Oluniyi D. Ajao is an Internet Enterpreneur & Tech Enthusiast. He is the founder of Web4Africa and regularly writes about tech in africa. He has been a contibutor for Global Voices since 2011.
Latest posts by Oluniyi D. Ajao
Nigeria's Golden Opportunity for a Social Revolution Through the Ballot Box
Oluniyi D. Ajao speaks with ‘Gbenga Sesan about his involvements with several non-partisan initiatives around the forth-coming 2011 Nigeria General Elections and the role of social media in the general elections. ‘Gbenga runs a social enterprise called Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, which connects Nigerian youth with ICT-enabled opportunities.
Humorous Web Reactions to Thursday's Facebook Outage
Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users. The website was offline for a few hours on September 23, 2010. Several jokes about the Facebook outage were soon streaming on Twitter, with many of them being re-tweeted by hundreds.
West Africa: The four Cameroonian historical myths
Today, we are taking a tour of the West African blogosphere. Bloggers from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Nigeria are discussing children's books, historical myths, the military and politics.
Is there a future for e-commerce in Africa?
The past week turned out to one that came with an interesting debate online about the prospects of e-commerce in Africa. Are there any prospects for e-commerce on the African continent?
Nigeria: Two Heroic Nigerian Cops; Borderless Office
This week’s blog round-up begans from Nigeria, where Yomi shares a rare story of two brave Nigerian policemen who braved the odds to fight-back about 30 well-armed bank robbers with one of the policemen loosing his life in the process.
FA Cup in Africa, .cm domains, Fathia Nkrumah, The Trial of Charles Taylor, and more from West Africa
This week's West African blog round-up starts from Burkina Faso where Stephen Davies of Voice in the Desert blogs about Africans’ penchant for football leagues in Europe in “FA Cup Final in Ouagadougou“: African men care very deeply about their football teams, including the teams they ‘adopt’ from abroad. In...
Nigeria: Blogging the historic election (Part 2)
Recently, Nigerians participated in historic national and state elections. This is the concluding part of “Blogging the historic election,” which highlights the blog posts by Nigerians on Presidential elections. We will see what Nigerian bloggers were saying on the election day and afterwards. We will start with election day post...
Nigeria: Blogging the historic election (Part 1)
It's election time in Africa's most populous country – Nigeria. Nigerian bloggers have been blogging their sentiments and observations of the election. This round-up gives a brief overview of election reports and views shared by Nigerian bloggers before, during and after last Saturday's gubernatorial election. Pre-election Yomi Says blogs about...
Ghana: 50 Years of Freedom
Ghana, the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence, was 50, on 6th March 2007. Although the celebration, Ghana@50, of the west African nation is year-long, the climax was on Independence Day, when a national parade of Ghana's Armed Force was held at the Independence Square in Accra. Ramblings of...
Nigeria: Internet Exchange, Making Money, Abuja, Political Endorsement, And the Niger Delta
We begin this week's blog round-up with Timbaland‘s entry about Nigeria Internet Exchange. It so happens that I desire to create an Internet utopia in Nigeria. I have a dream of providing Internet access to every Nigerian citizen. This became stronger when I was having a discussion with a friend...
West Africa: What is NOSPETCO?, Aid Does Not Work, Dogon Architecture and Tourism As A Therapy
As we delve into the West African blogosphere this week, our first stop is Nigeria. One issue that is attracting so much attention among Nigerians bloggers is NOSPETCO. What is NOSPETCO? According to the Nigerian blogger Deolu Akinyemi, If you have never heard of Nospecto before, it is an investment...
The Shadowy World of 419, Posing With a Crocodile And Santa Claus in Ouagadougou
What happens when scammers go digital? The result is the shadowy world of 419. Scribbles from the Den, a Cameroonian blog, has a post about these scammers “I Go Chop Your Dollar”: 20/20 Goes into the Shadowy World of Nigerian Internet Scammers: The email usually pops unannounced in your mailbox...
Bloggers in West Africa, harsh migration, low bandwidth and Who Killed Deyda?
We get to know more about two bloggers in West Africa this week. Keith Smith in Burkina Faso shares his photos, and George Ngwane in Cameroon re-publishes an interview with a local newsmagazine. Blogger, Keith Smith, has been a missionary in Burkina Faso since 1989 and has been blogging at...
Flood in Burkina Faso, Power supply in Ghana and an Idyllic Transfer of Power Turned Sour
Under the acacias blogs about a recent flood in Burkina Faso – Update on Gorom-Gorom flood and emergency aid: The Broken Dam I went to see the dam on Wednesday. It is about 1km long, mostly built of stone and mud, with a cement spillway in the centre. It is...
Torture in Gambia, “Militocracy” in Africa, Press Freedom and Dirty Water and Gold
We begin this week's West African blogs round-up with a post in a Gambian blog, Home of the mandinmories, about a Gambian soldier being “Coerced, and tortured” over an alleged coup plot: Browsing through the Point today, a story on the court martial of Captain Yahya Darbo caught my eye....
Sports, Health and Politics in West Africa
We begin this week's blog round-up with sports. The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen…of Ghana blogs about the selection of a new coach for Ghana's senior national football team, amongst other issues: As the Week Draws to a Close in Accra:: Regulation? What Telephone Regulation?; CAN 2008 is...
Flood in Burkina Faso, Nigeria withdraws from Bakassi
Read bloggers' write about flooding in Burkina Faso, Nigeria's withdrawal from the Bakassi peninsula, an opinion about NEPAD and politics in Gambia.
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Nweala's exit from the Nigerian govt. Bloggers share their thoughts.
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Nweala's exit from the Nigerian government. Bloggers share their thoughts.
Death of Joseph Sankara, Drug menace in Ghana, Prof Chike Obi and Prez Election in Gambia
Burkina Faso's independence day, a Nigerian mathematician, and elections in Gambia
Light in darkness, Petroleum prices in Ghana, Famine and Education in Cameroon
Read about Light in darkness, Petroleum prices in Ghana, Famine and Education in Cameroon.
Across West Africa this week
We start this week's blog round-up with Under the Acacias who blogs: Osama bin Laden in Burkina Faso The face of Osama bin Laden glared down at me from his camel, a kalashnikov gun in his hand. Fortunately, he was only on the front of a t-shirt of a young...
