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whiteafrican.com is a personal blog at whiteafrican.com about startups and culture. Since 2008, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “South African Tech: A Tale of Two Success Stories”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its coverage of African tech, including the Baraza Q&A site for African users and posts on whether Africa can produce large tech companies.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- South African Tech: A Tale of Two Success Stories2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-27
- Launching the Savannah Fund in East Africa2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-07
What Hacker News says?
'baraza' is Swahili for forum/meeting place. It was very much Yahoo Answers, targeted at the African market - here in Kenya, most people only have internet access via mobile connections, often using feature phones, hence the minimalistic stylesheet. Baraza never really took off. More about it here: http://whiteafrican.com/2010/10/05/google-baraza-qa-for-afri...
Comment linking /2010/10/05/google-baraza-qa-for-africa/
on “Google's robots.txt”Submitted Being in Africa Makes You Untrustworthy as a story · 31 points
HN discussionThis article bugs me a bit, since it seems to be a "Big Tech Hates Africa" article, whereas I think the reality is more "all large companies are spending minimal resources on poorer areas of the world". It certainly does make Africa look a left out on a map, but large areas of Asia are equally not targeted by large companies, but the geo-political layout is different. While it is odd that so many large tech companie…
Comment linking /2008/07/04/google-kenya-and-the-google-global-cache/
on “Africa: off the tech map?”Submitted What should Google do in Africa? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe surely can. It a matter of we sitting and deciding what product we can come out that best fit and solves most of our continent problems. If african hackers can come together, certainly sure we can be giants like Google, Facebook or Microsoft. Take a look at this post, it tells you we're getting somewhere. http://whiteafrican.com/?p=992
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on “Can Africa produce a Google, Facebook or Microsoft?”Submitted The Israeli vs Silicon Valley Models for African Startups — WhiteAfrican as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Governance in Silicon Savannah (The other side of the Angani story) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kenya's Tech Talent and Expat Bubble as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with Hardware in Africa as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Need for Both Makerspaces and Incubators in Africa as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Africa’s First National Open Data Initiative: Kenya as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SwiftRiver: Curating in an Age of Information Overload as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 years later, what has the iHub done? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Community connectedness as a competive advantage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Launching the Savannah Fund in East Africa as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Launching the Savannah Fund in East Africa as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Africa: Broadening the base of the startup pyramid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's a Problem with Seed Capital in Africa as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted South African Tech: A Tale of Two Success Stories as a story · 1 points
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