Erik Hersman asks us to shed outdated notions of Africa as a unified place plagued by starvation and war. Between mobile phone innovations like M-PESA, social networking like MXit and entrepreneurial spaces like Maker Faire Africa, Hersman sees innovation and entrepreneurship exploding within some of Africa’s—and the world’s—fastest growing economies.
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Fantastic disposition of Africa as the nexus of business in the 21st century. I am a Professor of Entrepreneurship currently on a Fulbright Fellowship at Texas A&M University and I do know the momentum availble in Kenya ,for example, for Business. We have a critical mass of educated youth( just like India) sitting under economic adversity and so ready to take off the ‘Steve Jobs’ style!
Well done!
Erik, ‘Umemulika Afrika’ if i may corruptly translate, it is swahili for you have ‘beamed’ Africa. You have layed the ‘WHITE PAPER’ at nose, eyes, ears & arms length. I have run an agency representing an American Corporate in East Africa for the last fourteen years, some innovation ideas have been generated as a way of ‘beating’ expensive & non adaptive developed world technologies. Hongera Bwana Erik
Resolve comes fastest from the ‘edge factor’.
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