CBDC Updates Across Africa: Which Countries Are Closest to Launch?
Nigeria’s eNaira remains the only retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) live in Africa, and five years after its launch,…
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Embedded Finance in African E-Commerce: How Payments Are Disappearing Into the Product
The best checkout experience is often one where the shopper never thinks about the payment. A buyer on a Nigerian…
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The African Union’s Digital Economy Blueprint: Is Anyone Following It?
Six years into a ten-year plan, the African Union’s Digital Transformation Strategy has become one of the most cited documents…
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Predictive Analytics in African Retail: From Guesswork to Data-Driven Stock
For most of retail’s history on the continent, stock decisions have rested on instinct. A shop owner remembers what sold…
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Africa’s 5G Rollout in 2026: A Country-by-Country Progress Report
Seven years into the global 5G era, Africa has moved from trials to commercial service. GSMA Intelligence counts 61 operators…
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Credit Scoring Without Credit History: How African Fintechs Are Solving the Problem
For most adults in Africa, a credit score is a number that does not exist. Credit bureau files are thin…
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Two Founders, One Projector: Inside EAP’s Plan to Put a Full School Year in a Bag
A teacher in a Nairobi classroom recently showed Ammar Hamid and Hassan Sheikh what a good picture can do for…
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Co-Founder Conflicts in African Startups and How to Navigate Them
When a startup fails, the post-mortem usually points to funding, regulation or the macroeconomy. A quieter cause sits underneath many…
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The Pivot Story: African Startups That Changed Direction and Won
Startup advice tends to treat a pivot as an admission that the first idea failed. The African companies that have…
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Green Fintech in Africa: How Finance Apps Are Tracking Carbon Footprints
Most banking apps tell customers what they spent. A small but growing number now also tell them what that spending…
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Smart Grids in Africa: Technology for More Reliable and Sustainable Electricity
Nigeria’s national grid collapsed twice within five days in January 2026. The first failure, on 23 January, dropped generation to…
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Africa’s Creator Economy Is Growing, but Skills Will Decide Who Gets Paid
Millions of Africans now publish videos, photographs, podcasts and written work online, and many of them have audiences that stretch…
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No-Code and Low-Code Tools Are Changing How African Developers Build Products
Ask a Lagos or Nairobi founder how long it takes to get a first product in front of users, and…
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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…
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]
