The Sub-Saharan African sub region is seeing an unexpected increase in the use of cryptocurrency. What is driving this adoption and what countries in the sub-region are at the forefront of the explosion?
That’s where we start off this week’s TechCabal Weekly Podcast. We also talk about Jumia’s plans for the future as they continue to chart a path to profitability.
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A dramatic week at Cars45 is where we start this week’s TechCabal podcast. When 11 senior executives leave a startup in such dramatic fashion, people get curious.
Social media giant, Twitter is setting up its first African office and it will be in Ghana. The announcement was made through a tweet by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey where he thanked the president of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo. The tweet also included a link to a post on Twitter’s official blog written by Kayvon Beykpour, […]
The directive of the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued on the 8th of April, 2021 has been met with consternation and a straightforward (but hopefully simplistic) interpretation that the government is out to stifle innovators – again. These perspectives aren’t unfounded, as innovators of all shades have taken a heavy beating lately due […]
Last week, Ampersand, Africa’s first electric motorcycle company, secured a $3.5 million investment from the Ecosystem Integrity Fund (EIF). This is the largest ever e-mobility investment by a venture capital fund in Sub-Saharan Africa and could hint at a turning point in African electric transport. Based in Kigali, Rwanda, Ampersand assembles and finances electric motorcycles […]
Africa is home to the fastest-growing population globally, with numbers expected to rise by nearly 50% over the next 14 years, growing from 1.2 billion people today to over 1.8 billion in 2035. As the population increase outpaces economic growth, much of Africa’s youth, who account for most of the population, are moving into urban […]