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Niche Platforms Are Eating African Mass Media From the Inside The Lagos newspaper that once reached two million readers is printing fewer byBolu BabalolaMay 11, 2026
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Africa News NigeriaApril 24, 2026 A 19-Year-Old Thiel Fellow Just Raised $7.3M to Build Africa’s Super App — Starting With Food Delivery in Yaba Swoop, an Eswatini-born consumer startup, has raised $7 byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsApril 24, 2026 Bokra Secures VC and PE Licences in Egypt to Expand Revenue-Based Financing for Startups Egyptian fintech Bokra has secured venture capital and private equity licences byBetty Wangari
News NigeriaApril 23, 2026 Bfree Raises $3.1M to Turn Africa’s Bad Loans Into a Scalable Asset Class Lagos-based credit management startup Bfree has raised $3 byBolu Babalola
News NigeriaApril 23, 2026 Airtel Africa Foundation’s DigiLeap Targets 200 Women in Ikorodu. The Hard Part Comes After Graduation. Airtel Nigeria's Airtel Africa Foundation has launched DigiLeap Tech Drive, a byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsApril 23, 2026 Proparco Puts $17.25m Into Alterra Africa Fund at Final Close, Completing a DFI-Heavy Capital Stack France's Proparco has committed $17 byBolu Babalola
Africa News NigeriaApril 23, 2026 Kredete Spotlighted at Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator Demo Day as Its Stablecoin Card Goes Live Across 11 Markets Kredete has been spotlighted at the Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator Cohort 5 byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaApril 22, 2026 Google Picks 15 African AI Startups for Milestone Class 10 Accelerator Google has named 15 African startups to its milestone Class 10 accelerator byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsApril 20, 2026 Ghana’s New Investment Law: What Tech Founders Need to Know Ghana's parliament passed the Ghana Investment Promotion Authority Bill on March byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsApril 20, 2026 Adumo Data Breach Exposes Payment Source Code on Dark Web A threat actor is offering 15,546 files of Adumo's internal payment byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsApril 20, 2026 Ghana-Italy Cybersecurity Deal Targets 3,500 Incidents and Rising Ghana's national computer emergency response team logged 3,500 cyber incidents byFatima Oladunni
