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The Lagos Skyline By Way of ‘a whitespace’
(Image Courtesy of ‘a whitespace’ / Photo Credit: Folarin Shasanya) When we got word that Social Media Week Lagos was a go, we were so excited to introduce the world to our vibrant city. Big thanks...
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Lagos To Host The Continent’s Inaugural Social Media Week
In the 52 years since Nigeria gained its independence from Britain, it has gone through a cultural revolution, emerging as the epicenter of business, art, and technology for the African continent. With...
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Initial SMW Lagos Events Schedule is LIVE!
We put out the call and the community responded! Back in early November we asked you to Get Involved and you did! When we asked for individuals and organizations from around the world to submit their...
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Why Start A Social Network For Africans? [Q&A with Chioma Anyanwu]
Many people drive through Surulere-a popular Local Government in Lagos state of Nigeria-but not many people conceive an idea while doing so. For Chioma Anyanwu, co-founder afroterminal.com, her drive...
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Social Media Society: The Future of Tweeting on the Continent
Not to state the obvious or anything but Africa has long gone past being the “dark continent”. With the infamous Western influence seeping through at a steady rate- which is for once actually a good...
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Bozza: Enabling African Communities To Share Their Stories
With Africa possessing the fastest mobile phone market in the world, learning how to use this platform seems to be the next step towards the betterment of the continents’ infrastructure. Cue in Bozza-...
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Op-Ed: In$tagram: When Moving To Monetize Goes Wrong
If you haven’t heard about the recent internet explosion caused by angry Instagram users you may have been living under a rock. The uproar, fueled by the announcement that the popular photo sharing...
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Ever wonder what would happen if you found yourself in a sticky situation in some foreign country and you didn’t know how to call for help because you don’t know the language? No…? Me neither. But for...
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Diarize this: Billboard Music Day
Just a little after the world (read America) caught up with our clannish day to day threads and hailed them as last season’s fashion phenomenon of tribal prints, it seems that while in Africa they also...
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Infographics: OpenSite Shows Us How The Internet Works
Despite how heavily dependent on the Internet we have become, a majority of its users do not have a clue as to how it functions. A lack of computer science education in most grade school curriculums...
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SMWLagos + Nokia Lumia 920′s + Inquisitive Young Minds from the Ovie Brume...
Photographer Delphine Fawundu in collaboration with the Ovie Brume Foundation launched a youth photography workshop as a featured event during the Africa’s first Social Media Week in Lagos, Nigeria....
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Highlights from the SMWLagos + Nokia Youth Photography Workshop at the Ovie...
After three days of investigating areas of interest. The teens at the Ovie Brume Foundation started working on their year long photo documentation series. Esther, Age 10 Focus: Self Portraits,...
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We’re Headed to London for Africa: Open & Connected
For the ultimate in Social Media Week cross city mash-ups, we’re bringing Africa to London! Social Media Week Lagos is honored to be joining forces with SMW London this September to present Africa:...
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And…We’re Back!
October 14, 2013 – Social Media Week Lagos is Back in Lagos, Nigeria February 17-21, 2014. SMWLagos co-produced by Dragon Africa and AFRIKA21 returns for a second year and aims to do it even bigger and...
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7 Reasons to Travel to SMW Lagos
The first Social Media Week on the continent took place earlier this year in Lagos and it will be in full effect again February 17-21 in 2014. If you made it, you understood the impact of this historic...
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This Year We Made History… Next Year We Shape The Future!
As our SMW New York colleague Nicky Yates declared in her blog post “Welcome Back: The Future of Now” Social Media Week is built on the belief that we should better understand how technology is...
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Tech, Africa & the Diaspora: 3 Questions with Jon Gosier
Tech, Africa & the Diaspora: 3 Questions with Jon Gosier It’s been an interesting road for the self-proclaimed “glorified tech geek” Jon Gosier. The arts school graduate moved to Uganda in 2008...
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Lessons From Kenya Red Cross: How To Manage a Social Media Disaster
This is a guest post by Deola Kayode Crisis happens. A sub-standard product. Poor customer service. A leaked document. Controversial video, blog post or article. Crisis-laden information spreads with...
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Trends: Africa & Internet Connectivity
While there have been strides in closing the gap, internet penetration across Africa is only 15.6 percent (as of December 2012). It is obvious that the major challenge of growth in social media and...
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Making a Case for Nigeria As the Continent’s Technology Leader
Making a Case for Nigeria As the Continent’s Technology Leader Earlier this year, technology news website Mashable posed the following question: “Is Lagos Home to an African Tech Movement?” In the...
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