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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 NewsFebruary 26, 2025 Entrepreneur Academy by 54 Collective Closes Its Doors After Years of Impact. The Entrepreneur Academy, an initiative by 54 Collective, is officially winding byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaApril 2, 2024 Nigerian startup Thepeer forced to shut down due to regulatory hurdles. Three years after securing nearly $2 byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsMarch 28, 2024 LetsChat, from TikTok’s Parent Company, Closes Shop in Africa. LetsChat, the ambitious instant messaging venture developed by ByteDance, the byBolu Babalola
Fintech NewsMarch 10, 2024 Flutterwave shuts down barter card service. African financial technology behemoth Flutterwave has announced it will be byBolu Babalola
News NigeriaFebruary 19, 2024 Flutterwave-owned Disha to shut down operations next month. Disha, the no-code platform designed for creatives and acquired by Flutterwave byBolu Babalola
News NigeriaJanuary 25, 2024 Nigerian Startup Cova, Aiding Investment Tracking, Shuts Down. Founded by ex-CEO and founder at Printivo, Olu’yomi Ojo, and Yomi Osamiluyi, the byFatima Oladunni
MoonsightsDecember 27, 2023 Funding Drought in Africa: 15 Startups That Could Not Weather The Storm in 2023 There is undoubtedly a turbulent phase unfolding in the tech world, marked by byMuhammed Mustapha
