BRCKFacebook has grown its African user base to 170-million, 94% of whom use mobile to access the social network. Seven out of 10 internet users in Africa now log onto Facebook, it says. There has been a 42% growth in monthly active users since 2015, Facebook said, as it moved its Africa headquarters into larger offices in Johannesburg. Africa has 557-million mobile users, and the mobile ecosystem added $153-billion to the African economy in 2015, according to the GSMA's The Mobile Economy: Africa 2016 report released in July 2016. Facebook opened its first office in Africa in 2015, when it appointed South African advertising industry veteran Ntshingila.

Source: Forbes April 05, 2017 21:11 UTC