Sincerely Accra Is A Ghanaian Podcast You Need To Pay Attention To
Sincerely Accra Is A Ghanaian Podcast You Need To Pay Attention To
Safaricom partners with Boomplay and Kuda Bank is expanding to Ghana
What’s happened this Week:
Safaricom partners with streaming service Boomplay
500 Global and GIZ Partner to help African accelerators
Kuda Bank confirms expansion to Ghana
and more!
Last week, Spotify announced that they were putting up $100,000 for its new Africa Podcast Fund Initiative.
One podcast from Ghana was selected and it was “Sincerely Accra”, a show where each episodes alternates between vox pops and in-studio interviews, predominantly in English with an occasional blend of Pidgin, Twi and Ga.
We decided to have a small chat with the guys behind the show about how it all started and how they got picked as receipent of Spotify’s new podcast initiative.
In The News This Week
Safaricom Partners With Boomplay For Affordable Access To Music And Podcasts
Safaricom has partnered with Boomplay, a popular music streaming service with over 85 million local and international tracks and podcasts, to avail the service to its customers via affordable daily, weekly, and monthly bundles
Ghanaian Government Workers Will Be Banned From Using Private Emails For Government Work In 2023
From 2023, Ghana public sector workers will be banned from using their private emails for official government work.
500 Global and GIZ Partner to Empower African accelerators
500 Global, a leading venture capital firm, has partnered with Germany’s economic development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and its Make-IT in Africa initiative, which fosters the growth of Africa’s innovation ecosystems.
Is Mobility Startup MAX Preparing For Its Expansion and Official Launch In Ghana?
Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc (MAX) looks like they are gearing up for a launch in Ghana soon
Kuda Bank Confirms Expansion Plans To UK and Ghana
Kuda Technologies, a press conference in Lagos, says it had officially acquired more than 4.6 million customers and has strategic plans to extend its operations to the United Kingdom and Ghana
Africa Ecosystem Funding Activity
Egyptian fintech startup MoneyFellows raises $31m in Series B first closing - Disrupt Africa
Egyptian prop-tech startup Seqoon raises $500k pre-seed funding round- Disrupt Africa