HOOKED ON NAMHOOK
byAccording to the UN International Telecommunications Union, Africa has a larger mobile phone market than North America with a whopping 400 million subscribers. And…
Tech
Africa at the forefront of Technology? Of course!
SMART AFRICA: IT JUST MAKES SENSE
byFor a long time now the African Youth – a force to be reckoned with – has been using information communication technology in their…
ANDELA: DISTRUPTION AT ITS BEST
byThe reality of the world we live in means more and more around the world people are crossing borders as a result of work…
SCALING UP AGRICULTURE IN AFRICA
byThe irony of the African continent is that we are overflowing with natural resources and fertile soils; yet we cannot feed ourselves, instead relying…
HOPSTOP: PUTTING AFRICA ON THE MAP
by“Every entrepreneur starts off thinking ‘What’s a problem I can fix?’ The problem for me was how to get from Point A to Point…
MISS AFRICA: POWERING TECH INITIATIVES FOR WOMEN IN AFRICA
byI’m sure we have all heard the saying, ‘boys and their toys’, ‘their toys’ being all things tech related. And for a long time,…
EQUITEL: ALTERING MOBILE MONEY
byEver since the launch of mobile money in 2007, the lives of Kenyans were forever changed. 2014 might be another pivotal milestone for Kenya’s…
SOCIAL MEDIA WEEK LAGOS: UPWARDLY MOBILE
byThe year that was saw the African continent capitalize on their hold of the social media industry. Unless you were living under rock the…
MEET CATHERINE MAHUGU, FOUNDER OF SOKO
byBringing African artisan’s work to the world through a mobile to web platform. This is the mission that Catherine Mahugu, Ella Peinovich and Gwen Floyd…
SAFARICOM’S M-PESA ACADEMY: REVOLUTIONIZING INNOVATION
bySafaricom changed micro-financing and brought mobile-phone based money with the launch of M-PESA (“pesa” is Swahili for money) in 2007. The rise of M-PESA…