Pitch Guide

TechCabal is Africa’s leading technology publication, dedicated to covering Africa’s vibrant technology industry, particularly its players, its human, and economic impact. We seek reporting and stories that drive understanding of how innovation is shaping the economies, policies, and everyday lives of Africans.

Over the next year, TechCabal is building out a network of the best feature writers from across the African continent to help expand and deepen its coverage. 

We are looking for writers who can produce fact-checked, deeply reported, engaging and nuanced narratives on innovative startups, the business of tech, policymaking, and human interest stories (i.e. stories about the workings of technology in the real, practical world). We are looking for writers who reside in any part of the continent but particularly those based in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Cairo, Dakar, and Tunis. 

Pitch Guidelines

Please send a 300-400 word pitch for features on innovative startups, the business of tech, policymaking around innovation, and the intersection of culture and technology in Africa. 

Your pitch must include:

  • a working headline as the email subject; for example: “PITCH: This Tunis-based Entrepreneur Wants to Outfit Homes With Smart Control Systems”
  • a one-paragraph summary of the story’s core narrative
  • potential sources you plan to interview and how you’ll access or have accessed them
  • a compelling angle and/or timeliness factor
  • proposed multimedia elements (we’re open to commissioning photography where possible)
  • anticipated challenges in reporting/writing the story, and your proactive approach to addressing them
  • target word count and proposed delivery timeline
  • why you are the best person to write the story and who you envision as its ideal audience
  • a short bio and 2-3 samples (as accessible links or PDFs) of previous feature writing

Send your pitches in the body of the email to the features editor, Kosisochukwu Ugwuede: kay [at] bigcabal.com

Remuneration

We pay $175 for features that are between 1,000-1,200 words. We’re open to discussing payment for longer features if the story is compelling enough.