The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Fri, Aug 21
Two takes in, the same tension sharpens: a company selling African governments on homegrown defence systems is now confirmed to be opening a London office justified partly by access to talent it can't find — or won't recruit — at home.
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SpaceX is asking ICASA to rewrite the rule. Amazon just hired someone who already had the licence.
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South Africa produces roughly 70% of the world's platinum and 38% of its manganese — two materials central to the infrastructure powering the global AI build-out. Not one African country has signed the US agreement designed to govern…
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The funding gap is the number that deserves the most attention here. Nigeria's government has secured roughly $900 million in commitments from the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the EBRD toward a project that needs $2 billion…
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Seven million UnionPay cards are already in circulation across Africa. Standard Bank just gave 900 merchants across nine markets a way to accept them online — in local currency, dollars, or both.
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The SEC's reach-beyond-borders rule is the part worth sitting with. If Nigerian users touch your platform, Nigerian law now applies — full stop, wherever your company is incorporated.
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South Africa spent years trying to build a Wireless Open Access Network — a government-mandated wholesale broadband layer that would let smaller providers ride shared infrastructure instead of each building their own. It never materialised.
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