Top 10 African Tech Investors in 2026 So Far Development finance institutions, a homegrown Moroccan fund, and a syndicate of 4 minute read
September 2026 Africa Tech and Creative Events: The Full Roundup A month-by-month, country-by-country roundup of Africa's biggest tech and 4 minute read
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Top 10 African Tech Investors in 2026 So Far Development finance institutions, a homegrown Moroccan fund, and a syndicate of byBolu BabalolaSeptember 7, 2026
September 2026 Africa Tech and Creative Events: The Full Roundup A month-by-month, country-by-country roundup of Africa's biggest tech and byFatima OladunniSeptember 7, 2026
Google Engineer Chisom Okwor Builds Automated Braiding Device Google software engineer Chisom Okwor is building Braidiant, a handheld device byBolu BabalolaSeptember 3, 2026
Nomba Raises $3M Debt Facility for Africa-Asia Payments Push Nomba has secured a $3 million debt facility from CardinalStone Finance Company byGuest PostSeptember 3, 2026
Events News NigeriaMarch 4, 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 Oladunni
Africa NewsMarch 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 Babalola
Africa NewsMarch 2, 2026 MTN Ghana Just Became Africa’s Third Most Important Telecom Market — And It’s Betting $1.1 Billion That AI and Mobile Money Will Keep It There After South Africa and Nigeria, Ghana is now MTN Group's third "major byBolu Babalola
NewsFebruary 27, 2026 Alerzo Is Liquidating Its Fleet as Moniepoint Chases ₦4.4 Billion in Debt — And It’s a Warning for Every B2B Startup in Africa The Ibadan-based B2B e-commerce platform that raised $20 million is now selling byMuhammed Mustapha
News NigeriaFebruary 26, 2026 Lagos Is Getting a $250 Million Hyperscale Data Center. Here’s Why Nigeria Still Can’t Power the Cloud. Kasi Cloud just broke ground on what will become one of Africa's largest data byFatima Oladunni
Africa News StartupFebruary 26, 2026 Ghana’s Fido Just Raised $5.5M to Prove AI Can Underwrite Africa’s ‘Unbankable’ — Without a Credit Score in Sight With over 1 million customers, $500 million disbursed, and a proprietary AI byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 25, 2026 Spiro Just Raised $50M in Debt to Flood Africa With Electric Motorcycles. The Real Question: Can Battery Swaps Actually Scale? With 80,000 e-bikes deployed, 30 million battery swaps completed, and $230 byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 24, 2026 Morocco’s WafR Just Raised $4M to Turn 100,000 Corner Stores Into Digital Banks. Here’s Why That Actually Works With 20,000 neighborhood shops already processing mobile top-ups, bill payments, byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 24, 2026 Wasoko-MaxAB Is Quietly Purging Its Founder DNA — And Betting Everything on Fintech A year after Africa's biggest B2B merger, the growth-at-all-costs founders are byBetty Wangari
News Rest of the WorldFebruary 24, 2026 Anthropic Just Accused DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of Running a $450 Million Heist — Using 24,000 Fake Accounts In the most detailed public accusation of AI model theft to date, Anthropic says byBolu Babalola
