{"id":7376,"date":"2023-08-08T22:18:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T22:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.info\/?p=7376\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:40:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:40:55","slug":"risingafrica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/risingafrica\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Africa : changing the narrative about Africa on the media landscape."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>  <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Africa\u2019s image in the media is often distorted, one-dimensional view &#8211; that sees the continent only through a prism of war, disease, poverty, starvation and corruption. This \u2018single story\u2019 (The failure to represent Africa fairly) has had massive effect on many African youth. \u00a0Nobody is pretending that Africa&#8217;s many serious problems should be played down or ignored, but the rest of the world, and Africans themselves, need to hear the good news stories as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Africans in particular need to take ownership of the positive narrative to become ambassadors for positive change.\u00a0At Rising Africa, we want to change the African single story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rising Africa was founded by a team of three young, driven and above all passionate African\u2019s with the core mandate of telling the African success story. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your products and services\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our portals Rising Africa runs\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">website (www.risingafrica.org),<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">mobile applications \u00a0&#8211; android and IOS &#8211; \u00a0(www.risingafrica.org\/app\/)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and social media portals (Facebook &#8211; facebook.com\/risingafrica.org\/, Twitter &#8211; twitter.com\/risingafricaorg, and Instagram &#8211; instagram.com\/risingafricaorg\/)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">all aimed at telling and celebrating the African success story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our one and a half year old website is already averaging about a hundred thousand article views monthly and we are projecting monthly unique visitors of 500,000 by the end of the first quarter of 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Our Stories\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our stories cover Africans at all age levels (Wonder Kids section covers Africans from age 7 to 12, Super Teens\u00a0 between 13 to 19 years old and Young Achievers from 20 to 30 years old) and in every sector of the economy (Science, Business, Entrepreneurship, Governance, Technology, Education, Sports, Agriculture, Education, Medicine, Entertainment and more).\u00a0We also have a special section celebrating WOMEN in Africa and another for persons living with disability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Other Projects<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">RISING AFRICA SERIES &#8211;\u00a0These are\u00a0viral e-flyer artworks\u00a0with short inspiration stories of African\u2019s doing great things to serve as an inspiration to Africa\u2019s youth. These e-flyers are\u00a0shared on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram, LinkedIn&#8230;). Find samples here<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE Magazine &#8211; coming soon by first quarter of 2017<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">RAN Africa (Rising African Network \u2013 RAN) is our network of passionate persons who want to be change agents on the continent. Network members will have the opportunity to organize local networking events to promote empowerment, activism, mentorship, entrepreneurship, community engagement and career development amongst RISING AFRICANS.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SHEROES OF AFRICA &#8211; At Rising Africa, we put women at the centre stage. We believe that women are powerful and key catalyst for change.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In www.sheroesofafrica.org, we hope to build a community for our sheroes, allowing them connect with each other and share experiences through forum discussions, contributing articles, attending capacity building and networking events and giving back to society through mentoring and coaching the younger generation and the underprivileged.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kidpreneurs Ghana exists to spark an entrepreneurial and leadership spirit in the next generation, equipping and empowering them with the confidence, resilience, creativity and critical thinking to thrive in their future careers. We partner with schools (Primary and Junior High Schools- JHS) in Ghana to teach students entrepreneurship and leadership skills as an extracurricular program.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><b>Your success factors\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rising Africa (www.RisingAfrica.org) is a pan-African social enterprise with a core agenda of changing the narrative about Africa on the media landscape. At Rising Africa, we want to populate the media space with inspiring success stories of Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our vision is to become the #1 inspirational hub that celebrate and inspire African success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your factors differentiating and disruptive compared to the existing\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We seek to provide an aggregator (one-stop platform) for all these great African stories scattered all over the internet and other media platforms and that makes us unique in that space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your business model (how do you make money?)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our business model is mainly through advertising on our platforms, corporate sponsorship and partnership with our events and mandate and donation from people who identify with our mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>A few words about your competitors<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our potential competitors are primarily focused on\u00a0general news on Africa whiles we have our niche on success story of Africa making us unique.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>To learn more about us<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>www.RisingAfrica.org<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa\u2019s image in the media is often distorted, one-dimensional view &#8211; that sees the continent only through a prism of war, disease, poverty, starvation and corruption. 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