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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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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Beyond Technology: Why People Remain the Most Valuable Asset in the Digital Economy
When Nigeria’s fintech boom took off, the winners were not simply the companies with the cleverest code. Paystack, Flutterwave and…
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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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Facebook Marketplace at 10: What Nigerians Buy Most and How to Trade Safely
Facebook Marketplace is celebrating its 10th anniversary, highlighting how Nigerians use it to discover products, sell items and connect with…
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Digital finance for AI-driven economies: Africa’s role in the next phase of cross-border commerce
Africa’s relevance to the evolution of global finance is significant. The continent’s experience, particularly in cross-border payments, provides a glimpse…
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Africa’s Data Centres Face a Growing Sustainability Challenge
Data centres have become an increasingly visible part of the infrastructure underpinning today’s digital economy. As organisations adopt cloud services,…
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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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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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Samsung Launches Galaxy A08, Bringing Improved Power, Advanced AI and Stronger Value to Users
Samsung Electronics West Africa has announced the new Galaxy A08, a smartphone designed to deliver reliable everyday performance and intelligent…
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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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NativeTalk, Trusted by Enterprises for Over a Decade, Launches All-in-One Business App for SMEs Across Africa
With more than 10 years of powering enterprise communication for organizations like MultiChoice, Cybervilla, Opay, and Pizza Hut, NativeTalk now…
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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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At 17, He’s Helping Lagos Motorists Find Fuel Before They Waste a Trip
Olisa Odukwe was 11 when his family moved from Lagos to Dubai. Six years later, in his final year of…
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Africa Must Shape the AI Economy, Not Just Consume It
Somewhere in Nairobi, a young woman spends her day labelling images and tagging text so that a chatbot in San…
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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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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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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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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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Africa’s Real Gold Mine Isn’t Underground
The Democratic Republic of Congo sits on roughly 70% of the world’s cobalt, the mineral every electric vehicle on earth…
