Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

This Medium blog entitled, "Startups4Africa: This is NOT OUR MANIFESTO" by Co-Creation Hub Nigeria Co-founder Femi Longe has caused quite a stir on social media: http://bit.ly/2AxCEMv. In this chat with Andile Masuku, Femi explains why he couldn't keep his pen still after he returned to Nigeria following the recent EU-Africa Summit, where a "collaborative" document entitled "Startups 4 Africa: Manifesto for the development of a thriving community of African-European startup ecosystems" was presented.

Khaled Ismail is the Chairman and Founder of two Cairo-based angel funds— KI Angel and HIM Angel. He also serves as advisor to Algebra Ventures, Egypt’s leading technology venture capital outfit, which focuses primarily on Series A and Series B investments in Egypt and the MENA region. In this conversation with Andile Masuku - taped at the fringes of African Angel Investor Summit 2017 (www.AAIS2017.com) - Khaled relates how he went from being a career technologist to founding seven tech ventures since 1991 (including a 4G mobile tech firm which was acquired by Intel) before accidentally falling into structured angel funding activities. Khaled also explains how he’s acting on his idealistic desire to tear down trade barriers linked to Africa’s colonial past. He's determined to normalise the interchange of both angel funding and startup founding talent across the continent.

Recorded November 30, 2017

Topics

-Buskoin

-PHP: News Archive - 2017

-https://wiki.php.net/rfc/trailing-comma-function-calls

-Dreaming code

-“I’m thrilled to finally reveal that my secret project is bringing a Laracon to Australia!"

-Laracon US 2018 is Announced - Laravel News

-My Mental Health Toolbelt – Taylor Otwell – Medium

-CompuServe’s forums, which still exist, are finally shutting down

-Firefox Will Warn Users When Visiting Sites That Suffered a Data Breach

Topics covered in this episode:

• The PSF awarded $170,000 grant from Mozilla Open Source Program to improve sustainability of PyPI
• Dropbox releases PyAnnotate
• pytest-annotate is now open-source!
• Run Python script as systemd service
• pytest 3.3.0 released
• Why d = {} is faster than d = dict()
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/54

Israeli investor Ido Sum is a Partner at TLcom Capital— a venture capital firm with a presence in Nairobi, Lagos and London. Since 1999, the firm has invested in Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT) companies in Europe, Israel and Sub Saharan Africa and currently manages total commitments in excess of €200 million. In this conversation with Andile Masuku - taped at the fringes of African Angel Investor Summit 2017 (www.AAIS2017.com) - Ido fields questions regarding the prevalence of investor bias, the appropriateness of certain VC approaches on the continent, and of course, TLcom's participation in one of 2017’s most well-publicised startup investment deals— Andela’s $40 million Series C, led by South African Pule Taukobong of CRE Venture Capital. Here's a link to Ido Sum's crowdsourced African Investment Landscape Database: http://bit.ly/2Abm8lj. If you are actively involved in early-stage investment efforts on the continent, Ido welcomes your contributions to the spreadsheet.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Exploring Line Lengths in Python Packages
• NumPy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support
• How to Learn Pandas
• Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux
• Getting started with devpi
• Marketing-for-Engineers
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/53

In this conversation, Andile Masuku asks PesaCheck.org Managing Editor, Eric Mugendi, to reflect on the unprecedented leveraging of digital technologies by leading actors in Kenya's controversial elections, and to factor in on how the country's emerging tech ecosystem is doing in the aftermath.