When I asked Mbwana Alliy last month why he founded the Savannah Fund in Nairobi, he had a simple answer—it is East Africa’s technology hub. As part of PDE’s look at Africa I began last week, we focus today on Kenya.
Beyond Alliy, Kenya is also home to rock stars like Erik Hersman who co-founded the groundbreaking mapping website Ushahidi as well as iHub, Nairobi's thriving technology center. It also has a growing number of academic institutions joining the country’s entrepreneurship scene like the Strathmore iLab in Nairobi. It is also the home of DEMO Africa and the core meetings of the LIONS@frica partners.
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