Koolboks wants to be more than a freezer: Day 1-1000 of Koolboks
For most people in Sub-Saharan Africa, electricity is unstable at best, nonexistent at worst. This leads to a variety of problems: low productivity, h...
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Digital Nomads: You too can become a global site reliability engineer, like Leke Ariyo
Leke Ariyo told me that he had always known he wanted to build a global career....
His daughter’s health scare during COVID lockdowns birthed Heala
In 2020, as Nigeria entered the COVID-19 lockdown, Anderson Oriahi faced one of the most vulnerable moments of his life. He was a first-time father, a...
Kenya’s Central Bank, the guard dog that won’t bite
For nearly a year, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has been cutting interest rates and demanding that commercial banks follow suit. But despite the re...
7 African startups powering credit, crypto, creators, and capital
Startups On Our Radar spotlights African startups solving African challenges with innovation. In our previous edition, we featured 7 game-changing sta...
Inside the failed courtship between Kenya BNLP startup Lipa Later and Nigeria’s Klump
In late 2022, Klump, an early-stage Nigerian buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) startup, got a surprise push from one of its investors. A contact connected to t...
Nigerians are investing with cNGN stablecoin. Regulators say this is risky
When Asset Chain, a Nigerian blockchain company, launched a money market product through its affiliate crypto investment app Xend Finance in May, it m...
Nigeria wants an AI that speaks like its people, but can it deliver?
In September 2024, the Nigerian government formed a quiet yet ambitious partnership with Awarri, a Lagos-based frontier technology startup, to develop...
Nigeria, Kenya in talks to launch Africa’s next shared satellite
The Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Ltd and the Kenyan Space Agency (KSA) have opened discussions on deepening collaboration in space te...
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