15 year old African kid starts a company which makes bicycles out of bamboo
It’s so sad and so serious that a common toothpick in my country has to be imported from other countries,” says Winifred Selby.At an African Leadership Academy event in Johannesburg last year, I asked a young Ghanaian entrepreneur, Winifred Selby, what motivated her to co-start Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative when she was just 15. The […]
Nigerian billionaire Tony Elumelu gives $100m to African entrepreneurs
Nigerian billionaire Tony Elumelu has decided to fund 1,000 budding African entrepreneurs as part of a $100m (£670,000) initiative to boost the continent’s private sector.Mr Elumelu said the entrepreneurs were Africa’s “hope for the future”.The 1,000 come from 52 African states and territories and were chosen from some 20,000 applicants. Forbes magazine listed Mr Elumelu […]
Rwanda’s Water Distribution Gets High-Tech Boost
A pilot program in Rwanda aims to improve the performance of water pumps as well as maintenance response times.The faith-based non-profit organization, Living Water International, recently announced the new project as part of their larger scale mission to provide clean water to hundreds of millions of people around the world.The technology was developed by Portland […]
Mobile money: The next generation
Africa has forged a reputation as a global leader in mobile financial services. There are relatively few bank branches across the continent, and only a minority of people have bank accounts.Telecoms companies have stepped into the gap to provide financial services to large swathes of the continent’s population.Yet even as more customers sign up to […]
Apple Watch gets fashion push with Vogue China cover
The model-fuelled photoshoot suggests Apple wants its Watch to be seen as a fashion item considering its recent fashion push with Vogue magazine China.Apple wants its newest product to be seen as more than just a gadget, putting the Apple Watch on the cover of fashion magazine Vogue China.The Apple Watch isn’t expected to hit […]
Apple sold a record 39 million iPhones in the fourth quarter
WHO said that smartphones were past their prime? That certainly does not seem the case at the top end of the market. Apple proved even optimists wrong when it announced on October 20th that it had sold a record 39m iPhones in the fourth quarter of the firm’s accounting year.Demand for Apple’s two new devices, […]
Gabon IT youth training to benefit from partnership between Airtel and UNESCO
Bharti Airtel with launch a new training programme targeting to impart new technological skills to thousands of youth in Gabon in partnership with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).The three-year initiative – dubbed ‘’Train My Generation: Gabon 5,000’’ – is the first of its kind that UNESCO has partnered with a private organisation […]