When the Money Runs Out: Inside Africa’s Biggest Fintech Collapses
The year 2025 was supposed to mark Africa’s fintech recovery. Instead, it became a reckoning. Across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and…
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Why Nigerians Are Choosing Fintech Apps Over Traditional Banks
When Chioma Okafor needed to send money to her sister in Ibadan last month, she didn’t walk to her bank…
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How Smart Technology Is Transforming Learning for African Students and Teachers
Across Africa’s classrooms, artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape how students learn and how teachers teach. The shift is uneven…
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Beyond Virality: Does Africa Need Its Own Social Media Platform?
The clamour for Africa to build its own social media platform has been brewing for the past decade. Those who…
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Why SMS Remains the Backbone of Digital Africa
When M-Pesa revolutionized mobile payments in Kenya nearly two decades ago, it relied on a technology that predates the smartphone…
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Galaxy Backbone: Quietly Building Nigeria’s Digital Infrastructure – From Fibre to Government Cloud
In Nigeria’s push to go digital in government, education, business, and public services, a backbone underpins it all. This backbone…
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The Rise of Agency Banking in Rural Africa
The bank branch arrived in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria, not as a building but as a person. Grace Musa operates from…
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How 5G Networks Will Transform Businesses in Africa
The arrival of 5G infrastructure across African markets is moving beyond pilot phases and entering operational reality. Nigeria, South Africa,…
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How AI Is Bridging Africa’s Healthcare Gaps and Saving Lives
Across much of Africa, healthcare systems are shaped by distance, shortages of skilled professionals, fragile supply chains, and uneven access…
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WaSa Venture: Connecting Africa’s Boldest Builders to European Opportunity
In a bustling global startup landscape where ideas are abundant but access is uneven, WaSa Venture is staking its claim…
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Internet Speed in Africa: Progress Measured Against Persistent Gaps
Africa’s internet infrastructure has undergone measurable expansion over the past decade, yet the continent continues to register some of the…
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How Mobile Money Reshaped Nigeria’s Payment Infrastructure
Nigeria’s financial landscape has undergone a structural transformation over the past decade, driven largely by the expansion of mobile money…
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eSIM Technology Gains Ground Across African Markets Despite Infrastructure Challenges
Mobile network operators across Africa are beginning to roll out embedded SIM (eSIM) technology, marking a shift in how the…
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How Kenya’s MediaKits Is Equipping African Creators to Turn Influence into Income
As Africa’s creator economy matures, a familiar gap is becoming harder to ignore. While creators across the continent command loyal…
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Nigeria’s Fintech Leaders in 2026: 10 Companies Shaping Digital Finance
Nigeria’s fintech sector continues to evolve beyond its early-stage euphoria into a phase marked by regulatory adaptation, consolidated market positions,…
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PayPal and Paga Partnership Signals Cautious Market Entry into Nigeria
PayPal’s announcement of a partnership with Nigerian fintech platform Paga represents a measured shift in the payments giant’s longstanding approach…
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Digital Health Innovations in Africa: Progress, Constraints, and Unresolved Questions
Digital health has moved from the periphery of Africa’s technology sector into the core of healthcare policy discussions. Over the…
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How Battery Energy Storage Systems Can Enable Up-Time within the Nigerian Oil & Gas and Mining Industries
The most recent collapse of Nigeria’s national power grid, which caused widespread electricity outages across the country, underscored once again the…
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Africa is unified in its data centre ambition – but transmission and fragmentation could derail its US$1.5 trillion digital economy potential
As cross-continental digitalisation developments converge to forge tomorrow’s AI economy, Africa today is united in its ambition to become a…
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Data and Technology Trends That will Define 2026
2025 settled the debate around the importance of data and AI. Most companies have already pulled these tools into their…
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Top Tech Trends for 2026: What Will Shape Business, Media, and Communication
For a few years now, I have documented the technology shifts that will matter most. Many of those insights have…
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Mobile Wallet vs Bank Apps: Which Do African Users Prefer?
An analytical investigation into digital payments usage across Africa Mobile phones have reshaped how money moves across Africa. From the…
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AfriGO: How Nigeria’s Homegrown Card Scheme Is Redefining Local Payments
Nigeria’s financial system has been shaped for decades by foreign card networks, foreign settlement systems, and foreign pricing structures. But…
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How Janus Africa is Powering Clean Mobility and Energy Access Across the Continent
As Africa confronts rapid urbanization, climate change, and energy access challenges, a quiet revolution in sustainable mobility and clean energy…
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Nigerian Academy of Engineering Opens Application for 3rd National Innovation Competition 2026
The Nigerian Academy of Engineering (NAEng) has officially opened submissions for the third edition of its National Innovation Competition, a…
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Anambra State Launches SmartGov BETA to Expand Access to Government Services Through AI
With the BETA launch of SmartGov , Anambra State’s digital government services platform, which aims to make it easier for…
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Jacaranda Health: How a Quiet Innovation Movement Is Transforming Maternal Care in Kenya
For more than a decade, Jacaranda Health has been quietly reshaping maternal and newborn care across Kenya, through simple, scalable,…
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How eHealth Africa Is Reinventing Public Health Systems Across Africa
When you trace the major public health milestones across Africa over the last decade, from emergency disease response to vaccine…
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Fixo -The Startup Turning Kenya’s Informal Fundi Sector into a Structured Digital Marketplace
In Kenya’s rapidly growing cities, finding a trustworthy handyman has long been a frustrating experience for many households, unpredictable pricing,…
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Liquid Cooling in African Data Centres: A Turning Point for Efficiency, Resilience, and Future-Ready Infrastructure
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more deeply embedded in how organisations operate, the infrastructure behind these digital tools is undergoing…
