In case you missed the memo, Africa is rising. Having been largely ignored in the development of the Internet, things have been changing rapidly in the past decade with telecommunication companies forming alliances with financial institutions to bring serious data connectivity into Africa, and with it, lots of potential for prosperity. You can thus understand [...]

DStv Mobile is not exactly a new service. It was initially launched in 2007 but with FIFA World Cup around the corner, Multichoice (operators of DStv) found a need to re-launch the DStv Mobile service. The re-launch is a born out of a collaboration between DStv, MTN (Africa’s leading telecom operator) and Nokia (world leading [...]

Big Brother Africa 2009 The Revolution hosted by Ikponmwosa “I.K.” Osakioduwa. Housemates would be from Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

In an unexpected twist of fate, Lucille from Namibia left the Big Brother Africa house in tonight’s eviction leaving Takondwa (alias TK) of Zambia with a smirk. There was tears, confusion, rage and anger in the few minutes following her eviction. I am not cool the rage expressed by Uti (Nigeria) following the announcement that [...]

I found out (to my pleasant surprise), while browsing through the Paypal website yesterday that the service is now accessible in more African countries. The recent expansion of Paypal is not limited to African countries but my focus is on Africa. Hitherto, South Africa had been the only African country supported by Paypal. The popular [...]