20 Interesting and Informative Maps of Africa Infographics Map is a representation, usually on a plane surface, of a region of the earth or heavens according to thefreedictionary.com, although many maps are static two-dimensional, geometrically accurate (or approximately accurate) representations [...]
Big Brother Africa is the African version of the Big Brother reality game show. For those unfamiliar with the show, it’s a reality TV show that involves “a group of people living together in a large house, isolated from the outside world and continuously [...]
Africa Top 10 Internet Countries: Internet Penetration & Usage A lot of investments have been made in Africa’s Internet and Broadband sector between 2009 and now, with most parts of Africa gaining access between 2009 and 2010, according to reports, wholesale [...]
Africa is the second-largest continent, after Asia, in both size and population; it is located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by the Indian Ocean at about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million [...]
BEST Companies to work for (South Africa’s Best Employers) updated on April 17, 2013 The Corporate Research Foundation (CRF) Institute is an institute that identifies top performers in the areas of HR, leadership and strategy, it reviews pay and benefits, [...]
Africa is the new frontier for entrepreneurship based on disruptive new business models. We are beginning to see many success stories emerging from the continent of Africa, many African entrepreneurs are now pioneering innovative solutions, creating new markets, solving persistent problems, and [...]
“Social networking” has been around for a long time. It simply means the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighbourhood subdivision in such a way that they are able to communicate, interact and expand in number, in [...]
In 2012, Silicon Cape which is a community of tech entrepreneurs, developers, creatives, angel investors, and VC’s who are passionate about entrepreneurship and the roles we play in the future of South Africa conducted a survey titled “The State of South Africa’s Tech Startup Industry” [...]
A good web hosting is very crucial to any website or online business, it is one of the basic foundation of your online business and should always be treated as part of a whole, if your host has a problem, [...]
Africa’s Most Popular websites – Top 50 It will be very interesting to know the top 50 Most visited websites in Africa and there’s one websites that knows how to rank websites based on their popularity worldwide, therefore in compiling [...]
Ten Positive Roles of Satellite Internet Providers in Rural Development of Africa A general internet connection offers speeds up to 100Mbps, which is pretty good. The only issue is that there are still quite a lot of regions where it is [...]
Hope City Technology Metropolis to Host Africa’s Tallest Building Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, has officially launched a project dubbed Hope City, the project will cost $10bn (£6.6bn) and will create 50,000 jobs, the project which is expected to be completed [...]
This is a contribution by Answers Africa: A Tech Talk Africa Publishing Partner Top 10 Most Technologically Advanced Countries in Africa Technology is growing very rapidly with United States at the fore front while Europe and Asia is also within [...]
It was a serious problem for the thirteen-year-old bright Kenyan Richard Turere when hungry lions started attacking his family’s precious herd of cattle. So the little boy had to devise an innovative low-tech but ingenious solution to tackle the problem [...]
Surprisingly, a new survey (Accenture’s 2013 Consumer Electronics Products and Services Usage Report) has revealed that South Africans spent more on consumer technology in 2012 than the average US consumer, it was also discovered that South Africans spent more than many [...]
A notable champion of inter-African trade and business cooperation, and Chairman of Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Ayoola Oba Otudeko, has accepted to be the chairman of the forthcoming Digital Africa Conference & Exhibition, slated for April 23-25, 2013 in Abuja. Convener [...]
One of the many questions that usually pop up when entrepreneurship is discussed is whether entrepreneurs are born or made. Like most things in life there is no simple answer, but our experience of working with entrepreneurs has given us [...]
Kenya’s $10 billion Silicon Savannah dream has finally become a dream come true true, President Kibaki commissioned the first Technology City in Africa last week before vacating office The project is expected to transform Kenya into a “Silicon Savannah,” the Silicon [...]
Most Beautiful Cities in Africa Although this is not purely tech and a bit outside the usual tech we normally write about here but I think it’ll be worthwhile to do something like this every once in awhile to spice [...]
Eric Schmidt,, the former CEO of Google recently visited some cities in the sub-saharan Africa and came up with this, insightful I must say and I hope you’ll find it interesting. a) the despotic leadership in Africa from the 1970s and [...]
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