Craigslist has been available for Egypt (Cairo) and South Africa (Johannesburg) for quite some time, so it’s a great pleasure to see it arrive in Kenya. The listings are relatively sparse, although the housing section seems have a few listings.
Craigslist’s revenue comes from paid job listings in some cities, and apartment listings in New York. Craigslist Kenya, as is the case with many Craigslist cities and countries, will not be a source of revenue for the company. It’s the largest classified listing in the world, and its simple, easy-to-use, fast-to-load interface should prove popular in a nation where bandwidth is expensive and hard to find (yes, even post-SEACOM).
(via Shashank)
http://www.kenyanlistings.com which is a few days old and has been done by students seems olready to be beating them.
There's also Africavenue, an african pure player in free classifieds market. The kenyan section: http://africavenue.com/kenya is no bad…
There are some interesting competitors for craigslist and am yet to see how a nation that relies so much on newspaper classifieds is going to welcome the online classifieds. Some sites such as kenyasource.net are trying to educate Kenyans the ease that comes with online classifieds instead of the newspaper classifieds. Just wondering, how important is Kenya that it became the third country in the list of craigs? Kudos Kenya.