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Wananchi Group

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Established in 2008, the Wananchi Group Holdings (Wananchi) is East Africa’s leading home entertainment operator. It takes it’s name and underlying ethos from the former Wananchi Online, which was committed to servicing the emerging African mass consumer market through provision of high quality yet affordable home internet services. Today It is a fully vertically integrated media and telecoms company consisting of several business divisions.

The founders of Wananchi Group believe that Mass Market Home Entertainment in Africa will be to the next 10 years what the Mobile Phone Industry was to the last. Africa’s emerging middle class has demonstrated demand for affordable high quality Pay TV and Fixed Broadband services and Wananchi Group’s vertically integrated business model has uniquely position them to take advantage of this

Milestones

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  Wananchi Group added Joseph Mucheru as CEO.
  Posted 9/27/09 at 11:51pm
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  Wananchi Group received $18.8M in Unattributed funding. (6/30/10)
  Posted 7/6/10 at 2:42am
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  Wananchi Group received $25M in Unattributed funding. (9/23/09)
  Posted 9/25/09 at 4:09pm via altassets.com

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1. US private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners invests $25m in East African media and telecoms company Wananchi Group Holdings (altassets.com) [edit]
2. Cap Funding Report [edit]