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Quartz Africa editor. Living at nexus of media, tech & finance/econs. Sign up to brief:

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  1. 13 hours ago

    This might already be the feel-good story of the year. Microsoft flew Richard Akoto out Singapore to attend an education conference And his students have received gifts of PCs from different sources via

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    16 hours ago

    Scramble for Africa; digital edition.

    Samsung is going to source cobalt directly from DR Congo for its phones' rechargeable batteries
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  3. 18 hours ago

    Australia wants to offer fast track visas for "persecuted" white farmers in South Africa via

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  4. 20 hours ago

    M-Kopa cut jobs in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania as it outsourced to a UK company tech company to stay profitable via

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    SEC charges as sick burns

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    Mar 14

    Ghana's Windows blackboard teacher and his students have had a rewarding outcome via

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  7. Mar 14

    Yowza!

    "Mourinho is starting to look like a washed-up rock star, one of those guys that goes around holiday hotels for pensioners playing old hits on an organ with the base & the percussion playing on a tape recorder” - Roberto Palomar (Marca) I do love a Spanish press roundup
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    Mar 14

    Smoking has risen 50% in Africa over three decades even as it drops in high-income regions via

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  9. Mar 14

    This is great

    Run the numbers: AT&T's $85 billion bid for Time Warner is in limbo – but the media company may be better off without it
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    Mar 13

    From , lots of potential for African start-ups in tech. Need to see more in ag. , , ,

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    Mar 13

    Great discussion at the panel. Biggest current tech hubs in the continent: , , , and .

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    Mar 13

    We’re at in Texas this week and excited for the upcoming session on funding the new wave of innovators and businesses in Africa. from , from , Emeka Afigbo wth and Omobola Johnson with TLcom Capital LLC

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  13. Mar 13

    Headline slapdown coming in 1...2...

    Vice taps female CEO to lead culture change
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  14. Mar 13

    Come to the session today at where we look beyond Silicon Valley for Africa's "Unicorns" /, /, /, / TLCom Capital.

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  15. Mar 13

    African startups in accelerators tend to have a better gender balance than their global peers via

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  16. Mar 13

    If this is true, and remains so, then all that anti-Brexit noise in the UK's southeast will soon go away...

    ⚡️ London house prices drop at the fastest pace since 2009, with the city’s most expensive areas seeing the biggest declines
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    Mar 12

    At ?! Come check out Andela's discuss building alongside & moderated by of tomorrow @ 2pm!

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    Mar 12

    A few weeks before releasing '18 , gives us an insight into the role of such hubs today: "The way & enable is not necessarily broken but it does need tweaking"

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  19. Mar 12

    "If you want to steal, steal a little cleverly, in a nice way. Only if you steal so much as to become rich overnight, you will be caught." - Mobutu Sese Seko Kinshasa's informal economy is trapped by a corrupt "tax" system via

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  20. Mar 12

    Won't spend the night in Nigeria.... heh heh....

    U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cut his trip to Africa short by about a day to deal with pressing matters in the U.S.
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