Promoting Africa
Founded by a young Tunisian 20 years old, Yahya Bouhlel, GoMyCode is a Tunisian training school, intended for all those who wish to learn to code, and to set up their own start-up. Yahya Bouhlel started coding at age 14, and at the age of 16, got the chance to participate in an internship at…
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Sesinam Dagadu a Ghanian entrepreneur, has created a mobile application, SnooCode, that uses a computer algorithm to generate a unique code – for any location – which then serves as an address. SnooCode generates a unique code for each location thanks to the system of location of smartphones, to replace the addresses, almost nonexistent. Once the…
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Young Ugandan Brian Turyabagye, invented a biochemical smart jacket, called Mamaope, which detects pneumonia 3 to 4 times faster than the orthodox doctors’ detection. In Sub-Saharan Africa, pneumonia kills half a million children aged five and below every year; this accounts for half of all global deaths of children under five from pneumonia (UNICEF). Unfortunately, not enough…
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Afrimalin is the website for free classified ads in French-speaking Africa, currently present in eight countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal. Afrimalin is a marketplace, which has successfully professionalized the payment and delivery of products purchased online. The site offers individuals and professionals, craftsmen and traders,…
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Flutterwave is a Nigerian owned and San Francisco based company, that provides a payment platform that makes it easier for banks and businesses to process payments in local currencies across the African continent. "Roughly two-thirds of the adults on the African continent remain unbanked and card penetration is low. Yet, a Mckinsey Gallup data showed 54 percent of…
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Douglas Mbiandou, a 41-year-old Cameroonian entrepreneur, wants to train 10,000 coders in Africa. Since 2005, its learning center, OBJIS, has already contributed to the continuous training of more than 3,000 people in France. Forming "10,000 coders" in Africa, is one of Douglas Mbiandou's biggest projects, whose objective is to make the African continent the first…
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Presenting Lakheni, a South African initiative that uses group buying power to lower food prices for needy communities, using a mobile app. We all know that buying in bulk can lead to great savings. However, lower-income earners (who often live a long way from grocery stores), do not have the means to purchase items in large quantities. On…
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