Africa

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  News

  dLocal to acquire Aza Finance to deepen African push

  Faith Omoniyi

  3rd June 2025

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  Startups

  Nigerians have tried and failed to curb dangerous policing; can a blockchain tool help? 

  John Adoyi

  3rd June 2025

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  Policy

  South Africans weigh in on whether elections should go digital or not

  Sakhile Dube

  3rd June 2025

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  Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Tech

  African Gen Zs vs. millennials: Age and generative AI

  Fancy Goodman

  30th May 2025

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  Assistive Tech, Features

  Screen readers, audio-described software, and films: Inside Opeoluwa Akinola’s mission to empower people with disabilities

  Editor

  29th May 2025

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  Opinion

  Africa’s 500 million person question (Part 1)

  Guest Author

  28th May 2025

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  Companies

  Inside CWG’s quiet rise: How a legacy hardware vendor built a ₦46 billion IT engine

  Bunmi Bailey

  26th May 2025

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  Analysis

  Nigerians lost nearly ₦8 billion trying to enter Europe in 2024; the cost wasn’t just financial

  Bunmi Bailey

  26th May 2025

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: Why Africa’s tech dream is political

  Adonijah Ndege

  26th May 2025

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  Analysis, Telecoms

  IHS trims tower portfolio to 37,700 in strategic shift from smaller African markets

  Frank Eleanya

  26th May 2025

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  Artificial Intelligence, Climate, Features

  How three Nigerian teens built AI-powered solution to protect forests

  John Adoyi

  23rd May 2025

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  Banking

  FX gains are drying up, and so are Nigerian banks’ profit margins

  Bunmi Bailey

  22nd May 2025

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  Analysis, Ecommerce

  OmniRetail raised $20 million. Here is what it means for 78% of its customers who are women

  Ngozi Chukwu

  21st May 2025

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  News, Policy

  U.S. 5% remittance tax plan to threaten $2.8 billion of Africa’s foreign inflows

  Sakhile Dube

  20th May 2025

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  Digital Nomads

  Digital Nomads: This Ethiopian-born 6x founder is building a Web3 game to connect with her roots

  Emmanuel Nwosu

  17th May 2025

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  Startups

  10 African startups opening markets, cutting CO2 & seafarming no one’s talking about yet

  Faith Omoniyi

  15th May 2025

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  Analysis, News

  MTN’s BankTech disburses $592 million in Q1 loans amid rising credit demand

  Frank Eleanya

  14th May 2025

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  News, Startups

  Roam, M-Kopa top Kenyan firms on FT Africa’s fastest-growing companies list

  Adonijah Ndege

  14th May 2025

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  Analysis, Telecoms

  What MTN’s first ₦1 trillion quarter says about the future of Nigerian telcos

  Bunmi Bailey

  12th May 2025

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  News, Telecoms

  IHS shares hit 20-month high as Nigerian telcos bounce back

  Frank Eleanya

  12th May 2025

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  Day 1-1000

  Day 1–1000: How Sycamore founders built the fintech from a living room

  Faith Omoniyi

  10th May 2025

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  Features, Long Reads, Startups

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

  Kosisochukwu Ugwuede

  10th May 2025

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  Digital Nomads

  Digital Nomads: This founder is building ‘the future of e-commerce’ and it all started in Rwanda

  Emmanuel Nwosu

  10th May 2025

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  Companies, Mobile Money, News

  Airtel plans 2026 IPO for mobile money unit in push against M-Pesa, MoMo

  Adonijah Ndege

  8th May 2025

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  Banking, Follow the Money

  ₦76.5 trillion and counting: Inside the payment surge at GTCO and Access Holdings

  Bunmi Bailey

  5th May 2025

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  News, Telecoms

  Airtel Africa partners SpaceX to expand Starlink to remote communities

  Frank Eleanya

  5th May 2025

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  News, Telecoms

  Facebook, TikTok videos drive Nigeria’s record internet traffic

  Frank Eleanya

  22nd April 2025

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  Internet, News

  Opera Mini rolls out AI-powered upgrade to take on Google and Microsoft browsers

  Frank Eleanya

  16th April 2025

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  Ask An Investor

  Axel Peyriere’s guide to angel investing in Africa

  Muktar Oladunmade

  14th April 2025

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  Features, Startups

  Ghana’s Affinity Africa wants you to carry a full-fledged bank in your pocket

  Kosisochukwu Ugwuede

  14th April 2025

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  Artificial Intelligence, Startups

  Ex-Interswitch and Microsoft employees are building AI-powered sales assistants for Africa

  Frank Eleanya

  14th April 2025

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  Analysis

  Experts see Trump’s tariff triggering domino effect on Nigerian startups

  Bunmi Bailey

  11th April 2025

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  Ask An Investor

  How to convince local HNWIs to invest in African startups, according to Marge Ntambi

  Muktar Oladunmade

  7th April 2025

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  News

  Google’s Taara Lightbridge takes on Starlink with laser-powered internet

  Frank Eleanya

  21st March 2025

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  Opinion

  The hidden benefits of Trump’s aid policy for Africa 

  Guest Author

  14th March 2025

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  Ask An Investor

  With $100,000 per startup, Antler VC enters Nigeria to back startup ideas

  Muktar Oladunmade

  3rd March 2025

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  Telecoms

  $2million per fix: The hidden costs of Africa’s fragile internet infrastructure 

  Frank Eleanya

  27th February 2025

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  News

  Breaking: 54 Collective to cut jobs as Mastercard Foundation partnership ends

  Muktar Oladunmade

  25th February 2025

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  News

  Multichoice hikes DStv and GOtv for the second time in a year as part of “inflationary pricing”

  Muktar Oladunmade

  24th February 2025

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  News

  Jumia aggressive cost-cutting in 2024 narrows losses to $65 million

  Muktar Oladunmade

  20th February 2025