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The potential for tech entrepreneurship in Africa

The tech sector in Africa is seen by many as having great potential, and we find out why.

The tech sector in Africa is seen by many as having great potential, and we find out why. Damilola Anwo-Ade runs web and mobile app development business Sprout Digital in Nigeria's capital Abuja, and says the energy, spirit and passion to be found in Africa is unmatched anywhere in the world. Markos Lemma of Ethiopian tech business consultancy Iceaddis discusses his recent meeting with Twitter's co-founder Jack Dorsey, who has announced he'll spend six months living in Africa during 2020. And Hillary Miller-Wise, chief executive of a Kenyan digital marketplace for small-scale African farmers called Tulaa explains how the service works. Also in the programme, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Theo Leggett discusses a batch of internal messages between Boeing staff that shed new light on problems at the plane maker in the run-up to two of its 737 Max planes crashing. Plus we meet two people who have been logging their expenditure for a new project on our Facebook group Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ My Money World.

(Picture: A woman uses a virtual reality headset in Kigali. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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27 minutes

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  • Fri 10 Jan 2020 22:32GMT