The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Fri, Jul 10
A business owner in Douala paying a supplier in Lagos currently has no direct route. The CFA franc and the naira don't talk to each other cheaply, so the money flies to a European or American correspondent bank and back — burning 5–8% in…
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KOKO built something real: smart fuel dispensers in over a million Kenyan homes, a cleaner alternative to charcoal, twelve years of technology development.
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Bereket Engida built Better Auth alone, in Ethiopia, before anyone gave him a cheque. By the time Vercel — one of the most influential developer platforms in the world — came calling, the library had 4.7 million weekly downloads and 850…
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The Kenya Copyright Tribunal's answer on AI authorship is clear enough: a machine can't own a copyright, and neither can someone who simply prompted one.
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Nigeria's electricity regulator has done something genuinely useful: if your solar setup is under 100 kilowatts, you no longer need a formal licence to generate and sell power — just register.
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Kenya's government owns just one-fifth of Safaricom — but the shareholder vote on July 31 will reveal whether that stake still buys meaningful control over the continent's most consequential mobile-money network.
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