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Cameroonian Emmanuel Assom’s (pictured) desire to migrate to Europe, nearly eight years ago, is now only a memory. The entrepreneur gave up on this dream to launch a healthcare solution that is already well adopted in his country. The health tech solution OuiCare was launched nearly six years ago. The promoter claimed that by the end of 2021, his solution had registered 3,000 customers, out of more than 20,000 users.
He developed OuiCare, basically as an e-health booklet, to replace the paper booklet and allow patients to always have their medical records available on smartphones or computers. This way, patients can be received in a health facility regardless of the city or country they are visiting. This idea came to him after his father died at a health center where he had gone without his medical records. Emmanuel says the doctors could have acted more quickly if they had had access to the file.
Before OuiCare was born, the entrepreneur, who studied computer maintenance, was a cleaner at a local company and a computer troubleshooter. At that time, he gathered enough money and moved to Europe where he started a business with some friends. In 2016, they founded ASTA (Advanced and Suitable Technologies for Africa), a web and mobile app development company for businesses and individuals. He later on created OuiCare.
Today, after several improvements, OuiCare is now composed of two platforms. The first, for patients, allows them to access doctors, teleconsultation, and their medical data. The second, for doctors only, allows them to monitor patients and manage their treatment. The startup, based in Yaoundé and Douala, is working to integrate other features such as the geolocation of pharmacies.
In 2021, Emmanuel Assom won the Orange Prize for Social Entrepreneur in Africa and the Middle East (POESAM). The healthtech company received €25,000 and support from local incubator ActivSpaces and French Bond'innov. OuiCare has also joined the Cameroon digital innovation center (CDIC), the new incubator launched on February 8, 2022, by the government. With some thirty doctors already registered, the startup hopes to extend its services to all regions of Cameroon and then to other African countries, such as Senegal, where administrative procedures have already been initiated.
Ruben Tchounyabe
In 2019, Alexis Bafcop and Géraud Lacaze, two Orange engineers, launched a solution in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, to effectively meet the growing demand for online shopping delivery.
Named Mahali, the solution was presented during the 3rd edition of the Abidjan e-commerce Days in December 2019. It is a mobile geo-tracking app that allows a seller and a buyer to agree on a geolocated point of delivery, in a country where addressing is still weak. The tool integrates a database of locations fed in part by users themselves, who can fill in their address by indicating the city, the neighborhood, and landmarks with photos. The delivery man receives a code that, once registered on Mahali, allows him to access the necessary information and to propose a delivery time to the buyer. The solution enables buyers to pay via mobile.
"The team studied how people locate and describe a place in the region. We interviewed people in e-commerce warehouses, deliverymen, buyers, startup creators, etc., to understand the reality and the challenges they face," says Alexis Bafcop. The addresses created in Mahali can also be shared for other purposes, such as emergency services or to direct visitors.
The project benefited from the support and guidance of Orange's intrapreneurship body -Intrapreneurs Studio. Mahali also relies on the expertise of Orange entities such as Orange Labs Services, XDLAB (UX design), and receives great support from Orange Côte d'Ivoire teams: Orange Money, Enterprise Services, Customer Test Center and data scientists.
A year ago, Alexis Bafcop explained that "users are the ones who create the value of the app. So it's free. The more the delivery landmarks are used, the more reliable they will be. In two years, when the database is sufficiently reliable and complete, merchants will be the most likely to pay for the service.” The app will soon be launched in other countries including Senegal and Cameroon, the founders said.
Ruben Tchounyabe
Africa has the lowest per capita car ownership in the world, due to limited access to finance for vehicle purchases. This is a problem that Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi hope to solve with their start-up Moove Africa.
Ladi Delano (photo, right) and Jide Odunsi (photo, left), are two UK-based Nigerian entrepreneurs who want to democratize mobility in Africa through new technologies. They founded Moove Africa, a start-up offering a digital platform where users and entrepreneurs in the transport sector have access to loan options for the purchase of vehicles. From the London School of Economics to Oxford University to MIT, the entrepreneurial duo has a remarkable academic background.
Ladi Delano, a serial entrepreneur, and Jide Odunsi, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs and a former management consultant at McKinsey, have a combined 8 years of entrepreneurial experience, with three start-ups launched including Moove Africa. Sharing a passion for African development, they decided to dedicate their experience to this goal.
