Mara Connect: A Ugandan Businessman's Solution for a Mobile, Skype-like App in Africa

Mara Connect, the brainchild of Ugandan entrepreneur and billionaire, Ashish Thakkar, is a mobile messaging app similar to Skype. But more than that, the application signals a new trend within a continent where 85% of the population is under the age of 35 and boasts 650 million mobile phone subscribers, according to VentureBeat.

Before the end of the year, Lenovo plans to introduce a smartphone in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country (160 million people), and a nation that had 113

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