Wednesday, April 2, 2014.

Google Africa Connected Competition winners announced

Yesterday afternoon’s award ceremony in Nairobi marked the culmination of Google’s Africa Connected Competition where five out of the top ten finalists were named as the winners.

Sitawa Wafula from Kenya, Eseoghene Odiete from Nigeria, Christopher Panford from Ghana, Eric Obuh from Nigeria and Eunice Namirembe were chosen as the top five winners after being selected from a list of ten finalists.

The initial number of entries into the continental competition was 2, 200 from across 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
The winners during the award ceremony in Nairobi on April 1st

All of the remaining five finalists from the initial ten finalists went home with 10,000 USD each while the five winners each got cash prizes of 25,000 USD towards the ventures and activities they highlighted in their competition entries.

Google Africa announced that although the competition has come to an end, the Africa Connected site will continue to run and showcase Africans success stories on the internet.

The internet is the best platform to share information to the largest number of people. Google is still calling on individuals and groups from across the continent to submit their stories that they would like to see featured on the Africa Connected site.

The five winning stories were selected by the voting public from across the continent.

Google is also currently spearheading other related initiatives in the education, agriculture, technology and economic sectors.

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