They officially launched Moove Africa in July 2020 after realizing that the demand for vehicles in Africa far exceeds local production, leaving millions of individuals and businesses to depend on imports of used cars, cars that are mostly not in a good condition. Also, some countries, like Nigeria, have put in place measures that limit car imports to boost local manufacturing. These measures make it even more difficult for Africans to get cars.
Moove Africa was therefore born to help people get access to quality vehicles. The start-up has an app where users can secure loans to buy a car. The loans can be repaid over 30, 36, or 48 months, in weekly installments. To date, Moove-financed cars have made over 2.6 million trips and traveled over 30 million kilometers in six markets, namely Lagos, Accra, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nairobi, and Ibadan.
In less than two years since they launched the start-up, Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi have successfully raised $78 million from investors, including $10 million in their latest round. The funds were secured on February 1, from NBK Capital Partners.
"The investment…will fuel our continued growth trajectory as we expand our regional operations to empower more mobility entrepreneurs," said Ladi Delano, co-founder, and CEO of Moove Africa.
On February 10, Moove Africa's founders announced a partnership with CFAO Motors, a division of CFAO Automotive, which operates in 36 countries. "We’re especially proud to be working alongside the largest automotive distribution network in Africa and as a result of this, we’re now in an even stronger position to empower a new generation of successful and productive mobility entrepreneurs,” said Ladi Delano.
Aïsha Moyouzame
WattNow has gained popularity among individuals and companies over the past four years. This has earned the company participation in many international events and the interest of new investors.
To tackle the waste of energy in Tunisia and help households keep their electricity bills low, Issam Smaali (pictured) developed and launched, in 2017, his startup WattNow. Using IoT (Internet of Things) and digital tools, WattNow enables consumers to monitor, analyze and adjust the consumption of their electrical appliances in real-time.
The solution works with a smart meter. It integrates a machine learning system to analyze consumption. Collected data is sent to the startup's cloud where they are analyzed with algorithms and the results are sent to consumers either via a mobile app or a dedicated web interface. Based on the result, the user can directly give orders to the box and reduce their consumption.
Users can download the app from App Store and Play Store and set it up with the smart meter. The WattNow app displays real-time energy consumption both throughout the house, but also for each device that turns on or off. It also delivers a daily, weekly, or monthly history of the electricity consumption of the home or business. Alerts are sent to users when a device stays on or consumes too much energy.
With WattNow, Issam Smaali seeks to lower electricity bills for Tunisians by up to 30%. Highly appreciated for its social impact, the service has already been adopted by several households and large companies such as Orange Tunisia. The latter installed it in 2018 on several of its telecom sites and administrative buildings.
The solution was incubated at Flat6Labs and began its consolidation and development thanks to a $20,000 prize won in 2017 at the “BloomMasters” entrepreneurship competition. Another award worth $100,000 was obtained from the Oman Technology Funds. In 2019, WattNow benefited from the supervision of the Orange Fab Tunisie accelerator and participated at VivaTech 2019. In 2021, the startup participated in several tech events, including the annual GITEX GLOBAL technology fair in Dubai, and raised several thousands of dollars from several investors such as the venture capital fund Katapult or even Bridging Angels.
Ruben Tchounyabe
He is the founder of Open Si, a new technology start-up based in Benin, his home country. After putting his experience in information systems, software engineering at the service of this country for some years, the multi-award winner (both local and international) is now eyeing new markets.
Gilles Kounou (photo) holds a degree in avionics from the Ecole de l’Air de Marrakech and another in software engineering from the Institute of Mathematics and Physical Sciences at the University of Abomey-Calavi.
Kounou, who fell in love with digital technologies at 13, was one of the youngest coders of Benin at the time. In his early professional years, he focused on using open-source software to help West African universities improve their management. Now, he heads Open SI, a start-up that mainly works on digital transformation and technological innovation.
The winner of the 2015 Francophone Digital Innovation Award is also an advisor in the Cotonou City Council. He received the second Société Générale Prize for having reinvented customer experience in the bank’s branches, proven his skills as a member of the Google Developer Group of Abomey-Calavi and the Education and Research Network of Benin. Gilles Kounou spends his days tending to his administrative functions, his start-up, and his research on digital technology.
To tackle Africa’s challenges in the digital sector, he launched Open Si in 2013. His main objective with the start-up was to solve local development issues, notably in sectors such as finance, education, agriculture, administration, and trade. Open Si supports the digital transformation of businesses and organizations by giving them innovative tools and information systems.
