Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is visiting Kenya as part of his trip to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Zuckerberg's visit to the East African nation follows his trip to Lagos, Nigeria where he met with entrepreneurs and developers earlier this week.
According to a statement, one of Zuckerberg's first stops on the trip was a visit to the iHub in Nairobi to meet with developers and partners, and explore how the country's pioneering mobile money ecosystem is evolving.
Zuckerberg is in Kenya to see how technology innovation is changing the country, learn more about what mobile entrepreneurs are doing with the latest technology, and find out how Facebook can better support small businesses, developers and content creators across growing markets, says the statement.
He said in a post on his profile: "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 added, "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".
The boss of the world's largest social network also spent some time hanging out with developers and marvelling over the ingenuity of BRCK, an American-owned, Kenya-based start-up that built a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the Internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure.
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