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Facebook billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg samples ugali and tilapia in Nairobi


Founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg who is on a visit of sub-Saharan Africa arrived in Nairobi on Thursday and met with entrepreneurs and developers.

Zuckerberg visited the iHub, an Innovation hub and hacker space for the technology community in Nairobi, where and later he met with local engineers to learn more on mobile money.

“Just landed in Nairobi! I’m here to meet with entrepreneurs and developers, and to learn about mobile money – where Kenya is the world leader,” Zuckerberg said on his Facebook page.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg enjoys a meal of ugali and fish after his arrival in Nairobi. PHOTO | COURTESY
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg enjoys a meal of ugali and fish after his arrival in Nairobi. PHOTO | COURTESY

AFRICA VISIT

“I’m starting at a place called iHub, where entrepreneurs can build and prototype their ideas. Two of the engineers I met — Fausto and Mark — designed a system to help people use mobile payments to buy small amounts of cooking gas, which is a lot safer and better for the environment than charcoal or kerosene. It’s inspiring to see how engineers here are using mobile money to build businesses and help their community.”

Dressed in casual outfit, the young billionaire was later photographed together with ICT Cabinet Secretary, Joe Mucheru, sampling a Kenyan meal of ugali and freshly cooked tilapia at the popular Mama Oliech restaurant.

“I had lunch in Nairobi with Joseph Mucheru, the Kenyan Cabinet Secretary of Information and Communications. We talked about internet access and his ambitious plans for connecting everyone in Kenya,” Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook.

“We ate at MAMA Oliech Restaurant — a local place everyone recommended. One of my favorite parts of traveling to a new country is trying the food. I enjoyed ugali and a whole fried tilapia for the first time and loved them both!”

Zuckerberg’s Africa visit started on August 30 in Nigeria.