The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Tue, Sep 1
The CBK's approval clears the last big formal hurdle. But the deal structure is the interesting part: 80% of the consideration paid in Nedbank shares, meaning NCBA's existing shareholders end up holding nearly 9% of a Johannesburg-listed…
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Two takes in, the structural point stands: private capital still hasn't followed development finance into African early-stage investing.
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Allawee wasn't just another Nigerian fintech — by 2025 it was the quiet infrastructure behind card programmes at PiggyVest, Nomba and Carbon. That kind of embedded plumbing takes years to earn.
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Satellite broadband's entire subscriber base in Zimbabwe was 3,814 connections in mid-2024. By early 2026 it was 86,488 — within 17 of matching every fibre line in the country.
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For years, Airtel Kenya has had to rent the very pipes and pathways it needs to serve its own customers — paying rivals and intermediaries to carry its traffic, domestically and internationally. That dependency has a cost on every bill,…
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Keeping four-fifths of customer assets offline — disconnected from any live system a hacker can reach — is genuinely how you stop an exchange collapse wiping out ordinary savers.
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