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Fish farming is a big income earner for many young farmers in Africa.
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Youths in Africa Taking to Farming

  • November 11, 2013

The reign of the white collar jobs is apparently coming to a close in Africa if the statistics of the youths making ends meet through agriculture is anything to go by. Breaking from the traditional style of practicing agriculture, the youths in the country today have demonstrated creativity, excellence, self[...]

Mostly used for military activities, the Marauder is really rare model in the world. 
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World’s Five Rarest SUVs

  • November 1, 2013

SUVs, despite being the late entrants to the auto industry all over the world, have gone ahead to claim a measurable share and control of the market. Their class in the industry today is undisputed, and manufacturers who ignore their importance would surely be ignoring themselves from business. Nevertheless, even[...]

The Datsun trucks are still common in Africa.
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Cars That Have Defied Age in Africa

  • October 23, 2013

They have been with us, and they literally have refused to leave us despite the tectonic changes experienced in the motor industry. Against the wave of fashion, classy and elegant design and modernism, some car models won’t just fade away. They still stand their ground to remain relevant in the[...]

The Nissan Manufacturing plant in South Africa is to be expanded by 2016 to cater for increasing vehicle demands.
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South Africa’s Car Consumption Statistics

  • October 16, 2013

South Africa is Africa’s biggest economy and happens to be the only African state to belong to the G20 league. The country has been severally mentioned by the Ibrahim’s report as one of those that have transparent budgets in the world. These positive attributes are manifest in many fronts of[...]

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The Funniest Uses for Vehicles in Africa

  • October 7, 2013

It is in Africa that a tool will be tried for practically all jobs and tasks. If it doesn’t do well, the tool simply is ‘substandard’ and doesn’t meet the expectations. This line of thought is not only applied to simple tools. It cuts across all type of machinery and[...]

Taking a driving test is a highly an academic rather than practical exercise. 
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Driving Tests in Africa-Origin of Road Carnage?

  • September 25, 2013

Driver training in most African countries is a short, three or four week affair. Whether this is enough or not is open to debate, but going by the fact that road carnage is caused by man error, its clear that three week training is not enough. After HIV, road carnage[...]

Among the upcoming auto manufacturers doing well in Africa.
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Manufacturing Companies Making Headway in Africa

  • September 16, 2013

Afroautos has kept you abreast with the developments in the African auto industry, ranging from the lucrative secondhand vehicle businesses to the ‘invasion’ by Chinese auto manufacturers and the imminent price and style wars. If this is anything to go by, then about five companies can be said to be[...]

A product of sheer design.
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Laraki Motors’ Grand Comeback

  • September 6, 2013

It’s completely difficult for a great idea to die and vanish into thin air. Such idea is that of the Laraki Fulgura, an African concept car that did not go beyond the launching stage. It was showcased in Geneva but it was never produced. You cannot stop a man, or[...]

Mary Anderson; invented the windscreen wiper.
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Women Inventors In The Motor Industry

  • August 28, 2013

The motor industry has come a long way, going back several decades ago and involving numerous inventions from many greats who contributed in one way or another to the advancement of the multi-billion industry that we know today. Of course some of the inventions were monumental and fundamental landmarks, with[...]

The cheetahs just got cheated by the impala.
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Animals Act Bizarre in Africa

  • August 12, 2013

It is only in Africa where animals act not only logically like humans, but at times even much wiser than humans. It is here too where animals are showing increasingly high desire to learn driving cars, or at least being part of cars. What do you make out of real[...]

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