This is Follow the Money, our weekly series that unpacks the earnings, business, and scaling strategies of African fintechs and financial institutions. A new edition drops every Monday.   In 2015, Moniepoint, then TeamApt, one of Nigeria’s most prominent fintechs, was building payment infrastructure for banks. By 2025, it was no longer a company in the

Google has collaborated with African universities and research institutions to launch WAXAL, an open-source speech database designed to support the development of voice-based artificial intelligence for African languages.  African institutions, including Makerere University in Uganda, the University of Ghana, Digital Umuganda in Rwanda, and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), participated in the data

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has warned the public against damaging currency banknotes, citing a rise in cash flower bouquets and ornamental displays that it says contravene the country’s Penal Code. In a notice on Monday, the CBK said it has observed a rise in the use of Kenya Shilling notes to create cash

Airtel Africa, one of the largest telecommunication companies on the continent, expanded its fibre network to more than 81,500 kilometres as of December 2025, reinforcing its drive to improve connectivity across its 14 markets, according to the company’s latest financial report.  The company added about 4,000 km of new fibre in the past nine months