The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Sat, Jul 25
The tracking system baked into Tecno, Infinix and Itel handsets — which together account for nearly half of all smartphones sold in Africa — cannot be switched off. It runs as part of the operating system itself. There is no setting to…
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The executive order settles the question of intent. Nigeria is no longer trying to push crypto out; it is trying to bring it inside a supervised system.
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What's easy to miss in the size of this raise is what it actually represents structurally: this is the first time Dangote Refinery has ever let external investors onto its share register.
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The continent sits on vast reserves of the minerals that go into EV batteries — lithium, cobalt, manganese — yet almost all of the manufacturing value has flowed to Asian factories. Africa digs it up; someone else adds the margin.
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Most competition law asks one question: does this company own the market? Kenya's new Bill asks a different one — can this platform make your business unviable if you leave it?
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When companies use algorithms to set prices in real time, there's no smoking-gun email between executives — just software reacting to software, coordination without conversation.
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The source material here is thin, so this has to be honest: there is no new substance to advance beyond the confirmation that the listing is still on track.
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A licensing framework for crypto exchanges sounds like the obvious next step after years of enforcement-first policy in Kenya.
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