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
Enugu’s Quiet Tech Takeover: Can Nigeria’s Southeast Become the Continent’s Next Lagos or Nairobi? With 53,000 people at its tech festival, $50M in startup funding facilitated, byFatima OladunniMarch 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 BabalolaMarch 4, 2026
Africa News StartupJuly 2, 2025 Ghanaian Fintech Liquify Raises Oversubscribed $1.5M Seed Round to Bridge Africa’s $120B Trade Finance Gap. Ghanaian startup Liquify, a digital invoice finance platform designed for byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsJune 28, 2024 Egyptian banking-as-a-service startup Connect Money secures $8 million seed round. Egypt’s Connect Money, a banking-as-a-service fintech company specializing in byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMay 2, 2024 Ethiopia’s Kubik raises $1.9M to fight plastic waste. Ethiopian plastic waste upcycling startup Kubik has secured an additional $1 byBolu Babalola
