Econet’s creator and executive chairman, as well as one of Africa’s early pioneers of the mobile telecoms industry, is a corporate leader and philanthropist working at the crossroads of technology and transformative change.
He continues to spearhead programmes to encourage entrepreneurship, education, and social and economic development across Africa after working for decades to link people and companies across the continent.
In this episode, he talks with James Manyika, Google’s SVP of Research, Technology, and Society, about what we can learn from Africa’s mobile revolution, AI’s potential for improving economic opportunity in Africa, and society’s collective responsibility to ensure that everyone benefits.
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Strive is great guy but making the first mobile call in Nigeria is not absolutely so…mobile phone actually started in Nigeria in early 1990s but was being controlled by only Nitel..that’s Nigeria telecommunications authority and Motorola handset with an antenna was what was mainly available at that time..then when Obasanjo government got into power in 1999..that government decided to give mobile fone licenses to private companies and that was when Strive applied and he was among the first private companies that was issued with mobile phone license and he started operating around 2001..He is a great entrepreneur.