2go was founded by two South African university students as a communication tool in 2007.
In 2015, it was Africa’s biggest instant messenger, and had 50 million users. 13 million of them were from Nigeria.
It was growing faster than Facebook and WhatsApp in Africa at the time.
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We all miss 2go