989 to set up Transpomech Ghana, a $12 million (sales) company that provides mining equipment to several large industrial companies in Ghana. The King also owns extensive real estate in Ghana and South Africa as well as a collection of valuable gold crown jewels.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
#10 of 11 World Most influential Women 2014
Joyce Banda failed in her attempt to win a second term in office after losing out in Malawi’s May presidential elections to Peter Mutharika, a brother to the country’s former president, Bingu wa Mutharika. It’s been a humiliating end to what could have easily been a glorious political career for Malawi’s first female president. Banda became Malawi’s ruler in 2012 after the death of Bingu wa Mutharika. She started off relatively well – selling off the presidential jet, announcing a cut to her salary, loosening foreign exchange controls and even devaluing the Kwacha at the recommendation of the International Monetary Fund. But she lost all goodwill in the wake of the infamous ‘Cashgate scandal’, in which millions of dollars were embezzled by top civil servants in one of the most brazen cases of corruption the country has witnessed in its recent history. Banda is the founder of the Joyce Banda Foundation International which supports projects aimed at empowering market women and providing orphans with access to education.
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