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I don’t know how to say, “Book me the honeymoon suite at the Four Points hotel”, in Igbo or Hausa language. But if you do, Hotels.ng has you covered; a peek beyond the screen of your mobile devices, we explore interface design, and many other goodies in the Monday News Roundup.

The Wizard of Oz, grants a peek behind the curtain

Kenya’s mobile telecom firm, Safaricom, has opened up M-PESA’s API to developers. Quick, before they change their minds.

Hotel booking in 3 other languages

In case you’re thinking it’s a sweet, soft voice on the other end, translating the Jovago service for you, you’re out of luck. It’s code. Just cold, hard, code.

Lots of activity going on at 440

Investments, pitching, weekend events… All in a day’s work for the tech investment partnership. Oh, and DavtonLearn walked to the bank smiling.

SHE Leads’ hive is buzzing

Female Nigerian entrepreneurs are invited to the She Hive event (coolest name ever) later this month.

Features

We dive into our developer series with Uzo

Today’s class is about Interfaces. It’s a revolution, people. Refuse to stick with what “the man” wants you to use.

Sopuru: the kid with mad engineering skills

Somewhere in the heart of Enugu, is a young man with strong engineering mojo, just waiting for a helper. Someone who can help nurture and bring out the Henry Ford in him.

Not covered by TechCabal

MTN is starting its first fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments in the Western Cape

About a thousand people will be plugged in by year’s end.

Ibukun Taiwo Author

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