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One-click debt-trap: How product design fuels predatory lending in Nigerian fintech

Muktar Oladunmade

15th Dec, 2025
Features, Long Reads, Startups

This SaaS company wants Nigerian & African tailors to ditch ‘paper and pen’ operations

Kosisochukwu Ugwuede

10th May, 2025
Long Reads

Content creation is booming in Botswana but monetisation remains a puzzle

Ephraim Modise

7th Aug, 2023
Long Reads

Mapping the growth trajectory of South Africa’s data centre industry

Ephraim Modise

20th Feb, 2023
Long Reads

Buy-now-pay-later in South Africa: A farce or the next big thing?

Ephraim Modise

6th Feb, 2023
Long Reads

Inside SweepSouth’s decision to close its Nigerian and Kenyan businesses

Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega

20th Jan, 2023
Ecosystem, Features, Long Reads

Techstars’ mentor on how Africa can rise to its calling as the continent of the future

Caleb Nnamani

2nd Nov, 2022
Ecosystem, Features, Long Reads

Investors require startups to have technical cofounders. But is that necessary?

Caleb Nnamani

30th Sep, 2022
Business, Internet, Long Reads, Mobile

9Mobile’s new CEO is pinning the company’s future on digital services

Abubakar Idris

25th Aug, 2020
10 years of TechCabal, Business, FinTech, Long Reads, Mobile, News

How Chinese tech billionaire Yahui Zhou is calling the shots at OPay

Abubakar Idris

21st Jul, 2020
FinTech, Internet, Long Reads, News

After raising $10m, Nigerian e-commerce startup TradeDepot is expanding to financial services

Abubakar Idris

16th Jul, 2020
Long Reads, News, Startups

How MAX is scaling its mobility solutions despite Lagos Okada ban

Abubakar Idris

9th Jul, 2020
Business, FinTech, Long Reads, Mobile, News, Startups

Exclusive: OPay’s core payments business is still growing

Abubakar Idris

11th Jun, 2020
Business, Fundamentals, Government, Internet, Long Reads, Media, Mobile, News

Nigerian news media’s struggle with a sustainable business model

Abubakar Idris

8th May, 2020
Business, Government, Internet, Long Reads, Mobile, News, Policy

Pandemic anxiety means Nigerians are vulnerable to online scams and fake news

Abubakar Idris

3rd Apr, 2020
Business, Ecosystem, FinTech, Government, Long Reads, News, Policy, Startups

Two weeks after Cameroon exit, Jumia closes shop in Tanzania in pursuit of profits

Abubakar Idris

28th Nov, 2019
Business, Ecosystem, Government, Long Reads, Mobile, News, Policy, Politics, Startups

Bike-hailing companies must be taxed because they are foreign-owned, says NURTW official

Abubakar Idris

27th Nov, 2019
Features, Long Reads, My Life In Tech

My Life In Tech: In Obi Ozor’s world, audacity is king

Kosisochukwu Ugwuede

16th Oct, 2019
Business, FinTech, Internet, Long Reads, Mobile, News, Opinion, Policy, Reviews, Ridesharing, Startups

OEverything: Can OPay dominate Nigeria’s fintech market?

Abubakar Idris

2nd Oct, 2019
African Tech Roundup, Business, Digest, Ecosystem, Long Reads, News, Startups

Facing multiple lawsuits and $120 million losses, Jumia unearths fraud in earnings report

Abubakar Idris

22nd Aug, 2019

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