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For decades, Africa has earned its living from what lies under the ground. Africa gaming industry growth and investment now point to a different kind of export, one that ships through an app store instead of a port. The people building it say the continent’s next big story may be written in code, art and […]
KAMPALA: Someone standing in a village with no mast in sight can now make a call from an ordinary phone. The Airtel Uganda Starlink direct-to-cell service went live on September 24, connecting compatible smartphones straight to satellites overhead. How Starlink Mobile Works The service, branded Starlink Mobile, runs on a constellation of about 650 satellites […]
The fading facades of century-old buildings in a neighborhood of the Nigerian megacity of Lagos house a vibrant technology cluster that’s caught the eye of Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The Yaba area, home to the Yaba College of Technology and the University of Lagos, is an emerging technology ecosystem — from fewer than […]
In the past few years, the unprecedented growth of mobile financial services in sub-Saharan Africa has defied all expectations. While Kenya is often cited as a leading example of digital transformation, Ghana has recently become the fastest-growing mobile money market in Africa, with registered accounts increasing six-fold between 2012 and 2017. The country’s experience provides […]