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Kenyan e-commerce startup, Copia Global, announced its exit from the Ugandan market after close to two years of operation.

Explainer: Tech Startups are Built to Grow Fast. So Why Are the Likes of Safeboda and Copia Global Retreating from Markets?

Paul Graham, the founder of the highly influential Y Combinator accelerator program penned arguably his most famous essay in September 2012. In this essay, titled Startups = Growth, Paul Graham argued that

May 5, 2023

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Ron Kawamara, CEO Hugamara Group and formerly Senior Vice President at Jumia Group and CEO for Jumia Uganda. PHOTO/Courtesy

The story of Ron Kawamara, Uganda’s ‘father’ of e-commerce

For starters, who is Ron Kawamara? Where does your story start? Ron is a husband and a father to a 4-year-old daughter. I was born in Fort Portal to a family of

December 12, 2022

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L-R: SafeBoda's Ricky Rapa Thomson, KTA's Kenneth Muhangi, Jumia Uganda's Ron Kawamara and Tugende's Michael Wilkerson

Who is who on Uganda’s e-trade association leadership

On September 23, 2022, e-commerce firms in Uganda commissioned their umbrella, E-Trade and Startup Association of Uganda, in a bid to help them unlock the potential of e-commerce with one voice. The

October 5, 2022

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