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Driving the Dubai-Nairobi digital highway [Opinion]

I just came back from my second trip to Kenya in the past year and it is striking, for all the significant cultural, historic, geographic...

M-PESA, a mobile payment scheme launched in 2007 by Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom, has fundamentally changed the way Kenyans...

Cellular penetration in Africa is growing at a rate of around 4.2 percent – a rate unequalled anywhere else in the world. In terms of m...

A startup funding gap between early stage/angel and VC investments is starting to be filled by one of Kenya’s leading seed capital f...

From sidewalk hustlers and street vendors, to young techies and the growing number of self-made millionaires, Africa is a...

When one thinks or reads about technology startups in Africa, there are a few places that crop up quite often: Nairobi, Kenya; Lagos,...

Click here to see the original photos on Picasa Web. In Part Two of this three-part photo series “Inside East Africa’s Hubs”, we...