Mukami Gitonga Continues to Drive European Fintech Growth Through Community-Led Expansion
Mukami Gitonga is emerging as one of East Africa’s most influential women in technology, driving growth and innovation across the…
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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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FinTech Professional Biola Atoyebi Recognised for Driving Operational Innovation in Nigeria’s Digital Payments Sector
As Nigeria’s fintech industry continues to expand and evolve, professionals who can successfully bridge technology and business strategy are playing…
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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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Competition Doesn’t Kill Companies, It Forces Them to Become World-Class
The day a serious competitor enters your market is the day your company finally finds out what it’s made of….
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Banks do not need faster AI; they need more accountable decisions
Financial leaders are now being asked to fund artificial intelligence (AI), govern it, and explain the value it creates. That…
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Edge Computing in Africa: Why Decentralised Data Processing Is a Fit
Most conversations about Africa’s digital infrastructure centre on the same story: too few subsea cables, too little fibre inland, and…
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The Rise of African Corporate Venture Capital: When Banks Become Investors
A decade ago, the typical African bank saw fintech startups as competitors chipping away at transaction fees, or at best,…
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Why Knowledge, Not Natural Resources, Wins in the Digital Economy
There is a boardroom in Lagos where the walls are lined with maps of oil blocks, and three streets away,…
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The Trust Dividend: Why Information Integrity Is Now a Board-Level Priority for Every Organization Operating in Africa
There is a quiet assumption in many boardrooms that misinformation is a problem for politicians and elections, not for serious…
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Shadow AI: The Next Evolution of Shadow IT
Shadow IT, the use of technology systems, software, applications, devices or cloud services without formal approval, management or monitoring, emerged as a…
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Applications Open for AEIP Scholars Programme, Offering Young African Researchers a Path to Europe
Early-career researchers in Africa and Europe have until August 31, 2026, to apply for a new cross-continental fellowship designed to…
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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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At 66, Soludo’s Quiet Tech Revolution Is Reshaping How Anambra Governs
A birthday is usually a moment for celebration and reflection. For a public official, though, the truer measure of the…
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How African Governments Are Regulating AI, And Who Is Getting It Right
Two years ago, most African governments treated artificial intelligence as a subject for conference panels rather than policy documents. That…
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Federal High Court Affirms NDPC’s Authority to Register Data Controllers and Processors of Major Importance
The Nigeria Data Protection Commission has won a court battle that tested the legal basis of its power to compel…
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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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Meta AI Just Got a To-Do List — And It’s Ticking Off Your Tasks
Meta AI has quietly crossed a line that most chatbots never reach: it no longer waits to be asked. The…
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Applications Open for Latest Harambeans Cohort, Closing October 31
Applications are open for the newest cohort of Harambeans, the pan-African entrepreneurship network known for its highly selective admissions process…
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Africa Is Finally Taxing Netflix, AWS and Google — Here’s What Changes
For most of the last decade, a large share of what Africans spent on streaming subscriptions, cloud infrastructure and online…
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Bootstrapped and Thriving: The African Startups That Skipped VC Money
Every funding announcement out of Lagos, Nairobi or Cape Town tends to get outsized attention; venture capital has become the…
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Microsoft Leads Q2 2026 Brand Phishing as ChatGPT Emerges as a New Phishing Target
New Brand Phishing Report reveals cybercriminals are concentrating attacks around the world’s most trusted digital, social, and have now added…
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AI Confidence Starts with Trusted Data
Organisations are moving quickly from AI ambition to AI use cases. Employees are already using AI tools in their daily…
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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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Africa’s AI Ethics Gap: Why the Continent Needs Its Own Governance Framework
Most of the rules now shaping how artificial intelligence gets built were written somewhere else. The European Union has its…
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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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AI Hallucination and the African Context: Why Accuracy Matters More Here
A South African judge recently sat down to verify nine legal citations submitted in a supplementary court notice. Only two…
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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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Nigeria’s First ‘Deepfake Election’: Bloomwit Africa’s New Report Warns the 2027 Vote Will Be Fought in Channels No One Can See
With generative-AI fabrications already circulating and 96.5% of internet users on encrypted WhatsApp, Bloomwit Africa’s Navigating Nigeria 2027 warns that…
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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….
