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Attention Is the New Oil. In Africa, the Drilling Rights Are Still Up for Grabs Oil built fortunes by controlling something everyone needed but few could byFatima OladunniMay 12, 2026
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
Telcos Are Back — and African Startups Should Be Worried Africa's telcos — MTN, Airtel, Safaricom — are no longer sleeping byBolu BabalolaMay 11, 2026
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
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 23, 2026 Your February Funding Cheat Sheet: 13 Accelerators African Startups Can Still Apply To Before March From Tony Elumelu's $5K grants to Google's $350K cloud credits, here's every byFatima Oladunni
