We were really interested to receive a report recently from GSMA on its work with hubs in Africa and Asia. The GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund, which is funded by DfID, aims to build collaboration between start-ups and mobile operators, helping mobile operators to overcome challenges innovating in emerging markets, and helping start-ups overcome challenges which prevent them from scaling up their operations.
GSMA’s research found that there are now 314 active tech hubs in Africa – a huge increase on the World Bank’s estimate of 120 hubs in 2015. Interestingly, 50% of these hubs are concentrated in five countries: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Morocco, although almost every African country has one or two hubs.
The full report gives a great overview of the state of tech hubs in Africa. You can read the full report here.
Thanks to GSMA for sharing this valuable information with us.
Indigo Trust 
obviously there is huge relationship between hubs and the level of IT penetration and infrastructure in country.