Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

 Professor of Contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostal-Charismatic Studies/Dean of Graduate Studies, Trinity Theological Seminary,  Accra, Ghana

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Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa (ASRSA)

Academic association

Location: University of South Africa, South Africa

Contact: Email: asrsagroup@gmail.com ‍

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ASRSA is a not-for-profit academic association which is independent of the religions it and its members study. Among others, the association aims to promote the scholarly study of the religions of Southern Africa and the wider world.

Association of Nigerian Authors

Professional Association

Abuja, Nigeria

Contact:+234 803 341 5438

info.ananigeria@yahoo.com

ananigeria.org

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The Association of Nigerian Authors was founded on the 27th June, 1981, during a conference convened by the late Professor Chinua Achebe. Its aims and objectives include encouraging and promoting Nigerian literature.

Asuming, Patrick Opoku, Lotus Gyamfuah Osei-Agyei, and Jabir Ibrahim Mohammed. "Financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa: Recent trends and determinants." Journal of African Business 20, no. 1 (2019): 112-134.

The paper conducts a comparative analysis of financial inclusion in 31 Sub-Saharan African countries using data from the global Findex database. The authors find that while the aggregate level of financial inclusion has increased significantly between 2011 and 2014, there are variations in both the level and rates of improvement among the countries. They also find that individual-level covariates (age, education, gender and wealth), macroeconomic variables (growth rate of GDP and presence of financial institutions) and Business Freedom are significant predictors of financial inclusion. Their findings, according to them suggest that financial inclusion policies should target key populations like women and young people.

Source: Adapted from article's abstract

Andrews Atta-Asamoah

Program Head, Institute for Security Studies

Sector:

NGO

Audius Mutawarira

Singer-songwriter/Record producer

Perth, Australia

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Austen, Ralph A., and Mahir Saul, eds. Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010.

African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in 1969the biennial Festival panAfricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou(FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less expensive video cameras. These “Nollywood” films, so named because many originate in southern Nigeria, are a thriving industry dominating the world of African cinema. Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century is the first book to bring together a set of essays offering a comparison of these two main African cinema modes.

[Source: Ohio University Press].

Awilo Longomba

Musician

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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