StartUP Africa, Opportunity, S1, E3
Tech startups create opportunities for Africans across the continent. From the workplace, to the educational and environmental ecosystems, we look at how tech startups change the way we learn, the way...
View ArticleStartUP Africa, Farm to City, S1, E4
From Agritech, to moving goods across the continent, to fulfilling the African energy needs, young entrepreneurs push beyond limitations set before them to create innovative ways of using technology to...
View ArticleStartUP Africa, Health-Tech, S1, E5
Solving some of the most challenging health problems of the African continent, Health Tech startups are addressing problems ranging from access to medical care, infant and maternal mortality and rapid...
View ArticleStartUP Africa, Rise Up, S1, E6
In the wake of COVID-19 lockdowns, we follow up with CEOs featured throughout season one. They share how coronavirus impacted their businesses, how they adapted, and what opportunities arose as a...
View ArticleStartUP Africa, Health-Tech, S1, E5
Solving some of the most challenging health problems of the African continent, Health Tech startups are addressing problems ranging from access to medical care, infant and maternal mortality and rapid...
View ArticleStartUP Africa, Farm to City, S1, E4
From Agritech, to moving goods across the continent, to fulfilling the African energy needs, young entrepreneurs push beyond limitations set before them to create innovative ways of using technology to...
View ArticleStartUP Africa, Opportunity, S1, E3
Tech startups create opportunities for Africans across the continent. From the workplace to the educational and environmental ecosystems, we look at how tech startups change the way we learn, the way...
View ArticleStartUP Africa, Ride Share, S1, E2
Through the challenges and victories of young African entrepreneurs, we learn how tech startups are launching ride sharing businesses to address the problems of traffic congestion, safety, and cost of...
View ArticleStartUP Africa, E-Pay, S1, E1
This scene setter episode asks the questions, “What is a Startup?” and “What does ‘Starting Lean’ mean?” Through the lens of e-pay startups, episode one illustrates the problems that startups solve and...
View ArticleStartUP Something...
COMING SOON: Season 2 of StartUP Africa Fall 2021.StartUP Africa is just who we are and what it is most important: our dreams about the Africa we are building. – Kimenyi Aimable, founder and CEO,...
View ArticleTech Program Turns Low Income S. Africa Girls Into High Achievers
Women are woefully underrepresented in technology, science, engineering and mathematics jobs in South Africa. But for the last decade, a homegrown, UNICEF-supported program has worked to bring 11,000...
View ArticleTech Startups Move Forward in Africa
The Afrobytes and Viva Tech conferences in Paris this week have provided an opportunity to look at the progress that high-tech startups have made in Africa, where fundraising is booming. According to...
View ArticleAfrican Women in Tech Working to Close Digital Divide
Women from across Africa are meeting at the annual Women in Tech Africa Week, hoping to bring more women into the tech industry and combat inequalities in technology use and access, especially for...
View ArticleAfrican Women in Tech Look to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence took center stage as African female technology experts met at Women in Tech Week in Ghana to promote women's involvement in the field. When Lily Edinam Botsyoe was studying...
View ArticleWhen Did You Last See an African Video Game Hero?
What’s wrong with being a plucky hero running from demon monkeys or a glamorous model in dress up games? Players too often get sucked into worlds full of violence and unhealthy body images, according...
View ArticleMalawi is Home to Africa's First Drone Academy
Malawi this month opened the first African Drone and Data Academy, with support from the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF. The academy aims to improve drone technology skills across Africa,...
View ArticleInvestors, Entrepreneurs Meet in Silicon Valley to Discuss African Investment
Barbara Birungi Mutabazi has a vision: Train Ugandan women to code and do other technology work."The beauty of this is that even if there are not enough jobs in Uganda, if you have the right skills,...
View ArticleRecruiting Tech Volunteers to Fight COVID-19 in Ethiopia
A Washington-based software developer is recruiting other techies to combat the spread of the new coronavirus in his native Ethiopia, following the lead of countries such as China and South Korea with...
View ArticleStartUP Africa, E-Pay, S1, E1
This scene-setter episode asks the questions, “What is a Startup?” and “What does ‘Starting Lean’ mean?” Through the lens of e-pay startups, episode one illustrates the problems that startups solve and...
View ArticleStartUP Africa, Ride Share, S1, E2
Through the challenges and victories of young African entrepreneurs, we learn how tech startups are launching ride-sharing businesses to address the problems of traffic congestion, safety, and cost of...
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