The fast-changing digital economy presents enormous prospects for the emerging economies of Africa. In Africa, the digital economy has emerged as an unstoppable giant that is growing at an unprecedented pace. Supporting this assertion, innovation commentators have conveniently argued that in the twenty-first century, we can ground the conditions for economic growth less on the accumulation of things and more on the flow of information, less on geographic centrality and more on electronic connectivity, and less on expanding consumption of scarce resources and more on intelligent management.
The twentieth century saw the economic rise of Asia through the significant economic rise of the “Asian Tiger” countries (Kojima 2000; UNCTAD 1996). But the twenty-first century has been dubbed the African century (Wikipedia 2016). Tech Crunch, renowned technology media company, recently published an article entitled “The Future Is African” (Nash 2015), which aptly described how Africa is unleashing innovation by combining mobile and Web technology to lead the world in the twenty-first century – the KINGS countries are leading this wave.
On 19th September 2025, we will be welcoming the 12th Angel Fair Africa (aka AFA@12) to Google’s 9th Avenue offices in New York City. Angel
On 12th May 2005 when Alex Bram, Ernest Apenteng and Leslie Gyimah set out right after college on the mission of making Short Messaging System
“I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.” Among other philosophies, these timeless words from Kwame