Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

A few weeks ago, Africa's richest man, Nigeria's Aliko Dangote, baffled many pro-African investment proponents by telling Bloomberg that if things go the way he plans, come 2020, a significant chunk of his wealth will be deployed abroad. In this African Tech Round-up episode Andile Masuku and Musa Kalenga are joined by Bitmari co-founder and self-proclaimed "pre-racial thought leader", Sinclair Skinner, for an unfettered family-style straight-talk session which literally went all over the place-- including reacting to Mr Dangote's recent revelation. Beware the scorching candid views and unintentional hot takes on everything from Naspers' problematic links to South Africa's apartheid past and Tanzania's new drone delivery program, to the big ticket maneuverings happening in South Africa's fintech scene courtesy of South Africa's wealthiest black man, Patrice Mostepe. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

We're back! In today's episode: Jay, David, Ilana, Jess, and special guest Abby Mars read mean tweets, discuss what we are doing to prevent further mean tweets, and wait, the iPhone X does what with your face? Warning: Explicit content

Recorded September 14, 2017

Topics

• dddcommunity.org | Domain Driven Design Community
• Data Centre » BOFH • The Register
• The Equifax Data Breach: What to Do | Consumer Information

Topics covered in this episode:

• future-fstrings
• The Fun of Reinvention
• Sound Pattern Recognition with Python
• PEP 550: Execution Context
• Intro to Threads and Processes in Python
• Alternative filesystems for Python
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/43

Recorded September 7, 2017

Topics

• Domain registrars emerging as the internet's moral enforcers
• PHP: rfc:uuid
• Lumen 5.5 Is Released - Laravel News
• PHP Test Fest
• Symfony joins the Unicorn club! 1 billion downloads
• Voice assistants can be hacked by commanding them with inaudible
  ultrasonic speech
• bmitch/churn-php: Discover files in need of refactoring.

Topics covered in this episode:

• What Kenneth Did Last Week (well, recently)
• Python 2 Death Clock
• Small Functions considered Harmful
• Why Python 3
• EANABs
• The Incredible Growth of Python
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/42

**Apologies for the poor sound quality** Adedana Ashebir has recently been tasked with heading up Village Capital's business on the continent. In this conversation, Adedana walks Andile Masuku through some of the thinking behind and the findings published in Village Capital's implicatory Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded report called Breaking the Pattern: Getting Digital Financial Services Entrepreneurs to Scale in India and East Africa. Among other things, this fintech-focused research highlights the fact that more than 90 percent of funding for East African fintech start-ups typically goes to expatriate founders (European or North American), and the fact that despite East Africa posting a record haul in terms of start-up investment ($84.7million or R1.13billion) over the last two years, a whopping 72 percent of that funding has gone to just three companies - namely, M-Kopa, Off-Grid Electric and Angaza. Adedana factors in on the lively debate that's ensued in the wake of the report being published, and shares candid insights on the awkward dynamics of navigating the continent's emerging tech scene as a repat.