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This Week in Appfrica [March 29 - April 4]
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This week was, of course, was split by April Fools Day on Wednesday. We had some good fun with our readers.
April Fools Posts
Undersea Cable Arrives in Africa
Unfortunately, this wasn’t true but a lot of people fell for it which leads me to believe that most people only skim the articles that they read online, because anyone really digging into this post would have been tipped off by the fake-links directly to Wikipedia’s April Fools page and larger than life events like Mark Shuttleworth calling me from space!
Google South Africa to Open Theme Park
My other prank for the day was faux story about Google opening up a massive theme park in South Africa.
Editorials
Why Kelele Can’t Fail
The people organizing this pan-African blogger’s conference have so much weight be hind them. Corporate sponsors have lined up, Africa’s brightest talents are offering their time and energy and the event was launched out of Google’s special Barcamp Africa last year. Yet, even all that may not prevent it from never happening.
Things Still Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe’s masterpiece has never been more relevant but has history proven it hopelessly wrong about Africa?
News
Synthasite Rebrands as Yola
One of Africa’s biggest startups is changing it’s name.
The Last of Hitler’s Regime
Officers of Hitler’s Army have scattered all over the world, one of them may have been hiding out in Egypt for the past many years.
SXSWi 2009 Recap
I had the pleasure of attending SXSWi in Austin, Tx. Here’s a recap of how it went.
Appfrica Around the Web
BlackWeb2.0 has begun re-syndicating some of our content. First up was Part 1 and Part 2 of “Can Freeconomics Work in African Markets”.
Change.org has published my first of a series of articles about starting up as a social venture.
Vimeo has a video interview Jonathan Marks conducted with me at SXSW.
Mike Stopforth posted a short interview he conducted with myself and Erik Hersman of Ushahidi fame.