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Built in Africa: Seun Osewa on building Nigeria’s most popular site
Built in Africa focuses on entrepreneurs, startups and technologies that are born on the continent and empower the continent’s citizens.
Online communities and discussion platforms are the cornerstone of the internet. In this second instalment of our “Built in Africa” series, we feature one of the most prominent online communities to come out of Africa — Nairaland — and its founder Seun Osewa.
In Africa you don’t really hear about forums or insanely popular platforms (which work like Reddit or Craig’s List) that are built in Africa for an African market. Africans are active on forums, but those these are generally part of other networks, such as gaming, chat and specialised groups. Nairaland is the exception.
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