With regards to Africa, Ghana has been a “pioneer” in so many ways- from being the first African country to gain independence from colonial powers, to being the first African country south of the Sahara to host the “first” African-American president of the United States of America.
Needless to say that Barack Obama visit to Ghana [...]

I have always heard gators were dangerous, but boy have I had fun playing with this one.

(In case you haven’t already figured it out, that’s me up there)

I first learnt about Gatorpeeps from Oluniyi David Ajao’s review of Bar Camp Nigeria 2009 (which I really should have attended but for the most inevitable [...]

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Mobile telecommunications giant- MTN has announced the launch of
its 3.5 G service in Ghana.
The service, which uses high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technology, was announced at an impressive ceremony at the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons in Accra.
Speaking at the launching themed
“Go Beyond, Experience our better life today”, Chief Executive Officer, MTN [...]

The Tramigo T22- a Personal Asset Tracking Device is set for its official launch in Ghana later today. Tramigo T22 is “the world’s first truly plug and play portable tracking device available for all the GSM markets”.
Tramigo T22 can be used for hundreds of different purposes and in as many ways; when ever you need [...]

Nigeria’s already damaged online reputation was further tarnished today, with news coming in that a Nigerian undergraduate has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for obtaining $47,000 (33,382 pounds) from an Australian woman by convincing her over the Internet that he was 57 years old, white, and madly in love with her.
According to media [...]

When Craig Newmark started his “email list for friends and co-workers about events going on in the San Francisco Bay Area“ in 1995, he probably never thought that his hobby would grow to become one of the “busiest sites on the internet, helping people with basic day-to-day needs such as finding a job, an apartment [...]

Friday, 30th January marked the end of a revolution. Like most unsuccessful revolutions, this one lasted for only a short while, and was abruptly ended by a much more powerful force.
Julian McIntyre tried to make it as an investment banker, but fell in love with Africa instead. He worked at Deutsche Bank in his early [...]

Problems affecting the development and use of Information Technology in West Africa have been a major topic of discussion and concern for eons, encompassing  discourse from various IT experts the world over, and even the average individual.
Over the years, in most parts of West Africa, the development of Information Technology has been hampered, largely due [...]

In an earlier post, I commented on “Cloud Computing” and its expected changes to the way we …. errr ….. compute? As I began to try to imagine what the future of computing would be like, especially in Africa- specifically West Africa- one troubling issue that comes to mind is the low rate of Internet [...]