1. Initiatives beat drum for African capital markets – FT. [...] Over the coming months, two exchange operators plan to embark on ambitious projects they say could begin to turn Africa’s fractured capital markets into deep pools of sub-Saharan liquidity.[...]
2. Found a new website. Academic Earth, an aggregator of educational videos. It still a bit sparse. I’d keep the Academic Earth on my radar. Hat-tip Peter Klein.
3. Africa’s Climb to an Internet Revolution -Global Advances. 
Aside from Nigeria, Mauritius and Seychelles exhibit the highest internet penetration rate, at 26.7% and 38.9% respectively. Both of these countries have benefited from a well-established telecommunication infrastructure in the past and smaller land surface areas which helped in avoiding the last mile delivery problem. – Global Advances. Hat-tip -AfricanLoft.
4. Dubai’s Real Estate Crash
