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Guest post by Charles Onyango-Obbo, highlighting innovative projects tackling entrenched gender inequality among African women entrepreneurs. As ride-hailing apps proliferate the globe, An Nisa Taxi in Kenya is one of the standouts in Africa. Developed by 33-year-old Mehnaz Sarwar, An Nisa is run by women and serves female passengers... -
Google is offering 30,000 scholarships to aspiring and existing developers to improve their employability skills and advance their careers. Don’t miss this opportunity. Building upon our pledge to provide mobile developer training to 100,000 Africans to develop world class apps, today we are pleased to announce the next round... -
The World Bank’s subsidiary International Finance Corporation (IFC) will invest USD $6 Million in technology startups in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa and other African countries.... -
The Programme is a 10-year, $100 million commitment to identify, train, mentor and fund 10,000 African entrepreneurs. The Programme’s objective is to generate at least 1,000,000 new jobs and create at least $10 billion in new business revenue across Africa.... -
Cameroonian Tech-entrepreneur and CEO of AppsTech; Rebecca Enonchong has been elected into the United Nations (UN) Africa Digital Identity Advisory Board. Cameroonian born technology entrepreneur, Rebecca Enonchong has been elected into the United Nations (UN) Africa Digital Identity Advisory Board, chaired by Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and an Ethiopia’s... -
19-Year-Old Ethiopian Tech Prodigy, Betelhem Dessie is leading the charge to get more young Ethiopian women into coding and Artificial Intelligence. In Ethiopia, 19-year-old Betelhem Dessie has quickly risen from a young pioneer to a leading figure in the tech community. She handles five projects and has seven patents... -
CEO of ArchXenus, Nana Akua Birmeh and her team of women Architects are on a mission to redesign Ghana’s skylines with dazzling new ideas and designs. Somewhere in Accra, Ghana, there’s a group of women who are attempting to redesign the city’s skyline and with the evidence on show, they’re... -
An all-inclusive hub; Ho Node in the Volta Region is offering digital skills training, business support and a conducive space to female entrepreneurs. The demand for capable personnel with digital skills is soaring as more companies are undergoing digital transformations. However the supply of these skilled personnel is low.... -
Ten questions interview series with Oluwatoyin Sanni, Software Developer at Andela and co-founder of TechInPink, a tutorial based startup from Nigeria. ...
