My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. Jessica Anuna’s Klasha wants to bring the global fashion industry to the African continent with ease and convenience. Although starting out as a fashion e-commerce company, Klasha is now building technology integrations […]
Cameroon’s strange and short-lived phone tax law NOVEMBER 1, 2020 This newsletter is a weekly in-depth analysis of tech and innovation in Africa that will serve as a post-pandemic guide. Subscribe here to get it directly in your inbox every Sunday at 3 pm WAT. Hello, As I write this, the Jumia shares on my […]
My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. Joanna Bichsel wanted to build something for women. So she launched Kasha, named after her second child, and possibly Africa’s first femtech e-commerce platform. Kasha is now present in Rwanda and Kenya […]
An online marketplace, Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), has launched to provide the purchase, volume aggregation, quota management, payment facilitation as well as logistics & transportation of COVID-19-related medical equipment across the African continent. The project is a collaborative effort between Janngo—the social startup studio founded by former Jumia Chief Executive Officer (Ivory Coast) Fatoumata […]
Flutterwave has launched an ecommerce product in a show of ambition to expand use cases among existing and new merchants. It is called Flutterwave Store and is designed to enable small businesses to have an online directory for displaying and taking orders for their products. Users can upload products, set prices and, in some cases, […]
View this email in your browser A TechCabal roundup of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on tech & innovation in Africa APRIL 19, 2020 This newsletter is a weekly special focused on the effect of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 on African tech and innovation ecosystems. Subscribe here to get it directly in your inbox every […]