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African Arty Beats: This week's top arts, culture and entertainment stories from across Africa

South African stage and screen actor Seputla Sebogodi, whose career spanned more than four decades, has died after complications related to diabetes. He was widely recognised for his role as Kenneth Mashaba in the long-running television drama Generations and appeared in numerous other productions, including Rhythm City, The River and Scandal. Sebogodi also returned to the stage this year in Black Moon, performed at South Africa's National Arts Festival in Makhanda. Sashin Naidoo reports...

South African stage and screen actor Seputla Sebogodi, whose career spanned more than four decades, has died after complications related to diabetes. He was widely recognised for his role as Kenneth Mashaba in the long-running television drama Generations and appeared in numerous other productions, including Rhythm City, The River and Scandal. Sebogodi also returned to the stage this year in Black Moon, performed at South Africa's National Arts Festival in Makhanda. Sashin Naidoo reports...

Veteran South African actor Seputla Sebogodi dies after diabetes-related complications

Artificial intelligence is being used to help strengthen Tanzania's tourism industry by giving businesses and policymakers faster access to visitor insights. Developed by the UN Development Programme in partnership with the Tanzanian government, the Jozani AI platform is designed to improve decision-making and support economic growth on the Zanzibar archipelago. UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Tanzania, John Rutere, spoke to UN News' Isaiah Steinberg about how the initiative is making a difference.

Artificial intelligence is being used to help strengthen Tanzania's tourism industry by giving businesses and policymakers faster access to visitor insights. Developed by the UN Development Programme in partnership with the Tanzanian government, the Jozani AI platform is designed to improve decision-making and support economic growth on the Zanzibar archipelago. UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Tanzania, John Rutere, spoke to UN News' Isaiah Steinberg about how the initiative is making a difference.

AI-powered platform boosts Tanzania's tourism planning with real-time visitor insights

On The Discourse this morning, we set our gaze across Africa's borders to talk about something shaping the continent's s future: who controls our internet. From Lusaka to Nairobi, from Windhoek to Accra, satellite internet is landing faster than regulation can keep up. While multinationals such as Starlink promise to close the connectivity gap in rural Zambia and across the continent, it also raises hard Pan-African questions: Who owns the infrastructure in our skies? Can we achieve digital sovereignty when the satellites, the data, and the platforms are foreign? And how do we make sure this new wave of connectivity serves African development goals, not just global business models? To begin the work of answering these vital questions, Built Africa has joined hands with other non-government organisations to convene a virtual gathering where policymakers and experts from Angola to Kenya will discuss everything from Starlink, Digital Sovereignty, to Digital Infrastructure Control in Africa. For a look at what this means for the ordinary African, Peter Ndoro spoke to Sheila Valema-Mumbi, she is a Zambian Digital Transformation and AI Governance Expert and Co-Founder and Managing Director of North Node Consulting Limited

On The Discourse this morning, we set our gaze across Africa's borders to talk about something shaping the continent's s future: who controls our internet. From Lusaka to Nairobi, from Windhoek to Accra, satellite internet is landing faster than regulation can keep up. While multinationals such as Starlink promise to close the connectivity gap in rural Zambia and across the continent, it also raises hard Pan-African questions: Who owns the infrastructure in our skies? Can we achieve digital sovereignty when the satellites, the data, and the platforms are foreign? And how do we make sure this new wave of connectivity serves African development goals, not just global business models? To begin the work of answering these vital questions, Built Africa has joined hands with other non-government organisations to convene a virtual gathering where policymakers and experts from Angola to Kenya will discuss everything from Starlink, Digital Sovereignty, to Digital Infrastructure Control in Africa. For a look at what this means for the ordinary African, Peter Ndoro spoke to Sheila Valema-Mumbi, she is a Zambian Digital Transformation and AI Governance Expert and Co-Founder and Managing Director of North Node Consulting Limited

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