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Nigerian ecommerce giant Konga.com gave a peek view into it’s Cape Town office in South Africa with a picture tweet from the company CEO, Sim Shagaya.
With the talented propeller heads of the konga cape town dev office. Yaba + Cape Town building tech for African SMEs pic.twitter.com/dfnyDJOBDW
— SS (@SimShagaya) April 2, 2015
One wonders how much of the development work goes on over there, in comparison to Yaba
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