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When President Bola Tinubu announced the removal of Nigeria’s decades-old fuel subsidy in May 2023, the shockwaves were immediate and severe. Overnight, petrol prices surged from ₦185 ($0.36) to above ₦500 ($0.96) per litre, later climbing past ₦600 ($1.15). As households and businesses struggled with the inflationary fallout, the policy shift also reshaped the economics

The power brokers in Egypt’s startup scene shifted sharply in 2025. While Africa’s startup funding appeared to rebound, with $1.4 billion raised in H1 2025, up 78% from H1 2024, the recovery was narrow. Egypt emerged as a major beneficiary, raising over $339 million in H1, trailing only behind South Africa among the Big Four.

On December 17, 2025, Airtel Africa signed an agreement with SpaceX to introduce Starlink Direct-to-Cell satellite connectivity across Airtel Africa’s  14 markets, including Nigeria. The deal allows compatible 4G and 5G smartphones to connect directly to satellites when terrestrial networks are unavailable, without requiring satellite dishes or special consumer equipment. “This is something big that

Justice Eziefule is the co-founder of Metastable Labs and one of the builders behind Liquid, a decentralised lending protocol for prediction markets. His path into tech has been shaped by bold career pivots: from walking away from a hairdressing apprenticeship at 19 to taking an unpaid internship at OlotuSquare instead of a traditional corporate placement.

TGITEOTY. But this isn’t goodbye. ☀️️ Your favourite newsletter, TC Daily, is wrapping up for the year today. But not without a bang. We have spent the last twelve months tracking every move in the African tech ecosystem, and now we want to see how much of that story you actually digested. We created a

TC Daily’s year is officially Wrapped! 🎁 2025 was a marathon for the African tech ecosystem, and you were right there with us for every sprint. But beyond the headlines, how much of the story did you actually make your own? We’ve crunched the numbers on your year with TC Daily. Take this quiz to

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Building anything of value is hard anywhere in the world. In Africa, it is harder.  The Builders’ List recognises people doing it anyway. Beyond shipping products, Africa’s technology ecosystem constantly navigates unreliable power, fragmented logistics, weak public infrastructure, and regulatory uncertainty—often all at once. Progress is rarely linear, and success is usually hard-won.  Founders alone

On October 21, a UK Employment Tribunal dismissed in full the claims brought by Rosemary Hewat, a former executive at Nigerian neobank Kuda, rejecting allegations of gender discrimination, wrongful termination, and retaliation after a detailed review of the evidence, ending a dispute first reported by TechCabal in February 2025. The decision delivers a rare, definitive

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