African Tech Roundup - Mbwana Alliy of Savannah Fund on the advantages of being a homegrown venture capitalist

Mbwana Alliy is the founder and managing partner at Savannah Fund, an Africa focused Technology Venture Capital fund that runs both an accelerator and seed investments in e-commerce, gaming, education technology and social networking. In this not-so-quick chat with Andile Masuku and Tefo Mohapi, Mbwana shares insights on the venture capital scene in Sub-Saharan Africa, and fields tough questions about the very public troubles at one of his more high-profile investments-- the cloud data service startup, Angani.

African Tech Roundup - Tawanda Kembo of BitFinance & Vusi Ndebele of PayNow on Zimbabwe’s emerging tech scene

At Afrikoin Joburg 2015, hosted at Alpha Code in December 2015, Andile Masuku spoke to two leading Zimbabwean startup founders with businesses in the fintech space, and asked them to unpack why Zimbabwe might be the perfect use-case for disruptive fintech innovations.

PHPUgly - 5:Composer Gold

Show notes: https://github.com/PHPUgly/podcast/blob/master/shows/ep5.md Topics Composer Goes Gold US Taxes and the 1099 contractor life Codebase Rewrite Using Lumen and Twilio to build an IVR Spark news The hosts Eric Van Johnson Twitter / Github / Blog / About.me Tom Rideout Twitter / Github / About.me Follow us on Twitter @PHPUgly Email us at Podacast@phpugly.com

PHPUgly - 4:Texas Hold’em

Show notes: https://github.com/PHPUgly/podcast/blob/master/shows/ep4.md PHPUgly - Episode 4 recorded April 2, 2016 Sound Cloud Topics Playing with Vue Postman BASH coming to Windows (link) Shared Hosting Static site generators using Laravel Blade Templating Katana Jigsaw The hosts Eric Van Johnson Twitter / Github / Blog / About.me Tom Rideout Twitter / Github / About.me Follow us on Twitter @PHPUgly Email us at Podacast@phpugly.com

African Tech Roundup - Nigerian House of Representatives Calls For MTN Nigeria To Pay Over $10bn

MTN’s West African headache is now officially a chronic migraine. Just as the MTN Group thought the worst was over, lawmakers in Nigeria’s House of Representatives decided to shake things up. Some members have declared any concession (promised or granted by the Nigerian Communications Commission) in terms of the $5.2 billion fine that MTN Nigeria was charged some months ago, “unlawful”. Others have gone as far as saying that if Nigerian law is correctly applied, the fine ought to be doubled. We’ll definitely be keeping a close eye on this situation for you, so keep it locked. In place of this week’s discussion on the African Tech Round-up, we’ve published a clip from my recent chat with two well-regarded poster boys from South Africa’s tech startup scene: Lungisa Matshoba, of Cape Town-based fintech startup, Yoco, and Shafin Anwarsha, of the Johannesburg-based mobile recruitment startup, Giraffe. Listen in to hear Lungisa and Shafin share key growth metrics for their respective businesses, and explain why African startups are so secretive with their numbers. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

African Tech Roundup - Lungisa Matshoba Of Yoco & Shafin Anwarsha Of Giraffe on repping Africa’s startup scene abroad

Lungisa Matshoba is a Co-founder & Director of the Cape Town-based fintech startup, Yoco, and Shafin Anwarsha is Founder & Head of Product at Giraffe— a Johannesburg-based mobile recruitment startup. The two are well-regarded poster boys for South Africa’s emerging startup scene. Both their firms are currently enjoying a season of relative success as their businesses continue to gain traction and land the backing of venture capitalist interests. Among other things, Lungisa and Shafin chat to Andile Masuku about some of the misconceptions about the realties of Africa’s startup scene that they have encountered when trotting out their businesses in foreign markets, and they get real about two of arguably the most important growth metrics— revenue and profit. They also share some of the mistakes they would avoid if they could start their entrepreneurial journeys afresh.

African Tech Roundup - Geraldine Mitchley of Visa Sub-Saharan Africa on buying in innovation

Geraldine Mitchley is the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships and Emerging Payments at Visa Sub-Saharan Africa. Andile Masuku caught up with her at Nest.vc's recent #WhatsNext #FinTech event in Johannesburg and asked her to describe Visa's approach to acquiring fintech startups that might be able to deliver the type of innovative solutions they might have difficulty developing in-house.

African Tech Roundup - How Ridiculous Is This? South Africa Is Looking To Ban Netflix!

There are media reports doing the rounds regarding South Africa’s Film and Publication Board (FPB) Chief Operating Officer Sipho Risiba supposedly giving Netflix a two-week ultimatum to comply with its regulatory requirements (whatever those are), or risk facing tough sanctions. Word is, Risiba recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kenya Film Commission in a show of support for Kenya's mission to regulate Netflix’s activities within that country. Despite details around this matter being sketchy, critics have already started accusing the FPB of functioning outside of its mandate, and senselessly seeking to regulate the internet. In Andile Masuku's conversation with Justin Spratt over a year ago, Justin alluded to the fact that the proliferation of internet usage in Africa would change the face of traditional broadcasting and media distribution— leaving various stakeholders within those industries scrambling to cope. He certainly called it! In this week’s discussion on the African Tech Round-up, our content editor, Peter Peele, joins Andile to mull over the implications of attempts, or indeed alleged attempts, by government agencies like the FPB to regulate OTT video-on-demand services like Netflix. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

PHPUgly - 3:Dead Air

Show Notes: https://github.com/PHPUgly/podcast/blob/master/shows/ep3.md Topics mcrypt-viking-funeral Your SQL Schema Is Your JSON API Node Drama Last Week Podcast I listen to PHP Roundtable (@PHPRoundtable) Hosted by Sammy Kaye Powers (@SammyK) That Podcast with Beau and Dave (@thatpodcast) Hosted By (@beausimensen) and (@davedevelopment) Loosely Coupled(@_looselycoupled) Hosted by Jeff Carouth (@jcarouth) and Matt Frost (@shrtwhitebldguy) Voices of the ElePHPant (@elephpant) Hosted by Cal Evans (@elephpant) Full Stack (@fullstackradio) Hosted by Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) Laravel Podcast Laravel News Podcast (@laravelnews) Hosted by Eric L. Barnes (@ericlbarnes) and Jack Fruh (@jackfruh) The Laravel Podcast (@laravelnews)@laravelpodcast) Hosted by Matt Stauffer (@taylorOtwell), Taylor Otwell (@taylorOtwell), and Jeffrey Way (@jeffrey_way) Other PHP Podcast /dev/hell PHP Town Hall The Laracasts Snippet Other Non-PHP Podcast Coder Radio The Bike Shed LINUX Unplugged Podcast Talk Python To Me The Ruby Rogues Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots The Linux Action Show