African Entertainment Online/Mobile

The inaugural Mobile Entertainment Africa conference was recently held in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference aimed to provide some perspective on the growing mobile entertainment industry across Africa. Following up on the conference, let’s look at a few online/mobile entertainment … Read More

The Cloud Revolution – An Opportunity for Africa

A guest article by Ifeoluwa Adebayo, Emityme Solutions Ltd Cloud computing basically means doing less with your computer and doing more in the cloud – on the internet. Organisations are jumping on the cloud train at a very fast rate. … Read More

9 Cool Smartphone Apps Built in Africa

1. Nigeria Blackberry Constitution App

A blackberry application for the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Created by @zubairabubakar

2. Nigeria: TrueBranches Blackberry app

The TrueBranches mobile app is an extension of their website. … Read More

5 Cool African eCommerce Websites

1. Kalahari

Naspers owned Kalahari.com is the market leader in South African e-commerce. Established in 1999, kalahari.com is SA’s largest online retailer of millions of books, eBooks, eReaders, music, DVDs, games, cameras & electronics! A pioneer in the South African e-commerce … Read More

Buy Africa on TrueBranches

We continue our feature on the e-commerce startup started by a Nigerian in the USA, TrueBranches. This time we focus on the Buy Africa unit of TrueBranches.

The Buy Africa unit at TrueBranches is dedicated to showcasing Africa’s abilities to … Read More

Startup Watch: Esoko Ltd: Powering an agric revolution

The gist of this story was originally written by Oluniyi David Ajao, a tech leader, writer and entrepreneur in Western Africa as part of a series of posts on Esoko

When we look around markets, we see the need for … Read More

Africa Tech Innovation Pulse Check

Innovation is a change in the thought process for doing something, or the useful application of new inventions or discoveries. It may refer to an incremental emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. …

In … Read More

Africa Mobile Web Pulse Check

Mobile phone technology has revolutionized the African continent in so many ways. The mobile phone has been for many an African the first real (or at the very least, most sophisticated) computing device they have encountered that has connected them in a significant manner … Read More

Africa Social Networking/Social Media Pulse Check

Back in 2008, in an article on socialmediatoday.com titled ‘Why Social Media in South Africa Will Fail’, the author makes a rather daring assertion:

… social media and social media marketing and social media strategy is an almost pointless pursuit … Read More

[Preview] Mobile Entertainment Africa Conference This August in Cape Town, South Africa

As part of Afrinnovator’s special build-up to the Mobile Entertainment Africa conference in Cape Town, South Africa from the 23rd and 24th of August, 2011 we look at what to expect and some context from All Amber’s inaugural cellphone entertainment-focused conference.Read More