Video: Who Are the Kings of Africa’s Digital Economy?

Eric Osiakwan is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor with 15 years of ICT industry leadership across the globe.

Besides investing in a catalogue of Africa tech startups, he was part of the team that built the TEAMS submarine cable in East Africa.

In 2015, we featured Eric in AB2020, and took part in the Accra-leg of his Angel Fair Africa event held in the same year.

Now Managing Partner of Chanzo Capital, Eric is an authoritative voice on Africa’s tech industry.

Watch this recent TedX Talk in which he breaks down Africa’s new ‘Tech Rising’ narrative, and dispels the notion that all the continent has to offer the world is natural resources.