“Lewis Rothschild: You have a deeper love of this country than any man I’ve ever known. And I want to know what it says to you that in the past seven weeks, 59% of Americans have begun to question your patriotism. President Andrew Shepherd: Look, if the people want to…
Author: Lord Banks
Lord Banks
The Convener of TechCabal. No more digital high fives. Just practical, no frills, hard-hitting, in your face African tech talk.
Just a couple of days ago, at the 2013 Mobile Web West Africa precisely, Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter announced that they had set up SPARK, a $1 million venture that will invest in Nigeria’s most talented tech entrepreneurs Nigerian startups. What fascinated me was the fact that they had already…
If you’ve been following us, you would know all about Shopp!ng. But on the off-chance that you haven’t heard about the new Nigerian e-commerce player that could possibly get things really going in that space, please read about it here.Armed with that context, it might interest you to know that…
Image Credit: The PunchI can’t get over this recent Punch report that puts the volume of mobile money subscribers in Nigeria at 400,000. Here’s the the offending excerpt –“A new survey…
It’s official. E-commerce is where it’s happening right now in Nigeria. It’s not like it’s news, I’m just saying it for the benefit of those whom the memo might have somehow skipped their desks.But even those of you who think you’ve seen everything can’t afford to so much as blink…
By virtually any standard, Jumia is Nigeria’s biggest e-commerce platform, and miles away from the rest. They would however do well to pay a little more attention to their rear-view mirror. Of late, there’s reason to believe that their strongest contender, Konga, will be closing that gap in 2013. While Konga started with…