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…
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Smart Tech Investments That Save Time and Boost Small Business Growth
Small business owners running lean teams tend to hit the same wall eventually. The day fills up with tasks that…
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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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Why Africa Must Build a System That Funds Innovation and Scales Homegrown Technology
A brilliant idea dies in Africa almost every day, not because it lacked merit, but because it lacked money at…
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Wearables for Chronic Disease Management in Low-Resource African Settings: Promise Meets Practical Limits
A blood pressure cuff and a paper chart have managed hypertension in Nigerian clinics for decades. That basic setup is…
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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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How Africa Can Become the World’s AI Outsourcing Hub, Just as India Dominated IT Services
In 1991, a handful of Indian engineers in Bangalore were writing code for American banks that had never heard of…
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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…
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Samsung Launches Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra and Fold8 in Nigeria, Pushes Foldables Further Into the Mainstream
Samsung Electronics West Africa has opened pre-orders in Nigeria for its newest foldable phones, the Galaxy Z Fold8 and Galaxy…
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How AgriTech Startups Are Helping Smallholder Farmers Improve Yields
Africa’s food security problem has never really been a land problem. The continent holds roughly a quarter of the world’s…
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Africa’s Cross-Border Payment Problem Is Still Unsolved — Here’s Why
Send money from Lagos to Accra, two cities a two-hour flight apart, and there is a decent chance it will…
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Why Innovation, Not Natural Resources, Will Define the World’s Most Successful Nations
Nigeria has oil. The Democratic Republic of Congo has cobalt, the mineral powering every smartphone and electric car on earth….
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From a Muddy Street in Aba to Building Nigeria’s First Homegrown Phone: The Magnus Emenuga Story
Long before Magnus Emenuga ever touched a circuit board, he was already an engineer, but he just didn’t know it…
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Africa Doesn’t Have an Innovation Problem, It Has an Innovation Infrastructure Problem
Walk into any tech hub in Lagos, Nairobi, or Kigali on a Tuesday afternoon, and you will find brilliant people…
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Digital Lending and Debt Traps: Protecting African Borrowers from Predatory Apps
A trader in Lagos who needs N20,000 to restock before the weekend rarely has patience for a bank’s paperwork. Digital…
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Ethiopia Expands Mobile Tax Payments Nationwide Through telebirr
Ethiopia has expanded mobile tax payment services across the federal government and most regional revenue authorities through Ethio telecom’s mobile…
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Why Big African Tech Companies Are Buying Startups for Their People, Not Just Their Products
A quiet shift is underway in African tech dealmaking. For years, the standard acquisition story was about market share: a…
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The African Developer Experience: Why Tooling Still Ignores the Continent
A developer in Lagos and a developer in Lisbon can write the same line of code, use the same framework,…
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Telemedicine After the Hype: What African Health Platforms Have Actually Achieved
A decade ago, “telemedicine” was the word every African tech pitch deck reached for. A doctor in your pocket, healthcare…
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The Compliance Layer AI Agent Frameworks Forgot to Build: The Story of Comply54
AI agents can now reason, plan, call tools, retrieve customer data, and initiate financial transactions on their own. What almost…
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How Technology and AI Can Accelerate Sustainable Development in Africa
Africa does not have a resources problem. It has a distribution problem, and technology is the fastest bridge we have…
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Starlink’s Real Impact in Rural Africa: What Three Years of Operation Actually Show
When Starlink switched on in Nigeria in January 2023, the pitch was simple: a dish, a clear view of the…
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The New Subsea Cable Race: Who Is Connecting Africa’s Coasts in 2026
Africa’s internet has always depended on a thin, vulnerable thread: the handful of fibre-optic cables lying on the seabed that…
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Africa’s Data Centre Boom: Where the New Facilities Are Being Built
Africa’s digital infrastructure deficit has been well-documented for years. The continent accounts for less than 2% of the world’s co-location…
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Meet the 10 Men Driving Africa’s Tech Revolution in 2026
A teenager in Lagos taps his phone to pay for jollof rice. A small-business owner in Cape Town swipes a…
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Open Banking in Nigeria: What the CBN Framework Means for Consumers
For more than a decade, Nigerian banks have held onto a kind of data nobody else could see: years of…
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The Fight Over Who Regulates African Fintechs: Central Banks vs Telcos
The question of who gets to govern mobile money in Africa is not purely academic. It shapes how millions of…
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Open Banking in Nigeria: What the CBN Framework Actually Means for You
For years, Nigerian bank customers have existed inside walled gardens. Your transaction history at one bank is invisible to another….
