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 5 minute read
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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
Nigeria Brings Crypto Further Into Its Tax Net With New NRS Rules Nigeria's Revenue Service has released guidelines taxing crypto at nearly every byBolu BabalolaAugust 11, 2026
Nigeria’s Project BRIDGE Enters Execution Phase With Bridge OA Incorporation Nigeria has incorporated Bridge Open Access, the company tasked with delivering byFatima OladunniAugust 11, 2026
Africa NewsMarch 17, 2026 EIB Commits €40M to Speedinvest’s €200M Africa Fund: Why Vienna Becoming a New Fundraising Corridor Matters More Than the Money On March 16, 2026, EIB Global committed €40 million to Speedinvest's first byBetty Wangari
News NigeriaMarch 17, 2026 Nigeria’s iDICE Tech Fund Finally Lands With a $729K Startup Grant: Three Years, $618M Pledged, and the First Check Is ₦1 Billion for 100 Founders Three years after Nigeria launched one of Africa's most ambitious digital byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsMarch 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 Oladunni
Events News NigeriaMarch 4, 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 Oladunni
Editorial MoonsightsMarch 4, 2026 The Great 2026 Consolidation Wave: Why Africa’s Tech Ecosystem Is About to Birth Its First Super-Conglomerates 67 M&A deals closed in 2025—a 72% increase byBetty Wangari
Africa News StartupFebruary 26, 2026 Ghana’s Fido Just Raised $5.5M to Prove AI Can Underwrite Africa’s ‘Unbankable’ — Without a Credit Score in Sight With over 1 million customers, $500 million disbursed, and a proprietary AI byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 25, 2026 Spiro Just Raised $50M in Debt to Flood Africa With Electric Motorcycles. The Real Question: Can Battery Swaps Actually Scale? With 80,000 e-bikes deployed, 30 million battery swaps completed, and $230 byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 24, 2026 Morocco’s WafR Just Raised $4M to Turn 100,000 Corner Stores Into Digital Banks. Here’s Why That Actually Works With 20,000 neighborhood shops already processing mobile top-ups, bill payments, byBolu Babalola
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 23, 2026 Your February Funding Cheat Sheet: 13 Accelerators African Startups Can Still Apply To Before March From Tony Elumelu's $5K grants to Google's $350K cloud credits, here's every byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsFebruary 20, 2026 Nairobi’s Stock Exchange Is Finally Building a Tech Board. Can It Compete With Johannesburg — Or Will It Join Nigeria’s Zero-IPO Club? After decades as a home for banks, telcos, and brewers, the NSE is creating a byBetty Wangari
