WEST-AFRICA   –  The first thing Dinah Colecraft does when she wakes up in her house in Ghana’s capital, Accra, isn’t take a shower or make a coffee.

Instead, she downloads a devotion sent by her church, using an app. With Asoriba she can browse the church events taking place that weekend and even make a donation using her credit card. Basically, it’s a one-stop shop for spirituality.  Created by a team of young Ghanaian entrepreneurs, Asoriba the parent company behind the app was deemed Africa’s Best Startup at the Seedstars World event last month in Casablanca, Morocco. In Ghana, Christians normally give tithes or a tenth of their monthly income  to the church.

While nobody knows exactly how much money is in circulation within the Christian church in the West African nation, due to the plethora of small institutions with no collective figures, most agree it’s a huge figure. (CNN.COM)…[+]