Moniepoint Lent ₦1 Trillion Using Payment Data as Gospel. Two Massive Defaults Just Exposed the Limits of Knowing Everything Except What Happens Next. Nigeria's fastest-growing fintech disbursed ₦1 trillion to 70,000 businesses in byBolu BabalolaMarch 6, 2026
Francophone Africa’s VC Awakening: How AfDB’s €6.5M Saviu Fund Is Shifting the Power Map West and Central For years, African VC has meant Lagos, Nairobi, and Cape Town byFatima OladunniMarch 6, 2026
Enugu’s Quiet Tech Takeover: Can Nigeria’s Southeast Become the Continent’s Next Lagos or Nairobi? With 53,000 people at its tech festival, $50M in startup funding facilitated, byFatima OladunniMarch 4, 2026
Big Tech Must Pay Up: ECOWAS’ Emerging Strategy to Force Fair Compensation for African News in the AI Training Era While OpenAI pays Western publishers $1-5M annually for training data, African byBolu BabalolaMarch 4, 2026
Africa News StartupApril 23, 2025 Apply Now: UNICEF StartUp Lab Accelerator Seeks Ghanaian Startups Advancing SDGs for Youth. Applications are now open for the 2025 cohort of the UNICEF StartUp Lab, a byBolu Babalola
Africa News StartupApril 23, 2025 DPI Launches Venture Arm to Back Africa’s Next Tech Innovators. Development Partners International (DPI), a leading Africa-focused private byBolu Babalola
Africa News StartupApril 21, 2025 Google for Startups Accelerator Africa 2025 Now Open for Applications. Google has officially opened applications for the 2025 cohort of its Google for byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaApril 17, 2025 Crop2Cash Wins 2025 Supernova Challenge at GITEX Africa Morocco. Nigerian agritech startup Crop2Cash has emerged as the grand winner of the byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsApril 17, 2025 Afreximbank and Egypt Host Inaugural FOCUS Africa Forum to Drive Trade and Investment on the Continent. The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in collaboration with Egypt’s byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsApril 16, 2025 MTN Ghana Launches SME Accelerate to Empower Small Businesses with Digital Innovation. MTN Ghana has officially launched SME Accelerate, a transformative new byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsApril 16, 2025 Visa Expands Fintech Footprint in Africa with Strategic Investments and Partnerships. Visa, a global leader in digital payments, has announced strategic investments byBolu Babalola
Africa Events NewsApril 12, 2025 Africa’s Largest Early-Stage Startup Competition Returns: Supernova Challenge 2.0 Set to Ignite Innovation at GITEX Africa 2025. Africa’s biggest stage for early-stage innovation is back — and it’s more byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsApril 8, 2025 AfriLabs Receives $150,000 Boost from Airbnb Community Fund. AfriLabs, a leading pan-African network of technology and innovation hubs, has byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsApril 8, 2025 Ivory Coast’s Djamo Secures $17M to Expand its Mobile Banking. Ivory Coast-based fintech startup Djamo has raised $17 million in equity funding byBolu Babalola
