Business & founders stories across Africa
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Inventors, engineers and new ideas from across the continent.
The Kenyan lawyer and blogger co-created the Ushahidi crisis-mapping platform and co-founded Mzalendo, a parliamentary watchdog site, before moving into venture investing.
A Ghanaian technologist who studied astrophysics, Bright Simons founded mPedigree to help people verify products and expose counterfeit medicines.
In Malawi in 2001, a teenager read a library book, collected bicycle parts and blue gum trees, and built a turbine that powered his family’s house.
In 1991 Herman Chinery-Hesse co-founded theSOFTtribe in Accra, an African software house that became the oldest and largest in Ghana. He died in 2024; his work…
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