Why Africa May Never Produce A Facebook, Groupon, Zynga Or Google

Why Africa May Never Produce A Facebook, Groupon, Zynga Or Google This was the title of a post by an african reporter on Forbes Africa. As I read the post I couldn't disagree with the writers point. But I still refused to believe africa can't or doesn't have the capability to produce $billion Internet companies. More even now am interested in knowing or finding out about the ground breaking ideas out there. Because I believe before funding there must be ground shaking ideas and innovations. The writer did make mention of a few but (I stand to be corrected that) we still lack a lot. So my thought and question has been rephrased from the reporter's. Where are all Nigeria's programmers and developers? If not even web apps, Where are the new android and iOs apps? Why don't we have them crawling all over the place? The mobile platforms are speedingly taken over. Plus from my little research and understanding the cost/effort to produce these apps have greatly been reduced by there inventors. Sure, We have produced the likes of jobberman and Iroko yet one can still say these are not industry disruptive companies. Finally, Someone might ask "why haven't I produced mine?" Well I have always enjoyed been on the non-tech (idea guy) side of the game. But we all know many tech guyz in nigeria aren't ready to grow startups (I stand to be corrected again). They do would rather aim for jobs with the oil companies. Have got 1st hand experience on this myself even with some NL programmers. So recently have decided to jump in and start building programming skills. Cos I really really just hate this Article Title!

But as I read the article, I could not help but ask myself the pertinent yet habitually unanswered question: What about Africa? Why hasn’t a globally-renown, groundbreaking software, social network or mobile application ever emerged from the continent? From my experiences, I have discovered that Africa equally has its own plethora of techies with earth-shaking ideas, rock-solid business plans and the commercial know-how required to transform a concept into a world-class business concern. There is no shortage of capacity. Africa has some extremely intelligent techpreneurs. Africans can create hugely successful tech products that will sweep the world off its feet. There are several entrepreneurs out there waiting to break through, but their ideas might never see the light of day because of a lack of seed finance.                          One thing i know for sure, what Africa isn't lacking is talent