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…

This list rounds-up several web applications that claim to serve a ‘world-wide’ audience but who’ve fallen short on delivering to people outside of the U.S. and Europe, in most cases not for the lack of trying. It’s purely observational and not meant to be too critical. These are all services I use everyday, [...]

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Introducing Afridex: Crunchbase for Africa
Afridex is a start-up that indexes African business data, aggregates related information, and makes that data portable so that it can be embedded on [...]

When it comes to piracy, Africa is an especially tricky market. Most companies will state that markets in Africa are simply ‘too small’ to worry about, although it could be argued that if people paid for the software they use the market could grow. Despite this, Microsoft recently went after a major reseller of pirated [...]

This email from Bill Gates, circa 2003, raises some real questions. 1) If Gates is this much of a hard ass on usability, why does Microsoft continually fail at providing smartly designed, easy-to use product? 2) If even the boss rips into company products that have been released, why where they ever deployed in [...]