The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Tue, Aug 25
360,000 homes a year is an impressive number. But South Africa has roughly 4.5 million homes connected to high-speed internet today, against a stated potential of 15 million. The gap isn't mainly capital — it's been affordability in…
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A 30% selldown condition sounds like a footnote. It isn't.
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Eighty-four deals, $11.4 billion — that sounds like a maturing market finding its shape.
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The EGP 319m scandal at Global Paradigm wasn't a rogue operator going off-script. It was the logical endpoint of a market racing for borrowers faster than rules could catch them.
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MTN's CEO Ralph Mupita put it as plainly as anyone can: "we can't put any money in, and we can't take any money out." That has been true since 2018. It is now about to get significantly worse.
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Faking two experts' CVs to win a $98,000 Somalia contract is embarrassing. Receiving ten written reminders from the World Bank and still refusing to hand over your accounting records — that's the part that should alarm anyone who cares…
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African governments pushing for data sovereignty — keeping citizens' data stored and governed locally, not on foreign servers under foreign law — has mostly been framed as a headache for big cloud providers.
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South Africa built MTN. Nigeria and Ghana are now running it.
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The deadline itself is the mechanism. Kenya's compliance cut-off doesn't wait for a regulator to act — it lets time do the work, quietly sorting who stays from who can't.
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