EQUITEL: ALTERING MOBILE MONEY
Ever since the launch of mobile money in 2007, the lives of Kenyans were forever changed. 2014 might be another pivotal milestone for Kenya’s…
mobile money
ROTATING SAVINGS AND CREDIT ASSOCIATION : FROM THE VILLAGE TO THE MOBILE
Translated from french by Isabella Muma In its original sense, a rotating savings and credit association (RSCA) is an agreement reached by a group…
THE RISING AUTOMOBILE EMPIRE IN AFRICA
Africa is filled with opportunities that have gone many years untapped by Africans for their own development and progress. The intelligence, resilience, creativity and…
Anish Shivdasani: “Africa is very advanced in terms of mobile telecoms”
Unemployment has been an ongoing, seemingly never-ending issue on the continent. Governments have been defeated in trying to permanently erase it and so it…
SOCIAL MEDIA WEEK LAGOS: UPWARDLY MOBILE
The year that was saw the African continent capitalize on their hold of the social media industry. Unless you were living under rock the…
FINTECH IN AFRICA: CHATBANKING BRINGS THE BANK TO YOU!
In 2017 the global digital agencies, We Are Social and Hootsuite reported social media users in Africa scaled up 12%, raising the numbers to…
THERE IS SOMETHING MISSING
Well-endowed with a wide variety of resources such as oil, diamonds, cocoa and cotton. Africa, previously referred to as the ‘sleeping giant’ has proved…
WESTERN UNION ANNOUNCES A PARTNERSHIP WITH AIRTEL RWANDA
The Western Union Company, the leader in global payments services and money transfer announced the signature of a collaboration agreement with Airtel Rwanda, a…
iHUB: TAKING TECH TO THE NEXT LEVEL
In the sprawling city of Nairobi, the name ‘iHub’ is synonymous with all things tech. Almost every Tom Dick and Harry knows about this…
The MIT SLOAN Africa Innovate Conference 2016: Overcoming The Ordinary
“There is a way to do it better – find it.” – Thomas Edison. This man -the inventor of the phonograph, the motion picture…