I got an email yesterday that brought to my attention that this blog - Startups Nigeria - was listed in 100 Best Blogs for Learning About Africa in an article by Alisa Miller at BachelorsDegreeOnline.com

The list also featured Emeka Okafor’s Timbuktu Chronicles, Naija Ecash, amongst others. Startups Nigeria is number 81 on the list under the category - Technology and Entrepreneurship.

I thought that was cool and decided to share it here. Thanks to Alisa for the mention. You can find other interesting blogs about Africa too. Go check it out for yourself.

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I’ve quizzed myself about the fact that most (if not all) of Nigerian celebrities don’t have a functional website, let alone one that has a community where their fans and other users can enjoy a social networking experience.

Lately, I’ve started to x-ray websites of several Nigerian music, movies, web, political and sports celebrities on the Internet in an attempt to find out which of them has applied web 2.0 tools and technologies. Unfortunately, I’ve found none.

For the most part, there are quite a few of them such as ritadominic.com, omotola.tv and stephanieokereke.com, styl-plus.com that have cool web interfaces and functionalities, but hardly would you find a user community.

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I guess Nigerian women are not left out in ICT development in Nigeria, as a new NGO named W.TEC has adopted Web 2.0 tools and technologies in order to facilitate knowledge gathering and sharing amongst Nigerian women.

The Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is a Nigerian non-governmental organisation working for the economic and social empowerment of girls and women, using information and communication technologies (ICTs).

W.TEC was launched in 2008 by Oreoluwa Somolu who blogs at Ore’s Notes and was recently interviewed by Sokari Ekine of Kabissa.

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Google has capitalised on the recent mobile penetration in Nigeria to launch a test of Google SMS Search which provides access to information via your mobile phone.

You simply create an SMS message about what you are looking for and send it to the Google number (4664 or “GOOG”) and wait for a response by SMS. The service is currently free from Google, but mobile charges do apply from your network operator.

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Today, I stumbled into an interesting article at eNowNow.com that reviews technology predictions for 2009 and thought it’d be nice to mention it here.

eNowNow is a web information portal that provides news around technology, business, politics, entertainment, sports, stock market, etc. The site also has a growing community with tools that engage its users everyday.

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