Many African cities are witnessing the splendor of entrepreneurship with a series of innovations and solutions that are helping to make life easier and more convenient for the continent's inhabitants.

OnDeck, an organization that helps companies expand, recently published a report aimed at decoding the entrepreneurial DNA of cities.

By searching for the job title "founder" on LinkedIn profiles in 150 countries and the 10 most populous cities in those countries, the researchers matched the number of entrepreneurs found to the population of the cities.

Africa's undisputed champion in terms of entrepreneurship was Rwanda's capital, Kigali, which boasts 116.5 company founders per 10,000 LinkedIn profiles.

Nigeria's capital, Abuja, came second with a score of 111.1, while Kampala in Uganda came third with a score of 106.4 in the battle of the founders.

See the top 10 African cities with the highest percentage of entrepreneurs (in founders per 10,000 profiles):

1. Kigali, Rwanda (116.5);
2. Abuja, Nigeria (111.1);
3. Kampala, Uganda (106.4);
4.Cape Town, South Africa (103.4);
5.Nairobi, Kenya (97.0);
6.Gaborone, Botswana (93.6);
7.Johannesburg, South Africa (87.7);
8.Harare, Zimbabwe (85.2);
9.Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (84.7);
10. Lusaka, Zambia (78.3).

Worldwide, the top three are San Francisco in the US (353.7), Tel Aviv in Israel (299.4) and New York (287.0), according to the report.

In Europe, the top city for setting up a company was Amsterdam in the Netherlands, with 251.7 founders per 10,000 local workers on LinkedIn; in South America, the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo (36.5); and in Oceania, Australia's Gold Coast (143.5).

In Asia, Israel's capital is followed by Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (126.1), and Turkey's capital, Istanbul (124.3) - both just ahead of Kigali. (Sputnik)