Africa, Unemployment & Commerce

High levels of unemployment have compelled almost everyone – in Cameroon and across Sub-Saharan Africa- to engage in commerce i.e. start selling something to earn money. Commerce has thus become a major pathway out of poverty, into a job or even to complement existing jobs. This has created fertile ground for the proliferation of network …

Local Solutions for a Sustainable Digital Economy

A little over a month ago (10/11/22) during the just-ended Silicon Mountain Conference – SMCON22, I had the privilege to give a keynote talk on the event’s theme: “Local Solutions for a Sustainable Digital Economy.” I walked the audience through a virtual world wherein individuals, startups, companies, and the government consume or buy local solutions …

Why Hyperlocal E-commerce Could Be Ideal in Africa

In my “why conventional e-commerce hasn’t scaled in Africa” article, I talked about how logistics and infrastructure were missing pieces in the puzzle to enable e-commerce scale across Africa. In this write-up, let’s have a look at a new concept-:Hyperlocal E-commerce – and how it could be the key to unlocking scalable digital commerce in …

Tech in Africa Is Sales First Before Innovation

Building a tech company in Africa is very, very difficult. If building a tech company in the US is 7 on a scale of 0 to 10 with 0 being easy and 10 being hard, then building a tech company in Africa is like 15. One mistake I made in the past was believing that …

Platforms

In the past 10 years, the technology world has been focusing a lot on web 2.0 or web 3.0 and a lot has been done in this regard which has led to the data foundations enabling machine learning and artificial intelligence. But no one seems to talk about the underlying blueprint that is at the center …

OSMOSIS

In science, Osmosis is defined as a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one. A more general definition is: Osmosis is the process of gradual or unconscious assimilation of ideas, knowledge, etc. This post is not about Osmosis, …

F=MA

The Force of a company is directly proportional to its Mass and its Acceleration. Therefore, the Force of a company is equivalent to a constant multiplied by the Mass of the company and the Acceleration. Since the above statement is true based on Newton’s Laws, this implies the mass of a company is inversely proportional …