Technology in Africa: Africa on the rise

The presenter asks us to shed outdated notions of Africa as a unified place plagued by starvation and war.

Between mobile phone innovations like M-PESA, social networking like MXit and entrepreneurial spaces like Maker Faire Africa, Hersman sees innovation and entrepreneurship exploding within some of Africa’s—and the world’s—fastest growing economies.

Indeed, Africa has began to aggressively contribute to the global economy.