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This article was published on August 28, 2012

“There are more mobile phones in Uganda than light bulbs”: A chat with Mark Kaigwa about Africa


“There are more mobile phones in Uganda than light bulbs”: A chat with Mark Kaigwa about Africa
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Last week, Mark Kaigwa gave one of the most interesting presentations at the Media Evolution conference in Sweden. Naturally, I missed the session entirely because I was attending another one at the same time, but I’m very happy to say I caught up with him to hear him out.

Kaigwa is a Nairobi, Kenya-based digital marketing expert, consultant, startup founder and advisor, writer, short film maker and online media entrepreneur.

The man runs a few popular sites, including African tech and innovation blog Afrinnovator and online artist community AfricanDigitalArt.

He’s also a super nice guy.

We talked about mobile usage and penetration – there’s expected to be 735 million mobile phones in Africa alone by the end of this year – and a number of interesting technology services coming from and stats about Africa.

Some of them will no doubt surprise you … Enjoy the interview!

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