When many people around the globe hear expressions like ‘Africa for Africans’ and ‘Pan-Africanism’, they tend to associate it with the more militant movements of decades past. But there’s a new meme forming that I like to call Neo Pan-Africanism, the idea that Africa’s peoples have to take a more active role in the [...]

When Google flew me in to represent Appfrica.org at Barcamp Africa I could never have known how much the trip would actually impact my work. There was a lot of one degree of separation going on while I was in the Bay area. For instance, I met my business partners in Question Box [...]

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The bid news in African tech this week was all the conferences going on. Mobile Active, Barcamp Jozi and of course Barcamp Africa at Google Headquarters in [...]

Did you know you can stream Barcamp Africa live as it happens at Ustream.tv? No? Well now you do.
Barcamp Africa starts at 8:00am (California time) on Saturday October 11, 2008 at Google’s Mountain View campus so tune in.
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I’ve mentioned before that I started Appfrica with no external financing, it’s all privately funded by my work as a web developer. For now at least, that’s been the best way to execute my vision for helping African software developers take advantage of opportunity, learn new skills and offer them a space and the [...]

Can I just say that I love the ‘Barcamp’ format? I love the tempered disorganization, the surprise presentations, putting faces to people you’ve previously only met online. It all works and I’ve never attended at Barcamp that I didn’t take incredibly useful knowledge away from. The energy in the room at Barcamp Kampala [...]