Karina Choudhury is a Video Journalist for Voice of America’s Africa Division. She films, edits, and produces content for television and social media platforms. Her experience includes short and long form story telling.
AI-generated pictures images of African senior citizens walking the runway created a viral buzz on social media, challenging the typical depictions of elderly Africans, showcasing them in an empowering way. For more, Karina Choudhury has the story. Camera: Samuel Okocha.
In the wake of COVID-19 lockdowns, we follow up with CEOs featured throughout season one. They share how coronavirus impacted their businesses, how they adapted, and what opportunities arose as a result of the pandemic.
Solving some of the most challenging health problems of the African continent, Health Tech startups are addressing problems ranging from access to medical care, infant and maternal mortality and rapid diagnostics and consistent, convenient monitoring of critical health care needs.
From Agritech, to moving goods across the continent, to fulfilling the African energy needs, young entrepreneurs push beyond limitations set before them to create innovative ways of using technology to make a better world.
From the workplace to the educational and environmental ecosystems, we look at how tech startups change the way we learn, the way we do business, and the way we live.
Through the challenges and victories of young African entrepreneurs, we learn how tech startups are launching ride sharing businesses to address the problems of traffic congestion, safety, and cost of travel.
This scene-setter episode asks the questions, “What is a Startup?” and “What does ‘Starting Lean’ mean?” Through the lens of e-pay startups, episode one illustrates the problems that startups solve and the challenges of launching a new tech business.
