Over the last few years, there have been many developments in the consumer payments space in Africa, led by the explosive growth of mobile money. It doesn’t seem to be slowing down ever since its introduction over fifteen years ago.
Despite this, online subscriptions still seem incredibly hard to crack for most countries.
Reading Time: 5 minutes… my typical day in tech on the “dark” continent.
Most days I wake up pretty late. 8am on a good day. The first thing I do is reach out for my phone. I check the time, and scroll through a series of notifications to find out whether or not a server just exploded, or more realistically, if a Russian bot finally discovered the SSH port of my production server and client emails have been down for 6 hours.
Reading Time: 7 minutesSometimes I’m the biggest impediment to my own progress.
Three weeks ago, I wrote about my experiences as a tech entrepreneur in Africa. I had told my friends that I’d write a second post if I got 15+ recommends.
I didn’t really expect it to be “good enough” to go viral, but that article now has over 490 recommends and has been republished on Startup Grind. The republished article has picked up 50+ more recommends and is growing by the day. I guess I’m not doing too bad.
And yet somehow, I still d̶i̶d̶n̶’̶t̶ don’t feel confident about publishing this post. My mind has a funny way of playing tricks on me, often leading me to overestimate my ability in certain areas and underestimate them in others.
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo, tonight, I decided to benchmark my mobile phone connections.
From all the media and advertising, it would appear that both Airtel Malawi and TNM Malawi claim to have the fastest mobile Internet in Malawi.
It’s obvious that at least one of these claims must be false, and I just wanted to find out the truth.