Well. It finally happened about a week ago that Jumia.co.ke went live in Kenya. Jumia is the Pan-African e-commerce brand of Rocket Internet that has already been operational in markets such as Nigeria and Egypt, and finally has made it to Kenya. As reported on this blog last month, it

At the end of 2012, Africa had over 750 million active mobile subscribers. This number continues to grow year on year and Africa is also the fastest growing mobile consumer market in the world. It stands to reason that this is a very interesting market for mobile marketing services since the

Finally, after many years of waiting for those of us who would prefer to buy authentic and high quality digital music downloads, Apple’s iTunes finally launched in a good number of African markets yesterday. More specifically, the list of countries in Africa where iTunes is now available includes the following: