Africa

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  Ecommerce

  Jumia’s $19m loss is a bright spot as active customers decline in Q3

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  15th November 2023

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  Business

  Nigeria’s headline inflation rises again as rate hike meeting stalls

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  15th November 2023

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  Agritech, The BackEnd

  Constellr wants to enhance farming in Africa with data

  Muhammed Akinyemi

  15th November 2023

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  Acquisitions, Banking

  Union Bank is now a private company one year after ₦191bn acquisition

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  14th November 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: Maybe Africa needs to pause its rush to adopt digital IDs

  Kenn Abuya

  13th November 2023

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  Consumer Tech

  The best smartphone so far in 2023

  Damilola Makinde

  9th November 2023

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  Moonshot Conversations

  Prolific VC firm MaC Venture Capital shares its investment thesis for Africa

  Muktar Oladunmade

  8th November 2023

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  News

  Nigerian startups win big at Global Startup Awards Africa

  Faith Omoniyi

  8th November 2023

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  Features

  Africa’s geothermal expansion gathers steam

  Guest Author

  8th November 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: The mental price of being a founder

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  6th November 2023

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  Agritech, Exclusive, News

  Exclusive: Crowdyvest proposes converting ₦7.7 billion it owes customers to equity

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  2nd November 2023

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  Products, The BackEnd

  Is that fake news? Ask FactCheck Africa’s AI tool

  Muhammed Akinyemi

  30th October 2023

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  Telecoms

  MTN Nigeria’s revenue rose by 21.76% to ₦1.77 trillion in nine months of 2023

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  30th October 2023

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  Consumer Tech

  How the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses can help curb vices in Africa

  Damilola Makinde

  27th October 2023

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  Cloud Computing, Enterprise, News

  Africa’s cloud market is small but growing fast, and everyone wants a slice

  Abraham Augustine

  26th October 2023

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  FinTech

  Vella Finance to stop crypto trading and focus on SME banking

  Tobi Afolabi

  25th October 2023

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  Consumer Tech

  Sending money between Equity Bank & MPESA 2023

  Damilola Makinde

  23rd October 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave, Venture Capital

  Next Wave: Do VCs still believe in VCing?

  Abraham Augustine

  16th October 2023

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  Moonshot Conversations

  How tech businesses can win in an African market

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  11th October 2023

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  Artificial Intelligence

  AI offers opportunity to digitise African culture

  Faith Omoniyi

  11th October 2023

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  Regulation

  OPay, DHL, Meta may face steep fines as NDPC begins investigation into alleged data privacy violations

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  10th October 2023

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  Consumer Tech

  Carrying out all MPESA PayPal transactions 2023

  Damilola Makinde

  10th October 2023

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  Events

  5 vital reasons to attend Moonshot by TechCabal 2023

  Damilola Makinde

  9th October 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: When is the ultimate Eldorado for a startup founder?

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  2nd October 2023

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  Startups

  The people who call the shots at Kuda Bank

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  29th September 2023

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  News

  Enza Capital launches $58 million Founder partner program in Africa

  Faith Omoniyi

  28th September 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave, Venture Capital

  Next Wave: Africa’s investors have their work cut out for them

  Abraham Augustine

  25th September 2023

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  Business

  Access Bank profits grow 52% in H1 2023

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  23rd September 2023

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  Business

  Struggling with record inflation, Nigeria’s Central Bank postpones meeting to decide interest rates

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  21st September 2023

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  Features

  Exclusive: Inside Francis Dufay’s urgent plans to rescue Jumia, the struggling Amazon of Africa

  Abubakar Idris

  21st September 2023

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  Funding

  Fixit45 raises $1.9 million to expand into East Africa

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  21st September 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: A modern retail wave is building up across Africa

  Abraham Augustine

  18th September 2023

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  News

  Breaking: Gates Foundation funds 29 healthcare supply chain startups

  Muktar Oladunmade

  18th September 2023

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  Business

  President Tinubu nominates Yemi Cardoso as Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  15th September 2023

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  Business

  Driven by food prices, Nigeria’s headline inflation hits 25% in August

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  15th September 2023

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  Startups

  Exclusive: Flutterwave’s Olugbenga Agboola speaks on FW 3.0, IPO plans, and upgrading Barter

  Kenn Abuya

  15th September 2023

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  Ecosystem, Startups

  Your favourite tech startup wants to go public; it may make everyone involved unbelievably liquid

  Abraham Augustine

  15th September 2023

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  Consumer Tech

  Was the iPhone 15 worth the wait?

  Damilola Makinde

  15th September 2023

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  Funding

  Ugandan startup, Emata raises $2.4 million in seed round

  Mariam Muhammad

  14th September 2023

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  News, Press Release

  Exclusive: Nigerian web hosting company, WhoGoHost acquires SendChamp

  Mariam Muhammad

  14th September 2023