20 African news startups you really have to know about

Countries around the African continent have a chance to do something really special when it comes to news innovation. With a highly mobile literate population and growing middle classes, these countries have the chance to shed the weight of old media far more readily than countries with more developed economies.

Without support however, the chances of those innovations surviving and prospering are fairly slim. That’s where competitions like the Africa News Innovation Challenge come in.

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