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….
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Online University Degrees from Africa: Global Recognition Is Still the Real Barrier
A decade ago, an online degree from an African university was barely a talking point. Today, it is the subject…
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How African Cities Are Building Smart Infrastructure (and the Gaps Left Behind)
Walk through Kigali’s Special Economic Zone, and you will see solar-lit streets, electronic bus ticketing, and a cluster of university…
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4G Still Not Ubiquitous: The Coverage Lie Telecoms Keep Telling
Every few months, a telecom operator somewhere on the continent announces that it has achieved “nationwide 4G coverage.” The press…
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Edge Computing in Africa: Why Decentralised Data Processing Is a Fit
Most conversations about Africa’s digital infrastructure centre on the same story: too few subsea cables, too little fibre inland, and…
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The Rise of African Corporate Venture Capital: When Banks Become Investors
A decade ago, the typical African bank saw fintech startups as competitors chipping away at transaction fees, or at best,…
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How African Governments Are Regulating AI, And Who Is Getting It Right
Two years ago, most African governments treated artificial intelligence as a subject for conference panels rather than policy documents. That…
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The Rise of Merchant Super-Apps in Africa: Combining Commerce and Finance
Walk into almost any market stall, pharmacy, or roadside shop in Lagos, Nairobi, or Accra today, and you will see…
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]
