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    The Kenyan Boeing engineer who chose trucks over prestige

    Adonijah Ndege
    15th May, 2026
  • Trazo built a food delivery business in smaller cities. Now it wants to enter Lagos.
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    Trazo built a food delivery business in smaller cities. Now it wants to enter Lagos.

    Emmanuel Nwosu
    15th May, 2026
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    Kenya plans 16% VAT on electric vehicles, batteries, e-bikes imports

    Kenn Abuya
    14th May, 2026
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    Nairobi’s traffic police may soon give way to AI

    Adonijah Ndege
    14th May, 2026
  • How to fix Samsung One UI 8.5 problems
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    How to fix Samsung One UI 8.5 problems

    Chukwuebuka Mgbojikwe
    15th May, 2026
  • Africa has seen oil shocks before. Why 2026 could be the turning point for clean energy
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    Africa has seen oil shocks before. Why 2026 could be the turning point for clean energy

    Adedayo Ojo
    15th May, 2026
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    Samsung phones that lost software support in May 2026

    Chukwuebuka Mgbojikwe
    15th May, 2026
  • AGL taps REasy to launch China-Cameroon shipping service for SMEs
    Startups

    AGL taps REasy to launch China-Cameroon shipping service for SMEs

    Opeyemi Kareem
    15th May, 2026
  • 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Jumia plans job cuts
    Newsletters, TC Daily

    👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Jumia plans job cuts

    Opeyemi Kareem
    15th May, 2026
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    Quick Fire 🔥 with Babatunde Onadipe

    Opeyemi Kareem
    15th May, 2026

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    The designer behind $500M+ in transactions: How UX decisions helped shape Cudium’s cross-border fintech growth

    Partner
    15th May, 2026
  • Why digital infrastructure is critical to Africa’s energy sector
    Partner, Press Room

    Why digital infrastructure is critical to Africa’s energy sector

    Partner
    15th May, 2026
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    The Netflix Effect

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    15th May, 2026
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    Termii ranks #1 again in FT’s fastest-growing companies in media and telecoms

    Partner
    15th May, 2026
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    Top legal consultants for payment service licensing in Africa: What to look for

    Partner
    14th May, 2026
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    Gramvoice: A Nigerian global telecom startup

    Partner
    14th May, 2026

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    Startups

    Techstars-backed fintech Chimoney shuts down, to refund customer balances

    Emmanuel Nwosu
    May 13, 2026
  • AGL taps REasy to launch China-Cameroon shipping service for SMEs
    Startups

    AGL taps REasy to launch China-Cameroon shipping service for SMEs

    Opeyemi Kareem
    15th May, 2026
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    Opeyemi Kareem
    5th May, 2026
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    Stitch enters South Africa’s BNPL market with merchant-first model

    Opeyemi Kareem
    4th May, 2026

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    Temitayo Jaiyeola
    3rd Apr, 2026
  • Regulatory Passporting and the Future of Cross-Border Fintech in Africa
    FinTech

    Regulatory Passporting and the Future of Cross-Border Fintech in Africa

    Adedayo Ojo
    3rd Apr, 2026
  • Scale partners with Mastercard to simplify card issuance across five African markets
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    Scale partners with Mastercard to simplify card issuance across five African markets

    Sakhile Dube
    26th Mar, 2026
  • Happy Pay raises $5 million to scale ad-supported BNPL across South Africa
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    Happy Pay raises $5 million to scale ad-supported BNPL across South Africa

    Sakhile Dube
    23rd Mar, 2026

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    Temitayo Jaiyeola
    6th May, 2026
  • Bank of Namibia sets June 2026 rollout for instant payment system
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    John Adoyi
    31st Mar, 2026
  • Kenya’s I&M Bank hits 98% digital usage as growth shifts to revenue per user
    Banking

    Kenya’s I&M Bank hits 98% digital usage as growth shifts to revenue per user

    Kenn Abuya
    25th Mar, 2026
  • 11 billion transactions and 26% exclusion: The infrastructure gap the CBN wants to close
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    11 billion transactions and 26% exclusion: The infrastructure gap the CBN wants to close

    Adedayo Ojo
    13th Mar, 2026

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    NGX nearly doubles profit as transaction fee income climbs 189%

    Temitayo Jaiyeola
    1st May, 2026
  • Kenswitch taps Visa as Kenya’s national payments switch race heats up
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    Kenswitch taps Visa as Kenya’s national payments switch race heats up

    Adonijah Ndege
    3rd Apr, 2026
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    eTranzact beats Q4 revenue forecast but misses 2025 profit target

    Temitayo Jaiyeola
    5th Feb, 2026
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    eTranzact targets ₦4.28bn profit in 2025 as it shifts away from airtime sales

    Temitayo Jaiyeola
    31st Oct, 2025

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    Inside the spam call machine behind Nigeria’s digital lending boom

    Fancy Goodman
    29th Apr, 2026
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    This startup is building an ‘intelligence layer’ for Nigeria’s power grid

    Frank Eleanya
    9th Apr, 2026
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    How a startup built Nigeria’s  digital map in nine months

    Frank Eleanya
    31st Mar, 2026
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    Godfrey George
    31st Mar, 2026

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    Francophone Weekly, Newsletters

    Amaya wants to become the operating system for African agriculture

    Lina Kacyem
    12th May, 2026
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    Newsletters, TC Daily

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    Opeyemi Kareem
    15th May, 2026
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    👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – No space for Starlink in SA

    Opeyemi Kareem
    14th May, 2026
  • Next Wave: Kenya has conquered mobile money. Now it must fix the system underneath
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    Next Wave: Kenya has conquered mobile money. Now it must fix the system underneath

    Adonijah Ndege
    13th May, 2026

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    Namibia-based firm to back early-stage Southern African startups with $10 million fund

    John Adoyi
    6th May, 2026
  • OmniRetail, M-KOPA, Sabi, TymeBank make FT’s Africa fastest-growing companies list
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    OmniRetail, M-KOPA, Sabi, TymeBank make FT’s Africa fastest-growing companies list

    Opeyemi Kareem
    12th May, 2026
  • Village Capital backs two Ghanaian startups with $350,000 from latest fund
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    Village Capital backs two Ghanaian startups with $350,000 from latest fund

    Opeyemi Kareem
    6th May, 2026
  • OmniRetail launches new platform to digitise FMCG distribution and financing
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    OmniRetail launches new platform to digitise FMCG distribution and financing

    Opeyemi Kareem
    5th May, 2026

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TC Insights

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    217+ startups, ₦11B fraud, and $3B valuations: Insights from the 2025 Nigeria Payments Report

    TechCabal Insights
    20th May, 2025
  • Africa has seen oil shocks before. Why 2026 could be the turning point for clean energy
    TC Insights

    Africa has seen oil shocks before. Why 2026 could be the turning point for clean energy

    Adedayo Ojo
    15th May, 2026
  • Africa’s AI sovereignty problem is really an energy problem
    Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, TC Insights

    Africa’s AI sovereignty problem is really an energy problem

    Stephen Agwaibor
    13th May, 2026
  • Will H1 2026 cross the $1B mark? Funding hits $887M despite deal slump
    TC Insights

    Will H1 2026 cross the $1B mark? Funding hits $887M despite deal slump

    TechCabal Insights
    7th May, 2026

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