Some of the major achievements of the entrepreneur who is still in his thirties include GoMedical, a platform that connects healthcare professionals, and Orange Banque (Bankiz), a terminal for dematerializing banking transactions in branches. He is also the brain behind Benin’s e-Council of Ministers, a platform for planning the operations of the Council of Ministers and organizing government meetings.
In 2020, he came second in the World Bank’s Mission Billion Challenge “WURI West Africa Prize”. The same year, he was featured in the Choiseul 100 Africa study which ranks young African leaders aged 40 and under. Despite his astonishing accomplishments, Gilles Kounou hungers for more: He yearns to conquer West Africa.
Aïsha Moyouzame
Senegalese entrepreneur Thierno Sakho (pictured) has developed a solution to reinvent the entire value chain in the informal sector. The solution, ProXalys SAS, is a startup specialized in nano-credit and B2B e-commerce operations in the informal sector.
Thierno Sakho came up with the idea for ProXalys SAS in 2021, after realizing that informal trade actors and entrepreneurs have difficulty accessing traditional lending or credit services.
"The informal sector is a target for which digitalization is crucial. We intend to innovate on the operational methods in place to strengthen and modernize the distribution channels. Our objective is to enable informal entrepreneurs to resist the double digital and distribution revolution created by the large multinationals present on the continent," he explained.
With the regulatory framework for granting credit being difficult, Thierno Sakho decided to offer a supply service for everyday consumer products. ProXalys has many tools for managing and capturing daily financial flows, including an order-taking application for informal distributors, an IT system for administrative management, order tracking, and payment management, and a supply chain logistics management system. By consolidating the entire distribution chain onto a single platform, the startup is strengthening its customers' sales capacity and easing their working capital requirements.
In less than a year, Thierno Sakho has managed to gain a hundred customers in Dakar among retailers, distributors, and producers, with his app acting as an intermediary for their various transactions. In December 2021, the entrepreneur completed his first round of funding, raising $150,000 in the pre-seed funding, with Haskè Ventures as the lead investor. He plans to use the money to strengthen his presence in Senegal and eventually conquer the entire West African sub-region.
Aïsha Moyouzame
While he seemed destined for a glittering political career in the United States, Niang decided to return home to pursue a Senegalese dream. Thione Niang was born in Kaolak, Senegal, in a family of 28.
The man who now describes himself as a political strategist and social entrepreneur arrived in the US in 2000 with just $20 in his pockets. He started building his American dream with odd jobs. He first lived a couple of years in the Bronx, working in a restaurant, before moving to Cleveland where he stepped into the political world and volunteered for Councilman Kevin Conwell’s municipal campaign in 2005. He then became deputy campaign manager for mayoral candidate Frank Jackson. Much later, he was the campaign manager of the black congresswoman Shirley Smith who wanted to become a senator. Shirley Smith introduced him to Senator Barack Obama in 2006, in Columbus. And two years later, Thione Niang became the community organizer for President Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential elections.
He was then named national co-chair of "gen44," the 44th annual American youth fundraising initiative, for the president's 2012 re-election campaign.
With this background, the Pan-Africanist decided to return to his home country in 2014 where he initiated various impactful projects. One of them is the startup JeufZone Farms, which he founded in 2015. JeufZone Farms is an agro-business platform that focuses on the production, commercialization, distribution, and conservation of local farm products using new technologies. The startup supplies its restaurants in Senegal and has a website for delivery. It also provides tools and training to young people who want to get into the business.
"It (agriculture, ed) is not a job for poor men living in villages without water or electricity […] Agriculture is noble and matters because it is the pillar of our economic independence. It is what feeds the country," he says.
JeufZone Farms has already trained more than 200 young people in many African countries and beyond. This year, the forty-year-old plans to expand his venture to Togo. Thione Niang discussed this expansion plan last February 6 with the Togolese Prime Minister Victoire Tomégah-Dogbé. Touting his solution, the entrepreneur said “the particularity (of the offer, ed) is that we can use robots or connected tractors, or sensors that allow remote control to avoid travel on large farms in the agricultural field, for example. We will evaluate to what extent this can be done in Togo.”
