There will be a special fundraising screening of ‘Fezeka’s Voice’ on Tuesday 30 March to support the Fezeka Project. This film is about the inspirational and true story of a South African township school choir. Both the film and the choir have won awards in South Africa. The producers are using the film to inspire other kids to change their lives the way the kids in the choir have, and also to bring the choir back to the UK for an incredible tour. The tour will start and finish at the Southbank Centre, taking in Wales Millennium Centre and the Henley Festival (where the choir will sing alongside Bryn Terfel) amongst others, with the final performance on the same day as the World Cup Final.

The producers urgently need to raise the balance of money needed to bring the choir over and need the support of Africans and friends of Africa. The film is at 6:30 for 7:00pm on 30 March at the Moving Picture Company, 127 Wardour St, London. Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to reserve a seat.

The International Conference for Teaching and Learning with Technology, iCTLT 2010, provides practitioners, academics, researchers, thought-leaders, policy-makers and industry partners across the Asia Pacific Region an exceptional opportunity to network, collaborate, share, and learn about cutting-edge research and effective classroom practices using technology to enhance teaching and learning.

This is an excellent opportunity for UK Trade & Investment to help you showcase your business to key decision-makers and potential customers in Singapore and South East Asia. www.ictlt.com

International Women's Day is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.

Each year on 8 March, hundreds of International Women's Day events occur all around the world. They events range from small random informal gatherings to large-scale highly organised events. All celebrate women's advancement and highlight the need for continued vigilance and action.

Find out more about IWD events around the world at: www.internationalwomensday.com

The Global Pacific & Partners 7th Annual African Petroleum Forum 2010 from 12-13th April 2010 takes place at The Geological Society, London, bringing together senior oil executives to interface, network and negotiate deals, whilst showcasing key players worldwide.

The 7th Annual African Petroleum Forum focuses on exploration, the gas-LNG game on the Continent, players and their strategies, State Companies in Africa, and Independents - and new thinking on Africa. This program will showcase leading Speakers at this world-class international management Conference, establishing it as a Forum for deals, direct networking with Governments, and new paradigms in the African upstream game.

For more details and to register:

The OAA'83 Year Group, organisers and hosts of this year's OAA (UK) Annual Fundraising Dinner Dance are currently working very hard to make the event, on Saturday 8th May 2010, at Kensington Hall, a resounding fundraising success. Our aim is to raise at least £10,000 for the school from this event.

Given the current crisis at the school caused by the breakdown of its sewage system, there is now even more reason for Akoras to rally together and BE ONE to save our dearest Alma Mater from literally ending up in the sewers!!! Tickets for this event are now on sale at £60.00 - please visit www.oaa83.com for more information.

The link to the event on Facebook is: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171628482675

A performance management system that is both clear and inclusive is an effective tool for driving high performance and ultimately achieving business objectives.

This one-day conference will explore the key issues you face in developing an effective performance management system that both engages your workforce and improves overall performance. Get practical tools and advice to ensure you develop a best practice framework that delivers real value to the business.

Song East presents three exceptional singers who will tour for the EAST festival - Alasdair Roberts, Anni Rossi and Muntu Valdo will be performing FREE at Hackney Empire's Marie Lloyd Bar. You can't book - so get here early.

Muntu Valdo's music is rooted in the blues, mixing African traditions (he was brought up in Cameroon and then France) with striking modernity and technical mastery, building up layers of sounds with loops and samples. He toured last autumn with Congolese superstars Staff Benda Bilili - his debut album Gods & Devils was described by NME as 'a rapturous record that shudders with joy and passion.'

Folk visionary Alasdair Roberts' welcoming psychedelia weaves together myths and legends with swirling song structures and cryptic word play, cultivating moods both beautiful and haunting. This is the new folk, and Roberts' distinct niche landed him on the flawlessly innovative Drag City label. 'Roberts fashions his songs from the stout timber of myth, and creates songs that, for all their haunting morbidity, throb with electricity,' Independent.

