Tag Archives: Africa
1 min. with a Superhero: Geoff Brink, Unicycle-riding through South Africa
Today we’re chatting with Geoff Brink, who happens to be riding from Durban to Cape Town on a unicycle for something called the “Heart & Sole” tour. I’ve known Geoff for almost 20 years, and can confidently say if anyone can do this, Geoff can. Geoff’s will travel across South Africa in order to raise [...]
1 min. with a Superhero: Marcel Oudejans, Magician and Infotainer
Today, we’re chatting to Marcel Oudejans, one of the busiest and most entertaining corporate infotainment and presentation specialists in Southern Africa. He has been performing professionally for over 10 years and has recently published his first book “The Serious Business Owners Guide to Creating Customers for Life”.
Marcel, most of us know you as a [...]
A uniquely African advertising campaign
A question that is often asked in marketing circles is: “Where is the great African ad-work?” In other words, many marketers believe there is a dearth of authentically African advertising for Africans, by Africans. Too many campaigns emulate American and European creative work, and is executed by teams more white than the Lions Super 14 [...]
…and on our doorstop.
Yesterday was an inspiring day for Africa with one of our kin being sworn in as President of the Free World. I felt all warm and fuzzy inside watching Obama stepping up.
I felt proud to be African.
…but then, I remembered that Zimbabwe is also in Africa.
[Thanks Chris for the pics]
Fred Roed is the marketing guy [...]
Doing business in Zimbabwe
Writing a cheque in Zimbabwe requires a dictionary on-hand for a word that most of us have never had to spell before – “quadrillion”.
It makes the “only” look a bit out of place.
Andrew Smith is the pedantic systems guy behind Live Alchemy, a SA e-commerce company. Andrew writes for Ideate in an attempt to make [...]
