In Durban, an open field at Sherwood Park has filled with people. Thousands of migrants, many of them Malawian, have left homes, jobs, and…
Piggyvest and Cowrywise, you’ve heard of both. Your friends use one or the other — sometimes both. You downloaded one, heard good things about…
In 2022, the founders of Sorted came across a $20 feature phone. Not a smartphone. Not a tablet. A basic handset that hundreds of…
After years of losses, restructuring, and skepticism about African e-commerce, Jumia’s latest numbers are giving investors something they have not seen in a long…
For years, accepting card payments usually meant dealing with chunky payment terminals sitting beside cash registers. Businesses needed separate hardware, banking setup processes, maintenance…
Across West Africa, crypto is already part of everyday financial behaviour for many young people. Freelancers use it to receive international payments. Cross-border traders…
Cape Verde has one of the world’s largest diaspora populations relative to its size, shaped by decades of migration as citizens left the island…
Millions of Africans use mobile money every day to send cash, pay bills, buy airtime, and move money across borders in seconds. The growth…
When Techpoint Africa published their investigation into Glovo and Chowdeck’s vendor onboarding process on 7 May 2026, the comment sections did something interesting. Alongside…
Digify Africa just opened applications for Cohort 8.0 of its Digify PRO Online programme. This is a completely free, self-paced course built for unemployed…
For a merchant in Dar es Salaam’s Kariakoo market, the hardest part of the job has never been finding customers. The real headache has…
Egypt used to be a place where global tech brands simply offloaded shipping containers full of finished products. That is changing fast. The country…
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