My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. James Baldwin says, “History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we are literally criminals.” While […]
Tech startups in Nigeria have lent their voices to the citizen-led #EndSARS movement that has taken the country by storm over the past week. From their official handles, a number of fintechs have tweeted the hashtag and made donations to cater for protesters in various ways. Feeding, medication and legal defense support have been the […]
Months of angst and protests on the streets of Twitter against a special police force unit known to terrorise and extort from young Nigerians have finally spilled over into the streets of major cities across the country. In Lagos, in Abuja, the nation’s capital, in Delta, in Osun, in Ogun, in Anambra, east of the […]
Police officers are supposed to secure lives and properties. But Nigerians have flooded the streets this week demanding the complete shutdown of a particularly unruly unit that remains a sustained threat to their lives. This is not a new story. Over the past year and half, TechCabal has reported on multiple instances where the Special […]