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Mark Zuckerberg has celebrated a number of African developers, especially those from Nigeria, at the just concluded Facebook F8 developer conference that held in San Jose, California on 18 and 19 April.
Zuckerbergs’s Facebook celebrated the achievements and products of its growing African developer and partner ecosystem at the annual F8 developer conference.
African developers shared the stage with Facebook and developers from around the world, showcasing innovative products and services they have created for their local communities and the global market.
This year Facebook brought F8 to developers around the world through F8 Meetups hosted with tech hubs around the world.
In Africa, it hosted F8 Meetups in Nairobi, Lagos, and Cape Town, where participants watched live streams of the sessions in San Francisco.
“We’re partnering with many African developers to launch products that not only meet the needs of their local markets, but which are also ready for the world stage,” says Emeka Afigbo, Facebook’s Head of Platform Partnerships for the Middle East and Africa.
“Events like F8 are a perfect opportunity for us to talk about how we will work with partners to do more with our platforms. As importantly, they are a forum for us to get feedback from our ecosystem and to showcase our partners’ work to the world,” Emeka added.
Nigeria developer who featured in F8 sessions include Truppr; a social fitness start-up from Nigeria; Quiz.ng, an online quiz platform based out of Nigeria; and Afrinolly, an app that allows users to catch up with Nollywood content on their mobile phones and one of the first Nigerian companies to build the Facebook Surround 360 camera.
Others are Pass.NG, an education start-up from Nigeria that helps students practice for their university entrance exams, and Kangpe, a health service from Nigeria that lets users ask real doctors their health questions.
Some other African developers who featured in F8 sessions include Asoriba, a Ghanaian start-up that has built software that enables churches to better manage member engagement, donations, and attendance – the company was featured in the Keynote for its work using Facebook Analytics; Rancard, a mobile solutions company based in Ghana – its Rendezvous, social recommendation system was featured in two sessions at F8, and Kudi.ai, a Messenger Bot to send money for free to any bank, buy airtime and pay bills; first African bot to be featured on Messenger Blog.
Other African developers are Eneza Education, an educational app from Kenya, and Refunite, a service from Kenya that helps refugees to reunite with their families and loved ones.