MTN and Ant International Partner to Transform MoMo Into a Super App — Nigeria Goes First MTN Group Fintech and Ant International have signed a strategic partnership to byBetty WangariJune 10, 2026
CreditChek Raises $600K to Fix East Africa’s Broken Credit Data Stack Lagos-founded CreditChek has raised $600,000 to expand its credit data byFatima OladunniJune 10, 2026
MNT-Halan Hits $1.4bn Valuation as Egypt’s Biggest Bank Buys In Egypt's first fintech unicorn MNT-Halan has raised a new funding round led by Al byBolu BabalolaJune 10, 2026
Best Gadgets Solving Everyday Problems in Nigeria in 2026 Nigeria's most important consumer gadgets in 2026 are not status symbols — they byFatima OladunniJune 8, 2026
EditorialMay 26, 2026 Africa AI Regulation 2026: A Country-by-Country Map of Who’s Ahead and Who’s Stalling Sixteen of Africa's fifty-four countries have published national AI strategies byBetty Wangari
Editorial OpinionMay 21, 2026 Rwanda AI Hub Africa: Kigali’s Quiet Strategy to Own the Continent’s AI Agenda In February 2026, Anthropic signed its first African government deal — not with byBolu Babalola
Editorial OpinionMay 21, 2026 Africa Crypto Regulation 2026: What’s Legal, Licensed, and Still Grey Zone Eight African countries now have crypto-specific regulatory frameworks in force, byBetty Wangari
EditorialMay 21, 2026 Africa’s Data Center Boom: The $4.5 Billion Infrastructure Race Taking Shape Africa's data center construction market is racing toward $4 byBolu Babalola
EditorialMay 19, 2026 How Mobile Money Became Africa’s Crypto On-Ramp Mobile money didn't set out to be crypto's on-ramp in Africa byBetty Wangari
Editorial OpinionMay 19, 2026 The AU’s Continental AI Strategy: Bold on Paper, Fragile in Practice The African Union's continental AI strategy is strategically coherent and byBolu Babalola
Editorial FintechMay 12, 2026 Africa’s Next Fintech Wave: Lending, Wealth, and Embedded Finance Payments are no longer the prize byBetty Wangari
Editorial OpinionMay 12, 2026 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 Oladunni
Editorial OpinionMay 11, 2026 Niche Platforms Are Eating African Mass Media From the Inside The Lagos newspaper that once reached two million readers is printing fewer byBolu Babalola
Editorial OpinionMay 11, 2026 Telcos Are Back — and African Startups Should Be Worried Africa's telcos — MTN, Airtel, Safaricom — are no longer sleeping byBolu Babalola
