Noel K. Tshiani is the founder of Congo Business Network. In this interview for TechCabal, he speaks with Malick Diouf, CEO of LAfricaMobile, and Marie-Laure Lepas, Country Director based in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, about their experiences in the startup space in Africa.
Can you tell us about your background and what led you to start LAfricaMobile, the first multi-channel, multi-operator, and multi-country digital cloud communication platform in West and Central Africa?
Malick Diouf: My name is Malick Diouf, CEO and co-founder of LAfricaMobile, a multi-channel communication platform helping African businesses to easily interact with their customers on mobile phone. I have several years of experience in the telecommunications industry between Africa and Europe with a solid background in mobile service innovation in particular.
As a telecommunications engineer with a master’s degree in information systems management, I try to capitalise on the…