Moonshot 2026 showed the future of Africa’s tech ecosystem

Atop Lagos’s newly renovated National Theatre, now the Wole Soyinka Centre for Arts & Culture, The…

Swoop launches Legends to help Lagos food vendors with insights, visibility and freebies

Some of Lagos’ most exciting food businesses have humble beginnings. A home kitchen, a handful of…

Bamboo’s ₦99bn Dangote Refinery IPO subscriptions put fintech ahead of major banks

Nigerian investment fintech Bamboo facilitated approximately ₦99 billion in subscriptions during the Dangote Refinery IPO, slightly…

Juicyway recieves approval from Nigerian SEC for exchange

Juicyway, a cross-border payments company, is building a platform connecting African assets with global investors, its…

Airtel’s Vittal, MTN’s Mupita re-elected to GSMA leadership as board prioritises fight against scams

Airtel Africa’s Chairman Gopal Vittal has been re-elected as Chairman of the GSMA Board of Directors…

MTN moves MoMo to Alipay+ as fintech revenue falls 26%

MTN Nigeria’s fintech revenue has yet to recover to pre-suspension levels after the company temporarily halted…

Nigerians can learn free AI and digital skills offline through Skilling Africa with Google

Google today launched Skilling Africa with Google, a free learning hub that gathers its digital and…

SA’s AI policy faces the bigger test of enforcing the rules

South Africa’s attempt to establish a national framework for artificial intelligence (AI) suffered a credibility crisis…

INEC’s AI photo problem is deeper than registration officers

AI-generated photographs in Nigeria’s preliminary voter register raise a question that goes beyond the technology used…

The problem with putting an African fintech on Wall Street

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