Globally, women in tech make up about 28.8% of the tech workforce as of 2020. While this number is an increase from 25.9% in 2018 and 26.2% in 2019, reports still show it could take 12 years for women to have equal representation in tech. In Africa, it will take even longer than the estimated […]
From Mpesa to Lifebank, these are some of the companies that have defined technology in Africa in the last decade. Note: Voices were raised (in excitement) in the making of this list and it is not an ordered list. We were in our Christmas spirit at the office when Alex booted the idea of a […]
Kenya’s Bamba Group raised $1.1 million in seed investment and the internet shut down in Anglophone Cameroon is now in its 30th day.
A new seed investment fund has launched in Morocco
So says, Duncan Arthur, in this open letter published on HumanIPO. You might further have noticed that the most forward thinking of your competitors no longer trumpet Safaricom and M-Pesa as the main topic of discussion. Africans have cottoned onto this. Well, when event organisers, not domain experts, are allowed to set the agenda for […]