This week on Techpoint.Africa

All the best stories on startups, technology and innovation this week [View this email in your browser]( Weekly Newsletter Excerpts: [Social Media Roundup: Blood and Bone; A Nora Roberts diss]( This week on social media; Nigerian-American author Tomi Adeyemi accuses renowned American author Nora Roberts of plagiarism, a tale of 83k and more stories. [Read on »]( [With 700 already in one year, Curators University is training an army of Nigerian data scientists and AI experts]( Akure in Ondo State, Nigeria is home to Curators University; an organisation working to plug Africa's skills gap in new technologies of the 4th industrial revolution. [Read on »]( [36 African non-profits and social enterprises win $6m in total grants from Google]( Google has announced the winners of the first Google Impact Challenge in Africa at simultaneous events held in Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg. 36 non-profits and social enterprises were awarded a share of $6m in grant funding. [Read on »]( [With an ambition to become the ‘Google Images of Africa’, Iwaria offers high quality African stock photography for free]( If you have ever struggled with having to include “black” in online image search queries and still not getting satisfactory results, you would certainly relate with the problem Iwaria is attempting to solve. [Read on »]( [Why we know next to nothing about Nigeria’s space programme]( A recent visit to the Centre for Space Transport and Propulsion (CSTP), Epe, Lagos shed a little light on why Nigerians do not know the country has a space programme. [Read on »]( [This Ibadan-based startup averages about $30k monthly revenue from the difficult Nigerian eCommerce space]( Headlining the eCommerce narrative in Nigeria are stories of leading companies marred by struggles of online payment infrastructure, poor road networks that complicate logistics and a slow pace of customer base growth. But Foodlocker, a startup in Ibadan, may have figured the solution to these problems. [Read on »]( [Getting more African startups on the global stage]( Techpoint founder, Adewale Yusuf shares his experience attending Web Summit 2018 and his drive to get more African startups on the global stage [Read on »]( [Premier Hub is an innovation hub empowering South-Western businesses from the heart of Akure]( We took a tour of Premier Hub Innovation Centre, one of the very few innovation hubs located in Akure, the Ondo state capital. Here's what we saw. [Read on »]( [MTN’s $25 “smart feature phone” will bring arguably 3rd most popular mobile OS to Africa]( Riding on the resurgence of feature phones South African-based mobile network is working to bring reasonably priced feature phones with smartphone abilities to the continent. And it won't have to reinvent the wheel, thanks in no small part to a fast-rising mobile OS that is giving Android and Apple's iOS a run for their money [Read on »]( If you have any thoughts, comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to hit the reply button; I'd love to hear from you. Muyiwa Matuluko Editor-in-Chief, Techpoint.Africa Copyright © 2018 Techpoint Africa, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the Techpoint.africa newsletter. Our mailing address is: Techpoint Africa 194 Herbert Macaulay road, Adekunle, YabaLagos 101241 Nigeria [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. [Mailchimp Email Marketing](