I had the pleasure of attending Mobile Web East Africa in Nairobi Kenya, earlier this year 2010. The event turned out to be well-patronized with mobility experts mostly from East Africa descending on Nairobi for the two-day conference. Granted that we all know the impact of mobile telecoms in Africa, the Kenya event further opened [...]

… a new dawn for web hosting and domain registration in Nigeria as Web4Africa acquires Nairahost 6th December 2010 Web4Africa Ltd (www.web4africa.net) today announces its 100% client acquisition of Nairahost, a company that provides domain name services and web hosting to Nigeria. Established in 2004, Nairahost started with a vision to dominate the Nigerian web [...]

Swedish firm Next Generation Broadcasting (NGB), operators of the Smart TV brand, have extended their digital TV service to residents of Kenya. The service was fully launched today, following a pilot phase that began since June 2010. The pay TV operator is aiming to offer affordable TV to Kenya, and revolutionize the market. Capital FM [...]

The best comes from the west – or so they say. Having gone to Accra and Kumasi earlier this year, the BarCamp train is going to the Western Region of Ghana this November. The coastal city of Takoradi would place host the techies, entrepreneurs, aspiring students and other interested fellows as they meet to discuss [...]

Yeside is one of the few female entrepreneurs in Nigeria, who sell fashion items exclusively over the Internet. In this interview, she shares a bit about her background, tells us about yesidefashionstore.com and the future of the online store. She also shares a few tips that any discerning young entrepreneur would find useful. Yeside Fashion [...]

The ink has since dried on a deal signed between Multimedia Group Ltd (MGL) operators of Multi TV and Broadcast Solutions Africa and local representatives of Grass Valley (broadcast equipment manufacturers), to add High Definition (HD) TV channels to Multi TV’s current bouquet of TV channels. From broadcastengineering.com, Multimedia Group (MGL), operator of Multi TV, [...]

I received an email a few days ago, from one of the readers of this blog. I have reproduced the entire message below, and edited it a bit for the sake of clarity: Hi, I have been looking for how to accept payment online in Nigeria, without necessarily going through Interswitch. I have been reading [...]

The following is an official press release from the BarCamp Ghana organizers: BarCampAccra 2010, ad-hoc gathering where attendees meet for discussions, demos and networking, will take place on October 2nd, 2010 at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) campus at 20 Aluguntuguntu Street in East Legon, Accra. The theme is be “Creating wealth and [...]

A recent observation has compelled me to reflect on the title of this blog post: Is Blogging A Calling? Who said blogging was easy? Why do so many blogs fail? The focus of my observation is on the multitudes of personal blogs that have closed shop and those on indefinite leave of absence. For the [...]

I was interviewed via telephone by Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) in June 2010, and was asked some questions about blogging as part of their Blogging for a living: it’s catching on in Africa. “Blogging for a living” was part of an episode of Bridges with Africa. Bridges with Africa is RNW’s radio programme linking Africans [...]

Etranzact Ghana is again making an attempt to entrench the culture of electronic commerce in Ghana’s business landscape. Ghana like much of the rest of Africa, still relies on cash transactions. Etranzact being a payment processor, is creating awareness about ecommerce through a series of events targeted at the Ghanaian marketplace. Find below an introduction [...]

I don’t know if to smile or frown but I was surprised to have noticed this advertisement on Facebook: Great Quality Summer clothing! mens, womens, and kids resale stock at cheap prices to all traders from only £2.50 per kg.

The following blog post is culled from ICTWorks.org and involves me. Nigeria is the Giant of Africa, with 1/8 of its population and all the possibilities and problems that come with such size and diversity. It also should be the ICT leader for Africa. Nigeria has the more mobile phone subscribers, at 68 million, than [...]

GhanaBlogging.com Break-out Session started at 15:20pm and is moderated by Kajsa Hallberg Adu. She started blogged to tell people back home (Sweden) about life abroad (Ghana). Blogging is a conversation and so she sort to meet other bloggers, thus facilitating the creation of GhanaBlogging.com Steve Danso blogs about how technology can affect our business. He [...]

BarCamp Ghana 2009 took off to a great start here at MEST in Accra with Patrick Awuah delivering the keynote address. He cited examples from his experience at Microsoft and his current experience with Ashesi University, to drive home the importance of key values like honesty, integrity, trust etc. The theme of this year’s event [...]