Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

The Kigali-based Sara Oon is Co-Founder and Partner at NISK Capital, a Nairobi-head quartered boutique advisory and investment outfit serving Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. Sara, a Singaporean, holds business degrees from Princeton University and the University of California, and in this conversation with Andile Masuku – taped at Africa Tech Summit Kigali 2018 (www.africatechsummit.com/kigali/) - she speaks on the challenge of helping East African startups and SME’s overcome the funding gap, and about assisting investors who struggle to identify investible prospects to sink their funds into.

Topics covered in this episode:

• ZeroVer: 0-based Versioning
• GitHub Security Alerts Detected over Four Million Vulnerabilities
• Markdown Descriptions on PyPI
• Concurrency comparison between NGINX-unit and uWSGI
• Loop better: A deeper look at iteration in Python
• Misconfigured Django Apps Are Exposing Secret API Keys, Database Passwords
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/72

The runaway global success of the Marvel blockbuster sensation, Black Panther, has ignited debate about the influence and business potential of African cinema. In this Mapo Radio (http://bit.ly/MapoRadio) interview, Thembekile Malindi speaks with South African author, filmmaker and founder of the BRICS-focussed RapidLion Film Festival (https://filmfreeway.com/RapidLion), Eric Miyeni, about the state of South Africa's feature film industry and the need for Africans to master the business of marketing and film projects. Listen in to hear Eric's candid take on how African film producers might go about 'reclaiming the African narrative' and asserting themselves more confidently on the global stage.

Topics covered in this episode:

• The Conservative Python 3 Porting Guide
• World-Class Software Companies That Use Python
• Stop Writing Classes
• PyPi.org is alive
• pygame on pypy usable
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/71

Caine Wanjau is the Chief Technology Officer of Twiga Foods, a Nairobi-based distributor of fresh fruit produce that's leveraging tech to introduce business efficiencies to one of Kenya's more logistically-challenged industries. Caine holds degrees from Monash University and Strathmore University specialising in Computer Technologies and Engineering (Hardware). In this conversation with Andile Masuku - taped at Africa Tech Summit Kigali 2018 (www.africatechsummit.com/kigali/) - Caine talks about what life at Twiga Foods has been like following the successful close of a $10.3 million Series A funding round in 2017. Listen in to hear Caine's advice for African diasporans who might be keen to emulate him in terms of leaving a comfy overseas gig at a leading bank in order to participate in Africa's emerging tech and innovation scene.

Recorded March 22, 2018

Topics

• Eric had to edit
• The name Van Johnson
• Self-driving Uber car hits, kills a pedestrian in Arizona
• Atlanta city government systems down due to ransomware attack [Updated] | Ars Technica
• Teen's devastating bug-report on a "tamper-proof" cryptocurrency wallet shows why companies can't be left in charge of bad news about their products
• Zuckerberg's Facebook stock selling dwarfs all other insiders

Topics covered in this episode:

• Online CookieCutter Generator
• cutelog – GUI for Python's logging module
• wagtail 2.0
• peewee 3.0 is out
• Machine Learning Basics
• Cerberus
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/70

Feyi Olubudun’s new book, The Villager: How Africans Consume Brands, puts forward a lens for helping Africa-focussed brands and businesses achieve commercial success by correcting their perception of the African Consumer, or as he posits, “The Villager”. Feyi is the CEO of Insight Publicis Nigeria, one of West Africa’s leading creative agencies, and in this chat with Andile Masuku he unpacks insights gleaned from observing many brands fail to crack "the African opportunity". Listen in to hear him share some of the most common mistakes that foreign international businesses make in approaching African markets and how you might avoid making the same ones yourself.