Chicago's Anni Rossi amalgamates a mean juxtaposition between her delightful, hypnotic vocals and the destructive plucking of her divining rod of choice – the viola. After a little critical lauding of her previous two albums and supporting gigs with Camera Obscura, Noah & The Whale, and Electrelane, Rossi is ready to unveil her ultimate statement with Heavy Meadow, out on 4AD this spring.

SIM Senegal 2010 (Senegal International Mining Conference & Exhibition) will take place in Dakar, Senegal from 12 – 15 April 2010. The event will be organised by the Ministry of Mines, Industry and SME, Republic of Senegal in collaboration with the British company AME Trade Limited.

This event will form a golden backdrop to the festivities of the 50th Independence Anniversary of the Republic of Senegal which is celebrated on the 4th April 2010; half a century after Senegal declared its independence from France. The event will feature three days of plenary sessions, technical workshops, exhibitions as well as visits to key Senegalese mining and tourist sites. Senegal is politically and socially stable has excellent infrastructure, skilled human resources and a competitive, attractive, clear, transparent, simple and modern fiscal and regulatory regime. Senegal presents a definite guarantee for the security of your mining investments.

Senegal has a wealth of diverse and unexploited mineral deposits which until recently have lain dormant. Previously Senegal's mining industry was dominated by the exploitation of phosphates, industrial limestone and attapulgite. However due to a new mining code and investment promotion drive by the Senegalese government and their development partners, the exploitation of gold, iron ore and uranium in south eastern Senegal and deposits of zircon and titanium in the Grand Cote in the Sedimentary basin have commenced. Senegal is set to become one of Africa's leading gold producers and a world class deposit of iron ore is to be exploited in the near future.

If you are interested in finding out more information about the event, please contact our sales management team on +44 (0) 207 700 4874 send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please note that space is extremely limited at this premier conference and we advise all participants to book well in advance.

For further information on all aspects of the event, please do not hesitate to contact us or go to the official event website www.simsenegal.com

The London Development Agency (LDA), KPMG and Lloyds TSB are hosting a series of three free business strategy seminars for small and medium sized businesses called "Surviving the Downturn".

These seminars have been specifically put together to help equip businesses with practical strategies for coming out of the recession and focusing on future growth. Each event will provide an opportunity to ask questions and network.

On 11 March 2010 – Family First –will concentrate on issues key to family run and family owned businesses such as succession plans, tax efficiency and talent management.

All events take place at KPMG offices, 8 Salisbury Square, London EC4Y 8BB. For further details or to book on one of these events, please visit the LDA website - Opens in a new window.

The African infrastructure and energy market is picking up as the aftershock of the financial crisis begins to subside. In South Africa, where liquidity flows easily relative to the rest of the continent, hot topics are the major deal opportunities in renewable energy, IPPs and an expanding list of social infrastructure projects from hospitals to prisons.

In East Africa, renewable energy projects are also developing, from wind to hydro, and across Central and Southern Africa a number of financing and investing opportunities are ready-to-go in the pipeline – from transport to the telecoms sector. In the context of the challenges and opportunities in this diverse continent, African Infrastructure and Energy Finance Conference will bring together major developers, key sponsors, government officials, important investors and lenders, advisory services and multilaterals to exchange knowledge, expertise and network for future deals.

This event is the essential gathering for developers and financiers to discuss with the deal-makers and deal-enablers in Africa.

For further information and to register: www.euromoneyseminars.com/AIEFC

WILL E ROBO, P'DIDDYS #1 BAD BOY OF COMEDY. Five times best comic winner at the world renowned Apollo theatre and Flip Wilson Award winner as Best Original Act.

With ground breaking TV appearances on American TV including BET's Comic View, Russell Simmons Def Comedy Jam, and P. Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy, series1 & 2, Freestreet Entertainment presents Will E Robo America's Multi Award Winning Comic....the Ultimate performer.

For details, contact Richard Nyeila tel: 0208 795 2392. Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or www.freestreet-entertainment.com

Bigger, Better and Busier than ever before, the Sub- continent's premier gathering is the one event you cannot afford to miss. Formerly known simply as OIL AFRICA. This title has been changed for 2010 to emphasis the increasing role gas production is playing in the industry.

