by Sizakele Masombuka. That something mystically special about Ghana is her people.
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African Echo: Ghana’s unique relationship with the world
by Lesego Thomas. In Ghana, success is shown in how regularly people engage with, and consume, international brands.
Talk Africa: The popularity of cellular networks in Pan-African social media
by Remon Geyser. In Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya, cellular network operators are growing in popularity among Facebook and Twitter users.
Smart Africa TV: Tigo Music rocking Ghana and Tanzania
by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) In this video interview, we talk to Stephen Lee, executive project manager, financial services & Africa at Millicom, talks about Tigo Music and organising the biggest music concerts ever in Ghana and Tanzania.
Do South Africans still Yahoo!?
Do South Africans still Yahoo!? Indeed they do. According to Apurimac Media, the sales representative for Yahoo! in sub-Saharan Africa, the site receives 1.5 million monthly visitors from South Africa generating 256 million page views.
Tablets leaking ad dollars to mobile from ‘Net – BuzzCity CEO
BuzzCity is a global mobile advertising network focused on emerging markets. In Africa this Singapore-based company, in which media giant Naspers owns a stake, does substantial business in South Africa (where it also has a sales office), Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana. It also sees significant growth in mobile traffic in African markets north of the Sahara.
[Netprophet 2011] African ecommerce market has a long way to go
A billion Africans and 50 million bank accounts. In South Africa, credit cards are used by only 16.5% of the population (2008). No African country comes close to 1% of total retail spend spent online – the magic figure which constitutes the tipping point for digital retail growth (in SA, ecommerce has a 0.4% share of the retail market, while in countries such as Egypt and Nigeria, the figure stands at 0.01%). No wonder, then, that the ecommerce market in Africa hasn’t bloomed.
Looking at these numbers, many international ecommerce plays have shifted investment in the African market 5-10 years down the line. But where others fear to tread Oliver Rippel, CEO ecommerce Africa & Middle East at MIH, sees opportunity and first-mover advantage.
For youth market mobile access to information and communication is the answer
Mobility no longer simply refers to motion, it has also come to describe the untethered use of technology on devices like smart phones, both of which seems to have come together in a perfect storm to enable the revolutions currently sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. Setting these revolutions in motion, is the youth, who organise and spread their message using social networks primarily accessed through mobile devices. These platforms are not only changing how young consumers engage with politics but also with commerce and one another.