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What the Rest of Africa can Learn from South Africa’s Cloud Advancement: Fibre and Connectivity

What the Rest of Africa can Learn from South Africa’s Cloud Advancement: Fibre and Connectivity

Advocating for cloud advancement means setting up regulatory and infrastructural framework necessary for cloud services. The high-capacity needs brought on by the arrival of broadband technology have helped to accelerate this development, which was initially fueled by the extremely quick growth of mobile telephony. Data transfers on various networks as

Despite 4.5% 4G subscribers in Zambia, MTN rolls out its 5G service in the country

Despite 4.5% 4G subscribers in Zambia, MTN rolls out its 5G service in the country

MTN, a pan-African South-African mobile network operator (MNO) has launched its 5G service in Zambia, a country in the Southern African region. The telecom operator had previously launched its 5G services in South Africa and Nigeria in 2020 and 2022 respectively. Zambia’s 19.6 million people are not compared

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE NIGERIAN FINTECH SECTOR

fintech startup

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE NIGERIAN FINTECH SECTOR

Fintech is a combination of the words “finance” and “technology. According to Corporate Finance Institute, it describes the evolution of an industry where new technology use cases are developed and deployed to streamline more traditional-looking finance functions. In the Nigerian fintech sector, the payments sub-sector employs the most fintech players,

Ride-Hailing Liberty in Tunisia

Ride-Hailing Liberty in Tunisia

Tech-enabled or not, there is no doubt that transportation is one of the best businesses to venture into. The story is not different in Tunisia, it is ranked the Third best business initiative in the country. In fact, the value of Transportation is worth about 1208.46 TND Million which

You Can Now Game in the Metaverse

You Can Now Game in the Metaverse

It was typical to see young people wasting their time doing what was considered to be “nothing” decades ago, when the game industry was still in its infancy. But the game business has seen countless revisions and modifications since those storied times. With the introduction of virtual reality and the

What is Keeping Foreign Investors Glued to South Africa?

What is Keeping Foreign Investors Glued to South Africa?

South Africa has a budding startup ecosystem, being among the biggest tech ecosystem on the continent. 92% of Africa’s investment in tech was won by four countries: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa. Their sizable populations and high Gross Domestic Products (GDP) makes them desirable investment locations, and attractive

Growth Stage, Soonicorn, Unicorn. What Stage is Your Favorite Startup in?

Growth Stage, Soonicorn, Unicorn. What Stage is Your Favorite Startup in?

Experts have generated different concepts to describe and understand startup stages. While moving from early stage to venture funding stage is easier to grasp, the stages that follow have been usually described by their latest funding rounds. This is vague. Describing startups by funding rounds can’t really hold as

Sudan Embracing E-commerce Plus The Nitty Gritty

Sudan Embracing E-commerce Plus The Nitty Gritty

There are obvious signs that within Sudan, a North African country, communities are now embracing various niches of technology, e-commerce included. Going back in time, Sudan has always been active in commerce, especially in the trading of gold, cattle, wheat and many more, yet the nation has often come across

Backend Stories: Nigerian founder, Darlyn Okojie is building a Pan-African employee management solution with cakes

Backend Stories: Nigerian founder, Darlyn Okojie is building a Pan-African employee management solution with cakes

Managing workers or employees is usually the responsibility of Human Resource Managers (HRMs) in organisations big enough to employ them. Employees can comfortably communicate their concerns — whatever the case may be to enable growth and optimise outputs. Owing to cultural diversity, language, disabilities and the other different demographics humans fall

Now Stitching with Direct Deposit

Now Stitching with Direct Deposit

Direct deposits should be a default for businesses. Its ubiquitous nature makes it more efficient than traditional deposits via banks. To fully automate transactions, South African payments and data API startup, Stitch, has announced the launch of direct deposit or manual transfer as a payment method. Stitch’s direct deposit

WHY TECH TALENTS ARE ABANDONING THEIR REGIONS FOR LAGOS

WHY TECH TALENTS ARE ABANDONING THEIR REGIONS FOR LAGOS

Nigeria, with 210 million people, accounts for at least 20% of Africa’s population which is expected to exceed 400 million by 2050. Nigeria also has a 42% internet penetration rate, translating to 86 million internet subscribers in Nigeria, a growing middle class accounting for approximately 23% of the population,

