First Facebook Start Meetup in Africa Held in Cape Town

More than 150 developers and entrepreneurs gathered for Facebook’s first FbStart event in Africa on 15 November at AfricaCom 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa.

During this half-day event, attendees met the Facebook team, learned about Facebook platform tools for developers, and saw how Facebook works with mobile app start-ups through the FbStart programme.

“It would not be possible for us to accomplish our mission of making the world more open and connected without the help of developers and other partners in our community,” says Emeka Afigbo, Strategic Products Partnerships Manager, Facebook. “We were delighted by the excellent turnout for the workshop and excited by the possibilities of the great ideas we saw from the delegates at the FbStart event.”