A few months a go I wrote a post that questioned where the art movement of Africa existed and who was leading it. I covered the landscape of mainly contemporary African designers like typographer Saki Mafundikwa, photographer Simon Njami and fashion designer/writer G. Kofi Annan. I decided to follow up on this because [...]

Hiring the relatives of government officials, offering kickbacks of up to $400,000, locking small nations into multi-year contracts. No this isn’t a tale of the Mafia, it’s the story of Microsoft’s sales team in Africa…

CNET Networks UK has named South African Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth as the ‘IT Community Hero of the Year’…
Major IT publisher, CNET Networks UK, has named South Africa’s Mark Shuttleworth the IT Community Hero of the Year in its sixth annual UK Business Technology Awards, held in London last week.
The Awards celebrate the achievements of [...]

Governments in Africa may soon have to think twice about doing deals with private, closed-source software development companies. Linux developers in Kenya have taken a stand demanding that the government rethink policies that forgo local developers for big corporate groups that offer huge deals to win bids…
After losing out on many software tenders to [...]

Google usually never disappoints, but I must say when they released their web browser Chrome earlier this month I was less than impressed. First, many people perceived it as a slight against the Mozilla Foundation, the group that produces the open source Firefox web browser and the email client Thunderbird. Historically, Google has [...]

Today Appfrica launches its free software repository for African software developers. The goal is to provide a gratis space for developers who don’t have the resources, finances or access to such tools. It’s also our goal to begin teaching less fortunate students the fundamentals of programming using actual production resources like Subversion, [...]