Technology
Connectivity, cloud, fintech infrastructure and the builders wiring the continent.
- Technology & AI
A stock index just asked Africa's unicorns to consider staying home
The AT50 Index, a benchmark for Africa's most listing-ready private tech companies, activated on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange this week, reopening a question the continent's founders have mostly answered by leaving: New York or London, or home?
75d ago - Technology & AI
Africa's connectivity boom is being priced, built and owned somewhere else
A new industry analysis shows African mobile operators sinking $77 billion into networks by 2030 while satellite entrants like Starlink pay a fraction of local licence costs to compete for the same customers -- exposing an ownership gap in the continent's fastest-growing infrastructure story.
75d ago - Technology & AI
Nigeria's central bank gives fintechs until January to bring their data home
The CBN has ordered every bank, fintech, and payment operator in Nigeria to stop storing transaction data on foreign servers by 1 January 2027 -- a deadline that could force one of the country's biggest technology migrations.
78d ago - Technology & AI
Visa, M-Pesa and Onafriq Are Quietly Rebuilding the Pipes Under African Remittances
A live stablecoin settlement pilot in the DRC, launched July 6 by Visa, M-Pesa and Onafriq, aims to cut the roughly 8% average cost of cross-border African remittances by replacing correspondent-bank routing with dollar-pegged digital settlement.
79d ago - Technology & AI
A Lagos crypto-infrastructure startup just admitted its pricing was the product problem — not the tech
ForgeLayer scrapped its fixed monthly subscription for a 0.3%-per-transaction pay-as-you-go model, betting that cash-flow risk — not blockchain complexity — was the real barrier stopping African merchants from adopting crypto payment infrastructure.
79d ago - Technology & AI
Starlink Hits a Ceiling in Kenya — And This Time It's Charging a Deposit to Wait
Starlink has frozen new sign-ups across seven Kenyan counties, including the coastal hubs of Mombasa and Kwale, after demand outran its satellite capacity — and is now taking deposits to hold a place in line.
82d ago - Technology & AI
Vodacom closes its $2.1bn grab for Safaricom — and Africa's biggest mobile-money engine now answers to Johannesburg
Vodacom has completed the purchase that lifts it to 55% of Safaricom, folding M-Pesa and East Africa's most valuable company into its accounts. The real prize isn't the network — it's control of the continent's largest daily payments rail.
83d ago - Technology & AI
Amazon points its first African satellite gateway at Nairobi — and the real contest with Starlink starts on the ground
With 396 satellites now in orbit, Amazon has crossed the threshold to switch on its Leo broadband service — and it wants Kenya to host its first ground station on the continent, turning Nairobi into the anchor of a rivalry that will be decided by fibre and routing as much as by rockets.
83d ago
