Africa’s 2015 Reality and a New Iteration of You
Some times my own words do not taste so sweet. I remember back in the 1980s, while living in Kenya, I told a group of non-profit workers that the big…
Kenya’s produce purchasing agents ride innovation wave
In 2010 John Waibochi, the founder, CEO, and chief innovator at Virtual City Group in Kenya, won the Nokia Growth Economy Venture Challenge. The award brought his company a US$1…
Innovation in Africa: Safe Farming
Africa's small scale farmers place all their hopes of harvest on rain. With the recent changes in weather patterns many of them have experienced low or no yields at all…
Innovation in Africa: Fareed Zein’s contribution to the birth of South Sudan
Fareed Zein, like many foreigners before him, came to the United States to study computer science and attempt to gain a better life than he would have in his native…
