Two very important days in your life as an African are the day you get your first phone and the day you open your first bank account. Are these days about to become a thing of the past? — I come from Malawi. A country where only 12% of the population have access to electricity, 36% have access to mobile and 19% have a bank account. In the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, the story isn’t very different

Every time you dial *XYZ# to check the airtime balance on your phone, you are using a decades old technology standard called USSD. For a very long time, that’s pretty much all it was used for, but now the game has changed. USSD stands for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data and…

Every time you dial *XYZ# to check the airtime balance on your phone, you are using a decades old technology standard called USSD. For a very long time, that’s pretty much all it was used for, but now the game has changed. USSD stands for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data and…

Being a member of Generation Y is tricky. For those who may not be in the know, Generation Y basically refers to millennials, basically, persons reaching young adulthood around the year 2000. People like me-ish (If you consider 2012–16 close enough to the year 2000 to count. It’s extra tricky…

… my typical day in tech on the dark continent. Most days I wake up pretty late. 8am on a good day. The first thing I do is reach out for my phone. I check the time, and scroll through a series of notifications to find out whether or not…

— African Tech Entrepreneur — Sometimes, I’m the biggest impediment to my own progress. Three weeks ago, I wrote about my experiences as a tech entrepreneur in Africa. I had told my friends that I’d write a second post if I got 15+ recommends. I didn’t really expect it to be “good enough” to go…

Sometimes I’m the biggest impediment to my own progress. Three weeks ago, I wrote about my experiences as a tech entrepreneur in Africa. I had told my friends that I’d write a second post if I got 15+ recommends. I didn’t really expect it to be “good enough” to go…

Sometimes I’m the biggest impediment to my own progress Three weeks ago, I wrote about my experiences as a tech entrepreneur in Africa. I had told my friends that I’d write a second post if I got 15+ recommends. I didn’t really expect it to be “good enough” to go…

On Building Technology while Young, Black, and in Africa — Being a startup founder anywhere in the world is incredibly hard, but in Africa, it’s a special kind of organized chaos. This is my story — and it’s not pretty. How Did I End Up Here? I’m nearly 24 years old, and over the last 8 years, I’ve built and launched 3 technology companies in Africa…