Tag Archives: africa

Facebook Poll: In what area do you think social media will have the biggest impact in Africa?

We recently asked this question to our fans on Facebook in trying to establish how exactly do we expect social media to affect the lives of Africans in the days to come. Main reason we focused on this continent is because Africa has managed to establish herself as the fastest growing technology destination and as [...]

Fellows Friday with Joshua Wanyama

TED did an interview with me on some of the work that Pamoja Media does. Below is an excerpt from the interview.
After studying architecture in Minnesota, Joshua Wanyama established his own Kenya-based digital marketing agency, Pamoja Media. Happily back home in Nairobi, Joshua uses his company to tackle some of [...]

The New VC4Africa Website to Launch

Pamoja Media worked with a team of different designers and programmers spanning three continents to put together the new VC4Africa website. This was a wonderful collaborative effort that had the whole team pulling together over a period of around 7 months to put together the new refreshing brand, inspirational images, collateral material, website and online [...]

Knowledge Sharing in Rural Africa

How do you bring change to the rural areas in Africa that need information the most?
This is a question that a number of organizations in the Rwenzori region of Western Uganda seek to answer. Pamoja Media has been working with the Dutch firm TNO and the Nailab on a Hivos funded project to come [...]

Online advertising: Pricing in Kenya

When web advertising first occurred, the industry was so young and immature that everyone relied on old print models to determine cost. That meant that the more prestigious a site name was, the more one could charge for that real estate regardless of the popularity or value of the traffic such a site brought. Similar [...]

Scaling Internet Growth in Africa

IT training for kids who live in the surrounding farm areas of Stutterheim outside East London in the Eastern Cape. South Africa. Photo: Trevor Samson / World Bank

It has been a famous rallying cry that Africa’s internet growth will continue skyrocketing. Research studies have proved the possibility of a viable market within certain countries [...]

Why African businesses should have an online strategy

An interesting piece was done by White African on interactive marketing in Africa. This came about after a conversation he had with both Rob Stokes of Quirk Marketing and I. Since then I have been working at developing a blog conversation covering our experiences in Africa. Our aim is to get African corporations to start [...]

Hash Discusses Pamoja Media

White African writes, “Joshua Wanyama found himself in a bind. He had just moved back to Kenya after growing a successful web firm in the US.

Now he wanted to put Pamoja Media on the map in Africa, and he realized quite quickly that there was a major knowledge-gap in the interactive marketing space. [...]

Pamoja Media on Kabissa

Pamoja Media was mentioned on Kabissa as Joshua Wanyama, one of our founders made the TED 2009 Inaugural Fellows list. They say:
I was really glad to get this email from TED about their new TED Fellows program, especially because I saw many friends and tech innovators working in Africa among the first group of 40 [...]

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