Aïsha Moyouzame
Ghanaian-born British entrepreneur Danny Manu will disrupt the tech world with his 4G connected earbuds, Titan, the first in the world. The 33-year-old entrepreneur announced his invention during the CES (Consumer Electronic Show) 2022 in Las Vegas.
The Titan earbuds will be equipped with an eSIM that allows users to make and receive calls and text messages independently of their smartphones. The devices will use their own mobile data that can be activated with the built-in eSIM. They can be controlled by a voice interface, eliminating the need for a screen or buttons, making them easier to use for people with visual disabilities.
“There are many situations where you either don’t want to carry your phone around or that it’s just not suitable to have with you but you still want to be connected. Titan solves that problem,” Danny Manu said, stressing that this breakthrough can overshadow mobile phones.
“It’s a real breakthrough for the phone industry and will shake up how we can communicate using technology overall. To have a device that doesn’t require touch or sight to function is finally bringing tech away from that addiction and dependency on screens that today’s consumer has and it’s a step in the right direction for more accessible technology,” he explained.
Let’s note that this new solution builds on a previous model launched by Danny Manu in 2014 with his MyManu startup. The entrepreneur designed in 2014 [MyManu Click] the first headphones with a built-in translation system that can translate 40 languages in real-time.
Danny Manu has been recognized by Google for his contributions to science, art, and culture. His inventions have gained widespread popularity in the United States, Europe, and Asia, which are the main markets for MyManu.
Aïsha Moyouzame
Founded two years ago, Chari.ma reached a valuation of $100 million last January. The startup is now at the heart of several development projects, backed by big investors.
Sophia Alj (photo, left) and Ismael Belkhayat (photo, right), co-founders of Chari.ma, were crowned "Endeavor Entrepreneurs" during the international jury selection held last January 24-26. The award from Endeavor Global, a global community of high-impact entrepreneurs, is the result of the success of the two recipients' digital shopping service for local merchants. Endeavor Global says the startup has a high potential for development and the founders are willing to commit to sharing their knowledge and experience with other entrepreneurs.
Founded in January 2020, Chari.ma has achieved many successes over the past two years. As of December 2020, it has claimed nearly $2.5 million in order value per month. That same month, Chari.ma won the Middle East Africa Seed Challenge organized by Orange Ventures. The following year, in August, it acquired the mobile credit card application Karny.ma, then raised $5 million in a round led by Rocket Internet, Global Founders, and P1 Ventures in October 2021.
In January 2022, the startup successfully raised another round of funding in a deal led by Khwarizmi Ventures, Air Angels (Airbnb Alumni Investors), and Afri Mobility. Plug and Play, Combinateur Y, Village Capital / MetLife Foundation, Orange Ventures, Air Angels, SPE Capital, Pincus Private Equity, Reflect Ventures, the Chandaria family, Michael Lahyani (CEO and founder of Propertyfinder) also took part. Chari.ma will use the resources to enter the consumer credit segment and further its African expansion.
The new step by Sophia Alj and Ismael Belkhayat paves the way to achieve their ambition. The Endeavor award gives the newly selected entrepreneurs “access to comprehensive, strategic, global support services, including introductions to local and international business mentors, investors, and volunteers from Fortune 500 consulting firms who will help them address key needs,” says Endeavor Global.
This year, Sophia Alj and Ismael Belkhayat are the only two African entrepreneurs out of 12 selected by Endeavor Global in seven markets worldwide, including Vietnam, Morocco, Bulgaria, Brazil, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan.
Muriel Edjo
Traditional financial savings options do not always take into account people with limited income. As a solution, Kenyan start-up Koa offers an application that aims to help its users better control their spending and savings.
Entrepreneurs Delila Kidanu, Alexis Roman, and Ubunyo Nyavor have developed a solution to boost savings culture among Kenyans. The fintech Koa allows its users to set personal savings goals for specific expenses such as school fees, buying a new phone, a car, or even planning a wedding. The app incentivizes users by sending them daily, weekly or monthly reminders. Koa also allows them to track their progress and provides tips on how to better control their spending.
“We spent a lot of time in Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya. Both Delila and I saw the popularity of digital saving products in Nigeria, like PiggyVest and Cowrywise, and how they were serving a real need for customers. But when we looked beyond Nigeria, as a market, we felt like there was a significant gap in other countries,” Koa’s CEO Roman told TechCabal.
