africa 🌍

/africa268

Home to Africans on Farcaster. Welcome! 🎉

Came across this today. What’s your Rainbow rank? Mine is 3,960.


https://warpcast.com/mikedemarais.eth/0xfcbbef0d
Productivity in most of sub-Saharan Africa is still incredibly low.
I had expected to see much higher GDP per capita in west Africa as well as east Africa.
My intuition was dead wrong 😬

https://www.voronoiapp.com/economy/African-Countries-GDP-per-Capita-Mapped-1362
shoutout to @ehcarpenter who served as a UN peacekeeper in South Sudan: this short reveals something of the challenging conflict zone context, resilience, survival, and the symbolism of a word like "petrichor" unlocking memories/experiences

https://app.t2.world/article/cm3sgs2fh699705u3mc6yfbk4vj
🐿️ $JAM Airdrop for my channel members is here 💰! Claim my $JAM now before it’s gone! 💸
@chukwukaosakwe carrying the whole country on his back.
Anyone heading to Devcon? I've seen a number of people from Nigeria on Twitter.
Season 2 of @misspurple's Purple Pages starting off strong with kokkytau.twitter 😁
It's interesting that crypto adoption (atleast on the consumer side of things) is insane in Nigeria, but the government won't let you build it out.

Source: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/state-of-crypto-report-2024/
til that you can fund your risevest account with stablecoins.
a few of us were running hubs in South Africa and Nigeria. The cost of running the hub was simply too high.

would love to run a hub again tho!
We should find a way to start running hubs in Africa. 😓
Is anyone working on this?
The new channel changes may help us get /africa active. Some of you are members by default and I have added @papa as a moderator.

Let’s bring Africa onchain (as if we aren’t already top 3 most active continent onchain 😌).
Yes breddas and sisters

Let’s build!
Some stew marinating on the stove 👀
why do the big corporations on this continent tend to have terrible digital experiences?

bank apps and websites. internet service providers. insurance. etc...
are there any farcaster peeps in south africa/nearby areas? realized 3 of the top 5 cities streaming my music are in south africa 🇿🇦
I’m publishing a book filled with West African art!

Help us reach 25 pre-orders so we can send this to production 🙏
Builders' Happy Hour is just 8 days away! 🍸✨

Grab a drink, connect with fellow builders, and show off your karaoke skills as we gear up for #ETHCapeTown!

Register here: https://lu.ma/ta03bb8m
How do we feel about his team ?

Impactful no doubt. Question is: long term net positive?

wary of

- custom programming (agenda?)
- alongside entertainment, information, & connection comes a dilution of native cultures. This has historically been Americanisation in urban centres via DSTV, now will be chinification ?!
Keep it up team 🥳