Last-Mile Connectivity in Rural Africa: What Is Actually Working
Africa has spent two decades laying fibre along highways and cables under the sea. The hard part is the last…
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What Happens After the Funding Announcement? Tracking Startup Performance in Africa
A funding announcement is often the loudest moment in a startup’s life and the least informative. The press release gives…
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Who Owns Your AI Data? What African Users and Businesses Need to Know
Every prompt typed into an AI chatbot leaves the user’s device and lands on a server, usually in another country….
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Deepfake Threats in Africa: How Disinformation Is Going Multimedia
For most of the past decade, disinformation in Africa meant a forwarded WhatsApp message, a doctored screenshot or a recycled…
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Electric Vehicles in Africa: Infrastructure, Affordability, and Progress
Electric vehicles in Africa are advancing unevenly. The story is not one of passenger cars replacing petrol sedans, as it…
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Brain Drain vs Brain Gain: The Complicated Truth About African Tech Talent Migration
Few conversations in Nigeria’s tech sector come back as reliably as the one about who is leaving. “Japa”, the Yoruba-derived…
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E-Waste in Africa: The Dark Side of Our Technology Consumption
Every new phone, laptop, and inverter that reaches an African market eventually becomes someone’s disposal problem. The continent’s digital growth…
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Digital Health Records Across Africa: Progress, Privacy, and Pitfalls
A decade ago, most clinical encounters in Sub-Saharan Africa left no digital trace at all. A patient’s history existed, if…
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Drone Regulation in Africa: Opportunity Grounded by Red Tape
Rwanda’s Zipline network has completed more than two million commercial drone deliveries and flown over 120 million autonomous miles since…
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Insurance Tech in Africa: Moving Beyond Mobile Phone Cover
For much of the past decade, “insurtech in Africa” was shorthand for one product: a small life or accident policy…
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Startup Ecosystems Outside Lagos and Nairobi That Deserve More Attention
The story of African tech has, for the better part of a decade, been told through two cities. Lagos supplies…
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Africa’s Deeptech Funding Gap: Why Hardware Startups Struggle to Raise Capital
On paper, African deeptech is a growth story. A UNDP review found that deeptech startups raised $3 billion across 360…
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Robotics in African Manufacturing: Where the Continent Stands and Where It Is Heading
Factories around the world installed 542,000 industrial robots in 2024, according to the International Federation of Robotics. Asia took 74…
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Why the Digital Skills Gap in African Governments Is Now a National Security Issue
African governments have spent the past decade moving identity records, tax collection, treasury operations, and public services onto digital systems….
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How African Developers Are Contributing to Global Open Source Projects
For years, the story of software in Africa was told as a story of consumption. Developers downloaded the frameworks, libraries,…
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Africa’s Green Data Centre Opportunity: Solar-Powered Server Farms
Africa’s data centre industry is growing at a pace that would have seemed unlikely a decade ago, and it is…
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Spectrum Allocation Politics: How Governments Shape Telecom Competition
A mobile network cannot exist without airwaves, and governments, not markets, decide who gets to use them. That single fact…
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The Digital Divide Within Cities: How Urban Inequality Shapes Tech Access in Africa
Most conversations about Africa’s digital divide default to a familiar map: connected cities on one side, disconnected villages on the…
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EdTech for Out-of-School Youth: Reaching the Unreached
Nigeria’s education numbers have a way of losing their shock value through repetition. Say “18.3 million out-of-school children” often enough…
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Cold Chain Technology in Africa: Solving the Food Waste Problem
Drive through most Nigerian farming communities during harvest season, and you will see it before anyone tells you about it:…
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Africa’s Pension Tech Gap: Why Retirement Savings Remain Largely Offline
Nigeria’s pension industry likes to talk in trillions these days. Assets under the Contributory Pension Scheme crossed N31 trillion in…
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How Remittance Startups Are Undercutting Western Union Across Africa
For decades, sending money home to Africa meant a trip to a Western Union counter, a percentage cut nobody could…
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Diaspora Angels: How African Professionals Abroad Are Funding Back Home
For decades, the story of the African diaspora’s financial relationship with home has been told through remittances: money wired to…
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Uber Just Left Nigeria. Here’s What 12 Years of Its Presence Taught the Market
Uber shut down its ride-hailing operations in Nigeria on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, ending a twelve-year run that began the…
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Voice AI Is Finally Learning to Speak Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili and Zulu
For most of the last decade, building a voice assistant that understood an African language meant starting almost from scratch….
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How AI Is Rewiring Legal Services in Africa
For most small businesses in Nigeria, a lawyer is a luxury reserved for when things go wrong — a contract…
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CleanTech Funding in Africa: Who Is Actually Writing the Cheques
For most of the last decade, fintech was the story investors told about African technology. That story has quietly changed….
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Remote Work and the African Professional: Freedom or New Exploitation?
Lagos traffic no longer dictates the shape of a workday for everyone. Across Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa, a growing…
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The Engineers Running Africa’s Billion-Dollar Startups
When Africa’s tech story is told, it usually centres on founders and the funding rounds that turned their ideas into…
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Upskilling Africa’s Workforce for AI: Who Is Responsible?
Every few months, a new number arrives to remind Africa how far behind it sits in the global AI economy….
Okey Chigbu
Okey Chigbu is a Digital Solutions Consultant. He writes about technology, innovation, and the trends shaping Africa's digital future. When he's not telling tech stories, he helps businesses grow online through his consultancy, Donal Digital. He can be reached at [email protected]
