Doing Tech Business in Africa: A Few Lessons from Twitter's Rise in Africa

Very recently Portland Communications released some data from research carried to find out about the usage of Twitter in Africa. The report was received quite well and received some notable attention across the web. Much of what has been written has looked … Read More

Building Websites that Work in Africa

It is interesting that sometimes it’s not the most robust and well designed solutions that get picked up by consumers. Great design of course is something of great importance when designing a piece of software, an app or a website. … Read More

Which African country is best to do a tech startup? A Decision Framework

In recent conversation that have spanned the last 6 months, I’ve been getting the same style of questions from foreigners who recognize the growing opportunities in Africa and want to jump in. “Which is the best country in Africa … Read More

Learning Ruby on Rails, Fighting the Funding Trap and Other Interesting Things

Riding the Rails One of my goals this year is to learn Ruby on Rails. When I first decided to get into web development (proper), about 7 years ago, my analysis lead me to PHP/MySQL. After coding two major … Read More

Two recently launched web startups from South Africa

More and more tech startups are coming up across Africa, fuelled by growing interest in tech, innovation and startups in Africa from all over the world, and an increasing realisation of major opportunities online, Africans are finding new grounds to … Read More

A Nigerian, Kenyan & South African Web Comic

Digital online publishing presents some great opportunities for African content creators and creatives. The digital/online medium presents a way around the all too often lengthy and costly publishing process associated with publishing a print version of the work. And so … Read More

By the numbers: Communications Commission of Kenya Mobile & Internet Stats

This post is originated from the iHub blog by Leo Mutuku, and reposted here with permission.

The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has released a Statistics Report on the Communications Sector reviewing the last quarter of the year 2010/2011. The information used to … Read More

Watchout Dealfish, Google Trader is here!

Google has officially launched it’s Google Trader service in Kenya following it’s success in Uganda and a launch in Ghana. Google announced on it’s official Google Africa blog:

After the pilot launch in Uganda and the exciting launch in Ghana, we are excited to announce the … Read More

Wananchi Group & Google Africa's Wazi Wi-Fi And Their Plans To Take The Continent Wireless

A few months ago we broke the news of a partnership between Google Africa and Wananchi Group as they piloted “Wazi Wi-Fi” a new wireless network solution in Nairobi. Now we got some more insight into the project and their … Read More

The snowball effect in the Kenyan (and African) startup scene

The premise behind the move to found and launch Afrinnovator was not really just for the sake of blogging (though writing is fun).

Part of the reason was that it seemed that there were either not enough success stories or … Read More