According to the founders, although Kenya is the third-largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa and the financial and trade hub of East Africa, the country has a savings rate of only 12%. They attribute this low rate to factors including cumbersome savings options and a lack of appropriate financial education that would raise awareness among people.
To stand out from other solutions, the startup encourages its users to invest their money to earn more. As part of this strategy, Koa has partnered with Britam, an asset manager in Kenya. Users can earn up to 10% interest on their money per year, depending on market conditions. They also earn interest daily, allowing them to see their money grow in real-time.
The platform has already exceeded 12,000 users and has received $100,000 in deposits since its launch in 2020. The founders plan to expand to neighboring countries such as Tanzania and Uganda.
Aïsha Moyouzame
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Only 11% of Malawi’s population has access to a reliable electricity grid, and this hampers productivity, especially in rural areas. This is an issue that entrepreneur Martin Masiya tackles with Sollys Energy, his solar power startup.
Operating in the alternative energy sector, Sollys Energy sells lanterns and solar home systems with flexible payment terms. The firm, whose main target is people living in semi-urban and rural areas with no access to reliable and affordable electricity, has a business model that is based on installment payments.
One of Sollys’s products is WOWSolar 60, a lighting system whose main feature is a scalable upgrade capability that allows the same controller and bulbs to be used to power multiple devices. Sollys Energy also sells "Pay-As-You-Go" solar lights. These differ from standard solar lanterns which are typically sold for cash or loan and require sales agents to physically collect payments from customers.
Martin Masiya, 21, is the founder of Sollys Energy. One of Africa's youngest renewable energy entrepreneurs, he has attended several global events, including the first-ever Youth Forum organized by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in Abu Dhabi in January 2020. Masiya is very involved in foreign development organizations and recommends energy policies to various platforms like the EU-Africa group, the Youth Sustainable Energy Hub, and the Global Centre for Adaptation.
In rural and semi-urban Malawi, a large majority of households, schools, businesses, and health facilities do not have access to reliable electricity, and most of them have no electricity at all. National statistics show that only 11% of Malawians have access to the local power grid. This means that nearly 15 million people are deprived of economic opportunities that could improve their living standards and get them out of poverty.
Indeed, research shows that lack of access to electricity is a huge barrier to productivity. Therefore, providing low-income households and communities with affordable solar devices would help boost their productivity so they can produce more and generate additional income. Sollys Energy's mission is to end energy poverty in Malawi.
To date, Sollys Energy has a dozen outlets in the country. It has already served about 1,000 people and created 13 jobs. In the future, Martin Masiya's ambition is to make his start-up the largest distributor of pay-as-you-go solar devices in Southern Africa, covering agriculture, health, education, and solar energy for productive use.
Aïsha Moyouzame
In a few years only, this Sudanese lawyer built a flourishing startup, Alsoug, in a country that was under an international embargo for many years. Now, insatiable, she yearns to expand across the rest of Africa.
After staying abroad for some years, for studies and work, Tarneem Saeed probably never imagined returning to her country, Sudan, whose economy was shaken for about 30 years by conflicts and placed under an international embargo. Yet, she is now one of the most powerful businesswomen in the country. The entrepreneur founded Alsoug, Sudan’s largest online marketplace, offering e-payment and logistics services.
Saeed left Sudan for Canada at age 14, to further her education. After graduating from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), she worked as a corporate lawyer at Allen and Overy, a law firm with operations in over 60 countries.
In 2014, while in Sudan on personal business, she noticed how disconnected the country was from the digital economy. "People and businesses weren’t harnessing the full power of the internet. Coming from London, Sudan just felt empty. One of the things that irked me the most was how difficult it was to find out the price of anything. You had to ask someone to get the price of a car, house, or even cattle,” Saeed said.
She launched the Alsoug project in 2015 to tackle the situation. Initially, it was a brokerage platform where consumers could check the prices of goods and services, and where sellers and buyers could chat. In 2016, despite the poor internet access in the country, she expanded the platform by introducing classified ads. Over the years, Alsoug’s business model evolved and the platform came to integrate online sales and other tools including an e-payment solution called Cashi.
In six years only, Tarneem Saeed made Alsoug the country’s leading e-commerce startup, notably by raising a lot of money from venture capitalists. Very recently, in October, the company announced the close of a $5 million fund, raised from Egypt's Fawry and other investment structures – the first operation of this kind after the lifting of economic sanctions against the country in 2020.
