WRITING OPPORTUNITY!

WRITING OPPORTUNITY!

Deadline: 30 September 2022.

This is a hot opportunity for writers and visual artists.

Apply to join the two residency programmes established by the African Union and UNDP.

Be among ten talented pan-Africanist writers and visual artists who will help mark 20 years of the African Union.

Under the theme “Our Africa, Our Future,” two residency programmes powered by Africa No Filter will offer the space, time, resources, and support needed to produce a broad spectrum of fiction, narrative non-fiction, and poetry, as well as paintings, sculptures, drawings, photography, digital art, video and graffiti.

Residencies will take place in November 2022 and are open to African citizens from all member states of the African Union.

Visual artists will be hosted at the Loman Art Gallery in Dakar, Senegal, while the writers will be hosted at the Library of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD) in Accra, Ghana.

Apply click HERE.

Ghana Plans to Relax Telecom Licensing Rules to Lower Data Costs

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Ghana plans to broaden the scope of its telecommunications licenses so mobile operators can have more spectrum available for internet use, lowering data costs for consumers.

Ghana currently sells licenses that are spectrum-specific “and the technology is tied to the spectrum that you can use,” said Communications Minister-Designate Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, who took questions from lawmakers Monday as part of her reappointment process.

After the change, it won’t “matter whether its 2G, 3G or 4G spectrum that you have, you can use whatever available technology there is on (your available spectrum) to deliver the service that you want,” she said, referring to the technologies used for voice calls and Internet services. 

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