You might have noticed a lack of posts, or at least an erratic nature to my blogging over the last 6 weeks. This is due to the fact that I’ve been packing up and getting ready to move my family back to Kenya after living the last few years in the US. ...

It all started with a TED Fellowship to Arusha, Tanzania in 2007, and today it’s a great honor to be selected as one of the inaugural 20 TED Senior Fellows, especially as it’s in the company of people that I know and respect greatly. It’s also neat to...

Africa has 415,010,625 mobile phone subscribers, with an average growth rate across the continent of 5.4% between Q1 and Q2 2009. Blycroft does an excellent job of aggregating data on African mobile phone markets each quarter. They’ve compiled their...

South African Startup Index The Business Report is running a South African Startup Index using YouNoodle’s API. Quite cool, I’d love to see someone do this for startups across Africa. The Malawian Who Harnessed the Airwaves Really, it’s an...

Jon Gosier’s Appfrica Labs has put together an amazing infographic on internet connectivity in Africa. Amazing work! “The African continent is rapidly changing. In the next two years 2 billion dollars will bring 12 terabits of connectivity to the...