This longstanding conference and exhibition has developed and evolved into a truly international platform. With delegates and exhibitors from Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Canada, China, DRC, Egypt, France, Ghana, India, Italy, Kenya, Korea, Madagascar, Monaco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, UAE, UK, USA, West Indies and Zimbabwe, this conference and exhibition delivers real results.

The Exhibition is the ideal platform from which to launch new products, promote your brand, build on your corporate image or show your services. With it's established track record, extensive International publicity and promotion, powerful endorsing bodies and media partners it outweighs any potentially competing event. All will be supplemented in 2010 by an extensive VIP visitor promotion programme.

For more information please contact Mark Burridge or click here to request a brochure.

In tough economic times, organisations will look to their learning and development departments to contribute real value in building and retaining talent in the workforce. L&D departments need to respond to this challenge by adopting new approaches and developing new skill sets themselves. Also, the wide loss of jobs during the previous year has forced people to 'reinvent' & 'redefine' their professional capability. They are constantly looking for new skills or polishing existing skills to increase their competency and to make themselves more marketable. Hence, it is of utmost importance to global learning executives to provide a competent learning environment within the organisations.

The driving force behind SALVO Global Learning Academy 2010 conference is to help learning executives connect real-world corporate academy practices with leading-edge strategies to solve their current corporate learning challenges.

Global Learning Academy 2010 will showcase interactive and stimulating sessions, helping you to realize the need to restructure and revive your organisational learning & development functions post-crisis; providing tools and techniques to creatively blend working, learning and giving. GLA'10 is a unique platform to learn, network, discuss and debate fresh and innovative learning ideas with our esteemed faculty of speakers. Only the best speakers will be featured in this programme!

For further details to register and attend:  www.glaconference.com

The continent's one and only Fishing Industry Exhibition and total Fish Show - Fish Africa - is undergoing a revamp after thirteen successful years as a standalone event.

As Organisers of both Fish Africa and Oil & Gas Africa (6 months later) it made no sense to continue running two completely separate events targeting virtually the same suppliers; splitting their budgets or making them choose one event over the other.

We have therefore decided to rename the event - Fish & Marine Africa as well as co-locate the exhibition alongside our 2010 Oil & Gas Africa expo at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in March next year. By introducing Maritime into the show title we want to emphasis that this event now does more than just serve the commercial Fishing Industries of Africa.

iFactor For Women book launch Wednesday at Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, London SW2 1JQ

The 'iFactor For Women' contains 52 questions that every woman should ask themselves and 52 thoughts that every woman should consider. Thoughts and questions that touch every area of a woman's life.

You have a 'secret wealth' inside which the 'iFactor For Women' will help you discover. The 'iFactor For Women' will help you to discover a missing piece of your success puzzle.

Event starts at 7pm - Refreshments will be served - This event is FREE to attend. www.kenbarnes.co.uk

Africa is becoming the land of discovery again but this time it is being discovered by people from the African Diaspora. People are increasingly looking at the countries of their heritage as fertile ground for them to settle down roots, start new ventures and contribute meaningfully to its economic growth and sustainable development. In investment terms Africa is an exciting opportunity with a degree of risk but the promise of high returns.

Ghana is a country experiencing a high growth and expansion rate; it is a place ripe for new business and actively encouraging new business from those beyond its shores.

To assist those in the Diaspora who have recognised this opportunity AFFORD and IntEnt (International Enterprise) have formed a partnership to bring you The REMADE programme. The REMADE programme is an EU co-funded project that will last until December 2011 and is aimed at those who are ready to start a business or a branch of their business in Ghana.

The AFFORD-REMADE Business Club is an opportunity to learn more about assistance in setting up your business in Ghana, network with like minded people and take the first steps in realising your entrepreneurial ambitions.

Time: Reception at 6pm (6.30pm start) to 9pm Location: 13 Belgrave Square London SW1X 8PS Please register your attendance by Tuesday 16th March 2010 to ensure entry and receive further information by emailing your details to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it    This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 0207 582 3578.

