Yarnpad is a Twitter clone we found out about from Loy Okezie, who stated With so much love for Twitter, yet another Twitter-clone has been launched on the micro-blogging space. This time, YarnPad! has emerged from Nigeria and lets you “see wetin people they yarn about”, that is, what people are talking about. Founded by Deji Kadri and Victor Sylva, [...]

Zuqka is a Kenyan video sharing platform, which works primarily like notable video sharing sites like Vimeo and Youtube. At Zuqka you can watch the collection of videos uploaded by the community or add your own after a quick sign up. Zuqka also offers you the ability to blog, which is a feature not usually [...]

According to research by Pyramid Research the number of broadband users in Africa will increase from the current 40 million to 95 million by 2015. The increase is mostly due to the new undersea cables and Wimax connections. Also of note is the increased governemnt participation in technology, starting with the Kenyan governmentwhich invested in the [...]

Izogmovies is a Nigerian start-up which streams Nollywood movies online. At Izogmovies you can watch one free film after sign up, or pay the membership fee to access their entire database.  The start-up claims to have over 3  000 films for people to choose from. Izogmovies is in stiff competition with online piracy, or people [...]

Cashenvoy can be described as Nigeria’s Paypal. The service allows you to send and receive money as well as make payments to Cashenvoy enabled websites. Cashenvoy seems like a start-up with potential, but for them to succeeed they face tough obstacles. A few amongst these include Low levels of trust with local consumers Competition with [...]

Zoopy, the South African social media platform has created a new iPhone application. The new application allows you to navigate Zoopy  and upload and share content from your iPhone. The app gives you all the functionality you need to enjoy Zoopy on the run, from browsing featured items, channels and Zoopy TV shows through to [...]

We had an informative interview with Mr. Fritz Ekwoge Ekwoge, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Kerawa and founded Iyam.mobi. This is the second interview we had with Mr. Ekwoge Ekwoge, the first occurred in 2007. In this interview we discussed Cameroonian tech and the recent Barcamp Cameroon 2010. TechMasai: What is Barcamp Cameroon 2010? Mr. Ekwoge Ekwoge: Barcamp [...]

The Naijaborn founders are making a few interesting moves into the West African technology market. The team which includes Francis Oghuma from Nigeria and Mambe Nanje Churchill from Cameroon made a splash with their Nigerian start-up Naijaborn. Naijaborn has a techie cult following and support for being custom coded and featuring a unique design and approach to [...]

Naijaborn is a custom coded Nigerian social network founded by Francis Oghuma and Mambe Nanje Churchill in April of 2009. The social network has received considerable praise since its launch for its innovative design -with a lean towards artists- and for being entirely custom coded by the founders. Naijaborn is unique from other social networks [...]

Majibu is an African Question and Answer service. At Majibu you can place a question of any type to the community, and they will hopefully give you a reply with helpful answers. At Question and answer services like Majibu they fill in the gaps left by services like Wikipedia, and Google due to the nature of [...]