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A Tale of Data, Communities and Opportunities

How MEST is supporting the growth of a data science & AI community in Ghana Read More

MEST Cape Town and Innocircle Welcome Airbus #Africa4Future Accelerator

From May 3-15, 2019, MEST and Innocircle hosted the

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3 rules for working remote, from Pleo's Jessie Scheepers

Last week on Tuesday, March 26, MEST Cape Town welcomed members of the community to join us for coffee and the first Community Conversation of 2019. We were excited to...

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Welcoming Cape Town to the MEST Pan-African Incubator Community

Believe in people! Skills and aptitude are key. However, at the end of the day, it’s your ability to develop people that makes the...

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DropQue to Represent Nigeria at GITEX

Dropque CEO Akinwoleola Opeyemi believes attending this event will open up new doors for the company, which is already making a stir in the recruitment software sector.

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Founder Feature: Tuffuor Samuel of RetailTower:

This week, we sat down with RetailTower CEO...

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Adventure, Lessons and Fun at Freeing Africa

By Stephanie Omolu Saturday morning was wet in Accra. However, that was not going to dampen the mood for my fellow...

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Ghalani Finds Fresh Perspective with Enpact

Tech startups are all about thinking outside of the box. But it's easy to get caught up in the problem if you don't take a minute to step back once in awhile.

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Tress - the Hairstyle Inspiration App for Black Women - Selected For Y Combinator Fellowship

San Francisco, (California) USA --- Tress - the mobile app for finding amazing hairstyle inspiration, targeted at black women all over the world - has been selected as part of the Y...

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