Africa: Million Pixels For Africa - An entrepreneur's answer to start-up funding

4 February 2015
Safrip (Harare)

Zimbabwean entrepreneur Vuyo Sakala has always dreamed big and wanted to develop and provide great products and services for Africa. After studying Architecture in Australia, and noticing the lack of information he had access to about what was happening back home in Zimbabwe and the rest of the African continent as a whole, he came up with the idea of designing and building five regional information portals that would cover the continent; one each for north, south, east, west, and central Africa.

Since 2010 Sakala has been living in Tunisia solely working on this project with the help of his part-time programmer whom he met in 2011. As a result of the lack of funding up until this point he decided to launch his own creative crowd-funding campaign that would not only give him access to the funds he would need to continue and finish this large project but would also create a platform for businesses to advertise themselves to a large audience for a reasonably small amount. After coming across The Million Dollar Homepage (a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education) Sakala thought it would be a great way for him too to raise capital for his start-up and to also provide a platform for African companies and companies that do business with Africa to advertise on. And so, Million Pixels for Africa (www.millionpixelsforafrica.com) was born.

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