Author: Celina Lee

Embodying entrepreneurship and innovation like no other sector, Africa’s startup ecosystem is blossoming. Innovative thinkers are localising tools such as AI and edge computing, among other technologies, to develop their own solutions to uniquely African challenges. What separates this ecosystem from others are incentives to collaborate, to understand the importance of startups and data science, and the fact that Africa’s startup sector is wholly different to Western counterparts. With this, Africa paves a way forward for itself, and serves as a source of diverse, forward-thinking talent for the whole world. Africa: Progress in progress  Despite emerging from a global pandemic…