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MTN, Jumia Partner To Boost E-commerce In Nigeria

Nigeria’s largest telecommunications network, MTN has partnered with online retail store, Jumia, to enable customers who purchase mobile phones from the store gain free access to the digital world for six.

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Lagos-based Internet group, SPARK Raises $2m For Nigerian Internet Startups

Lagos-based Internet group, SPARK has raised a $2 million investment from a syndicate of 17 international investors, based on a $10 million valuation for its network of Nigerian internet startups. The investment.

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Africa’s Top 20 Tech Influencers

Africa’s technology landscape is vast and growing. It is ripe for expansion and is increasingly becoming an attractive environment for companies (local and international) to set up shop and invest..

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Screw The Startups, Africa Needs More Netrepreneurs

It’s the dream of any tech-person: come up with an idea or concept that you can build up and sell off for millions. Consider something as banal as Draw Something.

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Tony Elumelu On Africapitalism

The answer to Africa’s development challenge is in the hands of Africans not Americans, Europeans, or Chinese. The answer will not come from Development Bank initiatives, aid incentives, or relief.

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JUMIA: A Local African Entrepreneurial Success Story

Two young West Africans are taking e-commerce to the next level in Africa’s most populous nation – and soon to be the continent’s largest economy – Nigeria. Exploring the huge.

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Silicon Valley Icons Launch $10M Seed Fund for African Tech

A new seed capital fund committed to finding and investing in high-potential East African “pre-revenue” startups was launched Wednesday in Nairobi, Kenya. Savannah Fund, an East African-focused accelerator fund, aims.

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