The Eastern Africa Energy Conference 2010, scheduled for Nairobi, is part of our worldwide suite of senior management events in/on Africa that we have conducted annually for over 16 years, and is endorsed by the Ministry of Energy, Kenya and the National Oil Corporation of Kenya.

It showcases the regional oil/gas and energy game in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mocambique, and focuses on the corporate players (private and state entities) that are shaping the fast-moving dynamics one of the Continent's rapidly growing energy markets - upstream, midstream, downstream, and in gas/power, CBM/CTL, as well as in renewables and biofuels.

Themes covered include: Government policies, state interventions in the oil/energy market, state oil/energy companies, private energy investments and interests, corporate portfolio and strategies, new entrants, competition and regulation, inter-fuel issues, product pricing, taxation and the financing of non-hydrocarbon ventures, plus critical issues impacting the Eastern African future.

On the first evening of the Eastern Africa Energy Conference we will host our 31st PetroAfricanus Dinner, with Guest Speaker: Jeff Hume, Managing Director, Upstream Petroleum Consultants.

Inside the week is a special and unique 3rd Petroleum Industry Fundamentals Industry Training Workshop presented by Dr Duncan Clarke, the world's leading authority on African oil and gas and global national oil companies, as well as the author of the widely-acclaimed Crude Continent; The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize

For further details and to register: www.petro21.com/events/index.cfm?id=502

The Homecoming Revolution London Event is an opportunity not to be missed! Now in it's fourth year, the 2 day exhibition will connect you with the opportunities that are available in South Africa and offer a one-stop shop where all your questions are answered with regards to property, immigration, education, bank accounts, businesses, jobs and all other relevant information required to move to SA. For a list of companies exhibiting visit our event website.

If you don't plan on coming back to South Africa anytime soon but just need a dose of home then the event is the ideal chance to connect with everything South African and listen to some inspiring guest speakers.

Please make sure you have registered on our site so that you can be kept up to date with developments through our regular newsletter and other communications.

In Celebration of my Sisters 2010 will take place at the Fairfield Concert Hall, Croydon on March 21, 7.30-10.30pm.

Box Office: 020 8688 9291. This year the event will be supporting the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust.

'Celebrating Excellence in Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry'

It's that time of year again when the oil and gas community come together to recognise the progression of training and learning within the energy industry. Once again the Getenergy Awards will celebrate excellence in education and training for the oil and gas industry.

The Getenergy Awards offer a high profile platform for the success stories that your efforts drive and provide a framework to measure, record and recognise world-beating achievement in 7 areas of critical importance to the global oil and gas business.

The awards will be presented at the Getenergy 2010 Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner on the evening of 23rd of March in Kuala Lumpur.

Following the tremendous success of our 1st Human Capital Management Conference – Innovating HR Strategies in Tough Times, Fleming Gulf is proud to host the 2nd Annual Human Capital Management Forum scheduled for 24th -26th May 2010 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The recent past has seen a shift in regional HR Policy and Strategies with more and more companies focusing on consolidating their workforce and developing the talent and skill set of their existing employees. Employee Motivation and Engagement continue to be important HR functions given that inspired employees are more efficient and dedicated to their work. These and several other key issues will be on the agenda for discussion at the 2nd Annual Human Capital Management Forum. Key Regional and International HR Leaders from Banking and Finance, Commerce, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Aviation, General Trading and various other sectors will come together at this event to present, discuss and participate in the 2nd edition of this highly successful Fleming Gulf Conference.

At a time when ICTs are defining the way the world lives and conducts business, it is important for African governments to evolve themselves to meet the demands of changing trends in order to deliver effective services and to improve their citizenry. This also requires the formation of Public Private Peoples Partnerships to be geared towards achieving developmental goals through the application of ICTs to governance (e-governance/e-government), electoral processes (e-democracy), food and nutrition (e-agriculture), health delivery (e-health/telemedicine), learning and capacity development (e-education) and trade (e-commerce), among others.

