Clik here to view.
Nigerian Mobile Payments & Banking Starts
Last week I got a visit from Peter Afam Emeleogu, an old contact from TED Africa in 2007. We’ve both been busy in the intervening years, exploring how technology can be used to overcome inefficiencies...
View ArticleTwitter is Slowly Coming Back to Africa
Over 2.5 years ago Twitter shut down all operations in Africa. Back then, in August of 2008, it really didn’t matter too much as the penetration rates for the service in Africa, and most of the world,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Africa’s Android Invasion
Mobile phone manufacturers, operators and of course Google started a big push on Android into Africa this year. Samsung, HTC and Huawei are moving Android phones into the market. Some operators are...
View ArticlePraekelt: SMS at Scale
Here’s a great video put together by the Praekelt Foundation on the state of mobiles in Africa in 2011. I’ve gotten to know Gustav Praekelt over the last few years after we first met up at PopTech in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mobile Apps in Africa (2011 Report)
I maintain that Russell Southwood and his Balancing Act newsletter and reports are some of the best material on pan-African technology and broadcast information that you can find anywhere. Their recent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quick Hits Across African Tech
What Africa’s Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World Ghanaian friend and TED Fellow Bright Simons does a piece for Harvard Business Review on African entrepreneurs, excess diversification and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quick Hits Around African Tech (May 2012)
This last month has kept me too off-kilter to get a good blog post up. However, there have been some very interesting happenings around the continent, here are the ones that caught my attention: Pivot...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Style and Swagger With a Renegade Trike Hacker in Nigeria
I’m a motorcycle guy, so anytime you put a motor on a chassis with something less than four wheels, then I’m interested. This week I’m at Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria. This is the 4th...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Community Connectedness as a Competitive Advantage
In the last couple weeks I’ve had the opportunity to be in Nigeria (Maker Faire Africa), followed by South Africa (AfricaCom). Along with Kenya, these countries represent the biggest technology...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tech Links Around Africa, March 2013
[Last week I had a security problem with WordPress, which is fixed now, my apologies for any inconvenience] Pivot East, our East African pitching competition, will be held in Uganda for the first time...
View Article
