Across the continent, brilliant entrepreneurial ideas are dying in the gap between inspiration and execution. Venture builders - disciplined, factory-style startup studios - may be the...
By Dishant Shah From the bustling streets of Nairobi to the electrifying beats of Lagos’s music festivals, and the vibrant marketplaces of Accra, Africa pulses with...
By Zoe Henry At first blush, you might not think of Nairobi, Kenya, as being especially ripe for startups. Public concerns about security, government red tape,...
By Jake Bright As entrepreneurship takes off in countries like Kenya and Ethiopia, the U.S. President Barack Obama will be looking for more ways to boost...
App developers at work in Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/File Young techies hunched over laptops in small offices across Africa want to create their own versions of California’s...
When things turned ugly after Kenya’s 2007 elections, an unlikely group of heroes, young African coders, developed a platform that used cellphones and the Internet to...
Kenya is fast becoming the main African hub for global technology companies because the country is getting its IT skills training right. This is the view...
Kenya’s government has lifted a ban that prohibited development within a 10km radius around the country’s future multi-billion dollar Konza technology city. Last year in January,...
