In a rapidly growing world that has turned virtual and technological, African app developers have to build apps to make life easier.
There are several of these apps. Here are some that caught my fancy.
1. Okadabooks
Okadabooks was designed by a Nigerian – Okechukwu Ofili, in 2013. The app for book lovers and book writers is a self-publishing and reading app available on Android, IOS and Web.
Within a few years of being built, Okadabooks had aced several achievements. It was selected by Google’s “Google for start-up accelerator” in 2017. In 2018, it hosted a writing competition with Guarantee Trust Bank.
The application provides readers with over 10,000 African books and classics.
2. M-Farm.
It is a Kenyan website founded by Kenyan computer scientists Jamila Abass and Susan Eve. After hearing how Kenyan Farmers are being cheated by middlemen in selling their farm products.
M-farm is available as a mobile app for internet-enabled phones. This way, it cuts away the fraudulent middlemen and allows buyers of farm products to buy directly from the farmers.
The company realized that small-scale sellers did not make enough profit as time went on. Hence, the company created another platform that allows small-scale farmers to drop off their produce when buyers show up.
M-farm farmers testify to have doubled their sales after a short while with the help of the application.
3. Afrinolly
Founded in Nigeria by Fans Connect Online, a digital marketing agency headed by Chike Maduegbuna. It is a movie app that enables one to stream or download digital content from the continent. The range of content includes African movie trailers, music videos, online comedy, celebrity gist and gossip, and entertainment news. Afrinolly allows users to also download movies. Afrinolly is available on virtually all internet-connected platforms.
4. Iroko TV.
Iroko TV gives users access to Nollywood movies & TV series. Watch Nigerian movies and TV shows on and offline. It was founded by Jason Njoku. He got the idea when he realized how difficult it was for him to get Nollywood movies outside his fatherland.
Iroko TV had been Nicknamed to be the “Netflix of Africa.”
5. Dobox app
5. Dobox app
This entertainment box was founded by Gafar Willams. On March 24, 2013, the company was established in Lagos, Nigeria.
It began as an indigenous entertainment app to stream Nigerian movies, but now it has improved to access other films.
6. Flux
It is a Fintech application developed in 2019. Super-fast, simple, and cheap to send money across borders. It was founded by Ben Eluan alongside Osezele Orukpe, Akintunde Israel and Ayomide Lasaki. When they launched the application, they were 300 level students of Obafemi Awolowo University.
The app has garnered several positive reviews worldwide, and it is fantastic.
