Twitter Founder Plans “Nigeria or Ethiopia Stay”

Jack Dorsey, the young Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded social media platform Twitter, has said he plans to move to either Nigeria or Ethiopia next year for six months.

That’s according to the British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Catriona Laing, who tweeted the announcement following a meeting between the two in the Nigerian capital.

“CEO of Twitter announced last night that he is planning to spend 6 months next year in either Nigeria or Ethiopia to help grow Twitter’s Africa business”, she said.

Laing said the pair met at a dinner in Abuja organised by former Nigerian finance minister and former Managing Director of Operations at the World Bank in Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who currently serves on Twitter’s board.

Dorsey, 42, is on a month-long tour of Africa, taking in Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia and South Africa, as part of his bid to grow the microblogging site on the continent.

He’s just left Nigeria for Ghana, tweeting a picture of his first Ghanaian jallof.

Dorsey started Twitter in 2006 alongside three friends whilst studying at university in New York, and is now estimated to be worth more than $4 billion.