As part of its mandate to facilitate and promote ICT development through knowledge-sharing events, the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), in conjunction with the ICT Ministry of Mozambique, will be organising the 4th annual e-Governance Africa Forum 2010 in Maputo, Mozambique, from 23rd to 25th March, 2010.

The theme for this event is Effective Governance, transparent public services and citizen empowerment through Information and Communication Technologies.

CAPE IV, the 4th African Petroleum Congress and Exhibition will take place from 24 – 27 March 2010 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The event will be organised by the African Petroleum Producers Association (APPA), the Ministry of Hydrocarbures, Democratic Republic of Congo and AME Trade Ltd, UK.

In the same year as the football World Cup will take place on the African continent for the first time; CAPE IV will be the veritable "World Cup of African Oil", as investors compete for over 100 billion barrels of proven oil reserves contained in APPA member countries.

CAPE IV will include delegations of the highest rank, from the sixteen petroleum producing members of APPA namely: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Congo DRC, Cote D'Ivoire, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Libya, Mauritania, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan and Tchad.

CAPE is established as the largest and the most influential oil and gas event in Africa and will be an event of the highest level with a guaranteed eminent African audience.

In the face of the global economic slowdown, whether your organization is either thinking about or has initiated layoffs, downsizing, rightsizing, staff cuts, or managed redundancy, for the first time in the history, it is human capital that is linked to the success of organizations. The quality of people and the competencies of the future will be critical factors in corporate vitality and survival of organizations.

Fleming Gulf’s People’s Challenge Africa 2010 will provide you with a platform to strategize and sail through the troubled times securing your assets of human capital. The conference will aim at exploiting and addressing short-term imbalances and build strong foundations for long-term prospects.

For further details and to book: www.fleminggulf.com/conferences/hr/PeopleChallangeAfrica1-1-1-1

2010 is here and it is time to do some serious forward planning for your Business. What better way to do so than to get away from the many competing priorities and surround yourself with high calibre experts and peers in order to seriously make some big plans to increase your income and introduce new strategies.

The Ampod Business Leadership Weekend for Directors and Business Owners, or those at an advanced stage of business planning, is the perfect place to focus exclusively on the issues of Growth and Sustainability of your business. In the company of experts from the field of Financial Investment, Social Marketing, Business Coaching, Procurement, Financial Planning and Strategies for Growth you will be supported and guided out of any confusion that you currently have about investment possibilities, how to take your operations to the next level and how to ensure that you leave a lasting legacy.

Set in beautiful Oxfordshire, this event provides the perfect opportunity for both relaxation and an in-depth business analysis. To secure your place please email Yvonne Witter at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or telephone 0208 766 6910/ 07984 53 54 51

WWEB is now in its 3rd year and we are again celebrating International Women's Month 2010. A motivational and inspiring day with dynamic speakers, business exhibitors, life and career coaches, & entertainment.

The event is open to men and women 16+. Luton Carnival Arts Centre, 3 St Mary's Road, Luton, Beds, LU1 3JA 12pm – 4pm Tickets £10 | Exhibitor stands £20

For further information contact: Helen Tucker 07949 038277 or Dee Bailey 07759 966124

The 5th eLearning Africa will take place from May 26th–28th, 2010 in Lusaka, Zambia, under the patronage of the Zambian Minister of Education, the Honourable Ms Dora Siliya. The pan-African conference, organised by ICWE GmbH, focuses on information and communication technologies (ICTs) for development, education and training in Africa. Serving as a pan-African platform, eLearning Africa links a network of decision makers from governments and administrations with universities, schools, governmental and private training providers, industry and important partners in development cooperation. Each year, a different country serves as the venue.

At the 2009 event, 1350 education professionals from 83 countries convened in the Senegalese capital Dakar in May. The conference took place under the patronage of Maître Abdoulaye Wade, the President of Senegal.

eLearning Africa, 5th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, Mulungushi International Conference Center, Lusaka, Zambia. Organisers: ICWE GmbH, www.icwe.net Contact: ICWE GmbH, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.eLearning-africa.com   Tel.: +49 (0)30 310 18 18-0