Diamond Platnumz to Perform at Big Brother This Sunday
Tanzania’s Bongo Flava artiste, Naseeb Abdul popularly known as Diamond Platnumz will be performing Live at the Big Brother Eviction Show on Sunday May 27 at 20:00 CAT.
Popularly known as the king of Bongo Flava, Diamond became the first Tanzanian artist to be nominated for the MTV African Music Awards (MAMA) Brand New Act Award in 2010.
Diamond Platnumz also boasts of a number of Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro Music Awards and has been a sensation among both young and old fans for years now.
For the first time since Big Brother Africa StarGame kicked off 3 weeks ago, some members from the posh Upville house will be evicted or demoted to Downville.
The nominees for possible eviction are Lady May, Mampi or Maneta. Maneta previously escaped the first eviction from Downville during week one. Will she be lucky this time round?
We hope Diamond will put up an outstanding performance!
In other developments, Three Big brother housemates were caught Smoking in the Toilet yesterday!
It seems as though the Downville Diners don’t learn. Not long after Big Brother punished Seydou for microphone infringement by forcing him to find a needle in a haystack, some of them decided to smoke in the toilet.
Much as Big Brother’s House Rules state clearly that smoking in the House is prohibited, Head of House Keagan, Alex and Wati decided to act clever and hide in the toilet to steal a smoke.
Remember Big Brother can see everything as it happens in the house, but these members unfortunately forgot this fact. They were smoking at about midnight, a few moments after finishing the day’s task.
On their return to the bedroom, Edith was the first to blurb that there was a smoke smell but the culprits simply ignored her.
We can’t wait to know their next punishment!
Big Brother StarGame; Zainab shaves off her Hair
This 26 year old one time survivor in Big Brother StarGame Upville house never stops surprising housemates and the general public following this reality TV show.
Zainab escaped eviction last Sunday after having lead country votes, and her country mate Dalphin was evicted with 2 other housemates.
Lately, Zainab has cut off her hair and she looks so different!
After telling Barbz that she wanted to shave her head to become the perfect image for the Art Fusion Task, Sierra Leone’s Zainab went ahead shaved her head.
She really seems to be a serious decision maker, and she made a surprising one this time.
Last evening, Zainab employed forces including Prezzo, DKB and Roki to be a part of her ‘glam squad’. The guys all took turns helping out with chopping off her locks, as some of the girls in Upville house watched.
Maneta seemed taken aback by Zainab’s bold decision and asked the model why she was cutting her hair. Zainab revealed that she cuts her hair often and isn’t too addicted to hair extensions and weaves, like other girls. Barbz told the other girls the look is bound to give Zainab a leg up in the cutthroat modeling industry.
Did Zainab take the best decision? Will Biggie like her looks in the next presentation? We can only hope things don’t back fire.
What do you think about Zainab’s new look?
To take you back, Zainab is the same housemate that had a date with Biggie during week 1.
MTN: The First African Brand in BrandZ Top 100 Global Brands
MTN has become the first African brand to feature in BrandZ Top 100 coming in at position No 88 at a valuation of $9.2 billion as of 2012.
Developed by leading research agency, Millward Brown Optimor, BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands is a brand rankings that include consumer data as a component element in arriving at the brand value. The rankings survey over 150,000 people around the world.
Among the key highlights of this ranking is the rise of Africa as they state that “This year’s ranking highlights the progress of Africa’s economic development with the arrival of the first African brand in the Top 100 – South African mobile company MTN – No 88 at $9.2 billion. But it’s not just African brands that are thriving south of the Sahara. Around 40% of Guinness’s sales come from Africa, Airtel’s third quarter results showed a 16% increase in revenue in Africa. Similarly, Orange enjoyed rapid growth in Africa in 2011, while Walmart invested there with the acquisition of Massmart.”
Seven of the top 10 brands are technology or telecoms brands with Apple being the number one brand.
It is further emphasized that the The Future is Mobile: The future of the internet will be predominantly mobile rather than computer based. Mobile, to some extent, has been shielded from the recession as one of the few items consumers don’t want to give up or cut back on. The most valuable telecoms brand is AT&T worth $68.8 billion. Whilst the USA’s largest mobile service provider, Verizon, increased its brand value by 15% in the last year and is now worth $49.1 billion.
The Orange Africa Social Venture Prize 2012
As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility policy and its Innovation strategy, Orange has launched the Orange African Social Venture Prize a project that aims at promoting social innovation for development.
According to http://www.starafrica.com The African Social Venture Prize will reward three projects or enterprises addressing needs of the ‘bottom of pyramid’ market in Africa through technology. The 3 winners will receive a financial grant (25,000 Euro, 15,000 Euro, and 10,000 Euro) and they will also benefit from a 6-month mentoring by management experts.
The digital projects range from e-health and mobile banking to digital and mobile applications for education or agriculture.
Participants
Orange states that Participants, regardless of nationality, must be more than 21 years old, can either be students, entrepreneurs or companies in activity since June 2009. The businesses or projects submitted are required to target at least one of the African countries of Orange’s footprint. Their core business has to use technology in an innovative way to enhance living conditions of local populations.
The African countries of Orange’s footprint are Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Uganda, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Botswana.
Applications are open from: May 22nd to September 21st 2012.
Google+ Hangouts On Air: One reason to be on Google Plus
Google+, Google’s big push to social media has yet to gain fan boys in order to come anywhere close to taking away a share of Facebook’s supremacy. Apart from search related advantages brands may have with being actively on Google+, there is one good reason to be on Google+ and that reason is the Google+ Hangouts on Air.
Hangouts on air enable your brand to do live video broadcasts to unlimited viewers instantly and for free.
Originally Google+ Hangouts, allowed you to video chat with up to 9 different people at once and now Google+ Hangouts on Air, lets you broadcast to an unlimited audience. Google+ Hangouts is being rolled out around the world. By last check (May 2012), it was available to Kenya subscribers but not yet for Uganda though we hope it will be coming soon even to Ugandans.
Google+ Hangouts On Air
1. Hangouts On Air allow you to publicly broadcast your Hangouts on YouTube and your Google+ stream for anyone to watch. When broadcasting, your video will stream live on your YouTube account and on your Google+ stream. This means you can share your YouTube URL with anyone who wants to watch your broadcast live.
2. Live-Stream Your Hangout on Any Website. While in your Hangout, you can grab the YouTube video embed code and paste it into your blog or website to get more viewers and reach.
3. Incorporate Google+ Apps ; Right now, you can use a number of applications like Google Docs, SlideShare and Cacoo to help you collaborate or present your ideas in video. This gives you the same functionality of hosting your own webinar at no cost.