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…
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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…