The Ticking Time Bomb in Africa’s Startup Ecosystem

The Ticking Time Bomb in Africa’s Startup Ecosystem

It is important to note that Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem benefits from the positive economic outlook from the West. These benefits are underpinned from the benefits it receives from the unclassical tech startup funding and growth. Transformation has been driven by technological innovation, economies of scale, globalization and financial

Satellite-Mania in Southern Africa

Satellite-Mania in Southern Africa

Telecommunications technology has developed several systems and tools in recent years. It aims to be at the forefront of digital process, regardless of the various circumstances that may block the communication and coverage, such as the weather or geographic location, in order for the various economic sectors to develop their

Leta, Kenya's B2B Supply Chain and Logistics SaaS Platform, Gets $3M to Expand to Nigeria and Cameron

B2B SaaS Startups

Leta, Kenya's B2B Supply Chain and Logistics SaaS Platform, Gets $3M to Expand to Nigeria and Cameron

Leta, a Kenyan B2B supply chain and logistics SaaS provider, has announced receiving a $3 million pre-seed investment from 4Di Capital, Chandaria Capital, Chui Ventures, PANI, Samurai Incubate, and Verdant Frontiers Fintech and individual investors like Cellulant co-founder Ken Njoroge and Google executive, Charles Murito to expand its operations into

Top Libyan Startups; PTSD Yet Striving

Top Libyan Startups; PTSD Yet Striving

If time is taken to study the Libyan tech ecosystem, there are obvious signs that the startups within the North African country are faced with challenges, especially in funding. Within the last 11 years, Libya as a nation has been war-torn and faced with political and economic challenges. Citizens are

Yaga is Revolutionizing Second-hand Fashion in Africa

Yaga is Revolutionizing Second-hand Fashion in Africa

The coronavirus-enforced lockdowns ensured a surge in e-commerce shopping across Africa. Post-lockdown Africa was time for everything that happens online to thrive— and, in some ways, it has. For e-commerce startups, the larger customer base and increase in orders have translated into more earnings. To further increase efficiency of e-commerce,

Still no South African Startup Unicorn

Still no South African Startup Unicorn

There are currently 10 unicorn startups in Africa spread unevenly across the sub-regions. A unicorn achievement offers optimism to underserved markets, businesses and innovators that they are comparable to their global peers, and the supply of seed and post-seed funds for business-building support is increasing. According to a study on

Exclusive: Jeje, MOBicure's Tool To Tackle Mental Stress In Nigeria

Exclusive: Jeje, MOBicure's Tool To Tackle Mental Stress In Nigeria

Nigeria’s Mental Health Situation At the beginning of 2020, The Nigerian government recognized that 3 in 10 Nigerians suffered from at least one form of mental health illness or the other. As reported by Vanguard Newspaper, the nation’s House of Representatives saw the need to take significant steps

Examining the Kenyan Tech Startups Lay offs Tsunami

Kenyan Tech startups Layoffs

Examining the Kenyan Tech Startups Lay offs Tsunami

2022 has been a very good year for the African tech startups ecosystem, per data from Africa: The Big Deal shows that startups on the continent have set new funding records every month in 2022, whereas this cannot be said for global tech due to falling valuations, falling stock prices,

African startups pioneering the Creator Economy

African creator economy

African startups pioneering the Creator Economy

In an earlier piece, the African creator economy was analysed. In it, a creator was defined as well as amplifying the fact that the African continent is behind in the right resources to spread out fully if not to compete. Not just are African startups focusing on the creator economy

Sites For Business Convenience; Quick Dive Into Egypt's Startup Law

Sites For Business Convenience; Quick Dive Into Egypt's Startup Law

Unlike the “Big Bang Theory,” startups did not just appear in existence without an origin, in-fact every generation had businesses with the characteristics of a startup, but they were called different names. Understanding Startups/Small Business; History Way Back Then In the literal form, the term “startup” goes as far

Kwacha Rise Yet to Spur Growth Among Zambian Startups

Currency Valuation

Kwacha Rise Yet to Spur Growth Among Zambian Startups

The Zambian government has demonstrated it possesses the political will to transform the economic fortunes of the country. While some of Africa’s heavyweights including South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya have struggled with rising inflation, Zambia has sustained its currency growth. The Zambian kwacha is the world’s best

The Future of Jobs: A Glance Through The African Creator Economy

African creator economy

The Future of Jobs: A Glance Through The African Creator Economy

The global creator economy is estimated to be worth over $100 billion. The world population which now pegs at 8 billion has an average of 1.4 trillion or 16.72% from Africa. With these statistics, the African continent is renowned for its active youth population as well as the