The Man Who Beat Facebook in Spain Is Now Breaking Barriers in Silicon Valley How Adeyemi Ajao went from defeating Zuckerberg in a hard-fought social media byBolu BabalolaMarch 9, 2026
Rwanda Claimed It Became Africa’s First TikTok Monetization Market. Then the Government Said It Didn’t. The Real Story Is More Complicated When Bruce Melodie asked President Kagame to help unlock TikTok earnings at the byBetty WangariMarch 9, 2026
Moniepoint Lent ₦1 Trillion Using Payment Data as Gospel. Two Massive Defaults Just Exposed the Limits of Knowing Everything Except What Happens Next. Nigeria's fastest-growing fintech disbursed ₦1 trillion to 70,000 businesses in byBolu BabalolaMarch 6, 2026
Francophone Africa’s VC Awakening: How AfDB’s €6.5M Saviu Fund Is Shifting the Power Map West and Central For years, African VC has meant Lagos, Nairobi, and Cape Town byFatima OladunniMarch 6, 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
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
News Rest of the WorldNovember 20, 2025 Google Drops Gemini 3—And This Time, Search Gets It on Day One. Latest AI model launches with record benchmarks, agentic coding platform, and byBolu Babalola
Africa News StartupNovember 20, 2024 Google selects 6 South African startups for its Black Founders Accelerator. Six innovative South African startups have been selected to join the Google for byFausat Abiola
News NigeriaSeptember 10, 2024 Federal Government Launches N100 Million AI Fund to Boost Nigerian Startups. The Nigerian government has taken a significant step towards fostering byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsMay 24, 2024 Google launches “Umoja” the first Africa-Australia subsea cable connection. Today, Google announced plans to build a new fibre optic cable named Umoja, byMuhammed Mustapha
News NigeriaMay 8, 2024 Google and the African Union partner for #DiscoverMyAfrica, a month-long showcase of African ingenuity. The Office of the African Union Chairperson’s Youth Envoy and Google are excited byBolu Babalola
EventsApril 30, 2024 Google’s Startups AI Accelerator Africa program, Applications Now Open. Google on Monday announced that applications are now open for the 8th cohort of byMuhammed Mustapha
EventsApril 29, 2024 Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for Education, Applications Now Open. The Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for Education is a specialized byMuhammed Mustapha
News Rest of the WorldMarch 29, 2024 A Safer Online Experience: Google Removes Billions of Deceptive Ads In 2023, Google made a significant stride in ensuring the safety and integrity byMuhammed Mustapha
