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The Complete List Of The Top African Technology Startups Of 2009

2009 September 20
by Munashe Gumbonzvanda

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We wrote a list of African technology startups which have amassed a following or at the very least raised awareness about themselves in the Africa cyberspace in 2009. The list is below

  • 24.com: A South African destination portal in the vein of Yahoo
  • Afrigator: An African aggregrator, based in South Africa
  • Africanpath: An African destination portal and Social network
  • Afrikeo: An African news Aggregrator
  • Afrigadget: African low end technology blog
  • Afroromance: A dating site
  • Afrovibe: African music centered social network
  • Akopo: French nased African blogging platform and aggregrator
  • Akouba: A Congolese microblogging platform
  • Alarena: An African Matchmaker
  • AllAfrica: Pan African news and information portal
  • AmaRadio: A Desktop application
  • Amatomu: South African blog aggregrator
  • BabaWatoto: An online store for Kenyans
  • Blogspirit: Ugandan blog aggregrator
  • Blueworld: South African Social Network
  • Bundublog: African blogging platform
  • Chesscube: Social and game platform for you guessed it. Chess
  • eNow Now: A service for tracking traffic in Lagos, Nigeria
  • FrontLine SMS: An grassroots initiative to use mobile phones for social change
  • GhanaMusic: A Music and Gossip portal for Ghana
  • Got Issuez: A Quality Control Community, for and by the public based in East Africa
  • Ijol: South African event tracker
  • Izogmovies: Watch Nigerian movies online
  • Jiqa: A South African browser with innovative social features
  • KenTV: A Online Kenyan news show, and information portal
  • Kenya Social Network: A Kenyan Social network
  • Kerawa: African online classifieds service
  • Kukurooku: A Micro-blogging platform based on bird terminology
  • Maneno: A Multi-lingual blogging platform
  • Mibli: Grants powers to ordinary mobile phone
  • Mtaafm: African music portal for Artists
  • Mtaatv:
  • Muti: South African social bookmarking platform
  • Mxit: Mobile IM Client for South Africa
  • MyVideo: South African video sharing platform
  • NiajaLingo: Online dictionary for Nigerian pidgin/broken english terminology
  • Naijaborn: Nigerian Social Network
  • Naijapals: One of the biggest Nigerian Social Networks
  • Naijapulse: A Micro-blogging platform for Nigerians
  • NairaList: Online classifieds for Nigerians
  • ngBot: A Nigerian Mobile community
  • Nubly: A directory of Nigerians on microblogging platforms
  • Online Nigeria: Nigerian Social Network
  • Pambazuka: Social Science meets pan African news
  • RiRanWo: Many things but foremost a Nigerian media aggregrator
  • Sturvs: A Nigerian Social Bookmarking platform
  • The Grid: South African mobile Social Network
  • Turenchi: A Nigerian News Aggregrator
  • Twyka: A East African microblogging platform
  • Uchuuzi: A Kenyan online supermarket
  • Ushahidi: Crowd-sources crisis information
  • View Naija: Nigerian video sharing platform and community
  • Vottle: A South African online classified
  • Zoopy: A South African video and picture sharing community
  • Zoopedup: A South African based Social network based around automobiles

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  1. February 26, 2010

    you should check out http://www.veepiz.com. Its only 2 months old but is getting mad traffic…

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