Despite the persistent challenges female entrepreneurs face in Sudan, Tarneem Saeed is determined to go much further in developing Alsoug. She is getting ready to break into the fintech market with a national payment system that will allow for quick, easy, and secure transactions for all Sudanese.
Aïsha Moyouzame
After coming up with the idea for his app while being treated in France, he went on to win RFI’s Africa 2020 App Challenge with the project. The platform, already available in Mali and Guinea, is set for expansion across the continent.
On January 18, 2022, Amara Diawara (photo) announced a partnership with Synapse Medicine, a French health software company. This partnership, Diawara said, will allow Afriqcare, the startup he founded with Mariam Coulibaly, to improve the quality of its services.
With his platform, the techpreneur and holder of a Ph.D. in Medicine (from Gamal Abdel Nasser University in Conakry) hopes to revolutionize access to health care in his country, Guinea, and the rest of Africa.
Afriqcare offers online appointment booking, teleconsultation, and tele-expertise services. It also enables doctors to access their patients’ medical records via a health booklet and an e-vaccination record. With approximately 37 medical specialties currently listed on its platform, Afriqcare is already available in Conakry (Guinea) and Bamako (Mali).
The idea for the app emerged in Amara Diawara's mind while he was undergoing treatment for a lung tumor in France, where he had flown to in 2015 to pursue a master's degree in public health. Before that, he was working at the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of the response to the Ebola epidemic that hit Guinea. During his treatment, he discovered the use of digital tools for healthcare monitoring and wanted to apply them in Africa.
"I told myself that we needed to give African patients and healthcare professionals the means to interact with digital tools. When I saw my patients, once they were out of the hospital, I no longer had any information about their journey. That had to change," he explained and so Afriqcare was born in 2020.
Amara Diawara won RFI's Africa 2020 Challenge App award and consequently €15,000 in funding. In February 2021, during the award ceremony, he said he would use the money to develop a new and improved version of the Afriqcare app.
"We will make the application easier to use so that it can be accessed even with low internet speed. The new version will also be more reliable and secure," Diawara declared at the time. He also revealed his ambition to dominate the digital health sector in French-speaking Africa, by 2025.
Aïsha Moyouzame
Very attached to his culture and African traditions in general, Central African entrepreneur Teddy Kossoko founded Masseka Game Studio in 2017 to showcase African culture.
With this initiative, Teddy Kossoko, 27, who has been living in France since 2012, has made himself a place among those who work to promote Africa in the world. The idea came to him while he was finishing a degree in computer science at the University of Blagnac in 2014. He noticed that people who play a lot of video games acquire knowledge about foreign cultures. He then started working on his very first game, Kissoro Tribal Game, which is inspired by Kissoro, a board game very popular in Central Africa and across the continent. The game was released in 2018. For this first project, Teddy received the support of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He was granted access to the institution’s documentary resources.
In only 2 months, Kissoro Tribal Game has been downloaded more than 13,000 times in about 20 countries around the world. It is available in 5 languages (French, English, Japanese, Russian, Spanish), and has integrated features such as stories to discover, challenges, tutorials, quests, and winning contests, among others.
With Masseka Game Studio, Teddy Kossoko has won many international awards including the "Pitch Your Game" of the Geek Touch in Lyon in 2017, the Tongolo Awards organized the same year by the Sewati Tongolo association. The entrepreneur has also signed many partnerships with international structures, including mobile payment solution Intouch, the CNRS, the Embassy of the Central African Republic in France, and BPIFrance.
These multiple awards and partnerships allow Teddy Kossoko to prepare more ambitious projects and enter new markets. With his team, he is working on the development of new products including a racing game called Cours Didier, Georges d'or -a 3D soccer game featuring a poor young man who wants to become a golden ball, and Imani Imanu and the legend of the Sonni- a 2D adventure game.
"We first need to address the problems of Internet access and train young creators so that they can offer games that meet international standards. African creators are still lagging despite their innovative initiatives,” Teddy said.
Beyond his creations, the game developer is now seeking to boost the initiatives of other African video game studios. He created the African Gaming Networks platform in 2019 to address the obstacles specific to the sector, including its organization, the difficulties of training and monetization of video games. In addition to referencing creators, the network also offers a mapping of the African ecosystem and helps identify talents who need financial support.
Aïsha Moyouzame