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Two recent articles point to the scientific realities of the African continent and the potential it has for tremendously enhancing the sustainability of the growing world population. The first, published last year argues that the vastly uninhabited regions of the northern continent where the Saraha desert stretches, could be used to build massive solar farms [...]

Sarah Lacy is one of my favorite blogger/writers. I frequently use her piece “Why the Smart VCs Are Boarding their Jets” as an example of some of the many reasons why Africa is ripe for investment. Usually she’s nothing short of brilliant with a touch of insight that the Tech industry (especially in the US) [...]

Last month when Appfrica Labs relaunched Afridex, and I mentioned that more news was coming soon. Today I’m happy to make another big announcement on behalf of my team and our newest partner VC4Africa. The deal came about because of our mutual desire to support and promote for-profit investments into African startups and SMEs. Whereas [...]

Yahoo has had a troubled past couple of years. While they remain one of the more innovative companies on the web (see BOSS, SearchMonkey, and Y!UI) they seem to be hurting on the business side of things. Who knows why this is internally, but from the outside I see a lot of missed opportunity. Here’s [...]