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Any prospects for e-commerce in Africa?

Monday, October 1, 2007

This round-up first appeared at Global Voices. The past week turned out to be one that came with an interesting debate about the prospects of e-commerce in Africa. Oluniyi David Ajao started with throwing an insight into the popularity of e-gold (a digital gold currency) in Nigeria. Other online payment systems might indeed follow the same growth [...]

Is a common African e-commerce platform possible?

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

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This blog post is a direct response to Erik Hersman’s blog post: The problem with e-commerce and online payments in Africa. Erik Hersman, a fellow African blogger, shared his thoughts about the need for an African e-payment system. He starts with a lamentation that is indeed true: A lack of true online payment options is crippling African [...]