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Africa Fintech & Banking Summit 2026 Heads to Nairobi Why Summits has released the agenda for the Africa Fintech & Banking Summit 2026 byBetty WangariAugust 14, 2026
Jumia Raises $50M as Equity Nearly Hits Zero, IFC Anchors Half Jumia has raised $50 million in new equity, split evenly between IFC and a group byFatima OladunniAugust 14, 2026
Africa’s Top 20 AI Figures in 2026 From Bosun Tijani's seat on the UN's new AI for Good Commission to Kate Kallot's byBetty WangariAugust 12, 2026
YouTube Just Made Monetisation Harder — African Creators Feel It First YouTube is doubling the watch-hour and Shorts-view thresholds required to join byBetty WangariAugust 11, 2026
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
EditorialMay 7, 2026 African Startups Going Global: The UK and US Expansion Playbooks That Are Actually Working African startups entering the UK and US are finding that success depends on byBolu Babalola
Editorial OpinionMay 7, 2026 Who Is Actually Making Money From AI in Africa? African AI is generating intense investor interest, accelerator activity, and byFatima Oladunni
Editorial OpinionMay 7, 2026 Second-Time Founders in Africa: Smarter, Faster, or Just Better at Pitching? Africa's first wave of venture-backed founders is building again byBetty Wangari
Editorial OpinionMay 7, 2026 Africa’s New VC Funds Are Quiet When Early-Stage Founders Need Them Most Africa's new VC funds closed to fanfare in 2023 and 2024 byBolu Babalola