In the same ghostmode moves, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has landed in Nairobi, Kenya.
He has even met with Joseph Mucheru, the Kenyan Cabinet Secretary of Information and Communications and he tried local dish, Ugali and fried Tilapia for lunch. He actually went to a local joint, MAMA Oliech Restaurant.. As he often says, he likes trying the local food when he goes to a new country. He tried Nigerian jollof rice, snails and fried goat met when he was in Nigeria.
According to Mark, he is in Nairobi to meet with entrepreneurs and developers, and to learn about mobile money — where Kenya is the world leader.
He started at iHub, a place where entrepreneurs can build and prototype their ideas.
Here, he met developers and entrepreneurs:
- Edna Kwinga, Chief Human Resource Officer and Marie Amuti, UX designer at Twiga Foods, a mobile based-business-to-business supplier of fresh fruits and vegetables.
- Eric Thimba and Porgie Gachui co-founders of Mookh, a digital payments start-up.
- Wandia Gichuru, CEO, and Makena Mutwiri, Head of Marketing of Vivo Active Wear, an online women’s clothes store does most of its business via Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. The transactions are conducted with mobile money.
Zuckerberg also spent some time hanging out with developers in The Community Space and marveling over the ingenuity of BRCK, an American-owned, Kenya-based start-up that built a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure.
No doubt he might also go to the Andela office in Kenya.
Would he have the time to reach South Africa? Let’s wait and see.
