Rehema Massawe ✔ Bronze

Watching the derby in Saint-Louis with 200 people and one TV. Best atmosphere anywhere. #Football

Staff salaries were 'delayed' for three months while management flew business class.

Every African startup pitch deck says 'the next M-Pesa'. Very few study why M-Pesa actually worked. #Startups

Startups in Nairobi are raising less this year but building more. Quietly the best sign I have seen. #AfricanTech

Built a whole fintech MVP on a laptop with 4GB RAM in Arusha. Constraints make you sharper. #AfricanTech

Data bundles cost more here than in countries with ten times our income. Explain that. #DigitalRights

My neighbour fixed the street light himself because nobody came for 8 months. #Community

New toll gates announced on the Lagos expressway. Nobody consulted the drivers who use it daily. #Infrastructure

Local devs building for local problems will beat imported solutions every time. #BuildInAfrica

Cement prices up 40% since January. Every construction site in Durban has stalled. #Economy

Small joys: rain in Dakar after weeks of heat. #Weather

Built a whole fintech MVP on a laptop with 4GB RAM in Dakar. Constraints make you sharper. #AfricanTech

Local languages are trending online again and I am here for it. #Language

The informal sector employs most of us and is taxed like an afterthought. #SmallBusiness

Built a whole fintech MVP on a laptop with 4GB RAM in Arusha. Constraints make you sharper. #AfricanTech

Fibre finally reached my street in Bahir Dar. Ten years after they announced it. #Connectivity

Our grandmothers were archiving family history before anyone called it content. #Heritage