Movies made in Africa have been marked as significant exports for the continent, drawing the likes of Netflix to set up shop in countries like Nigeria and South Africa. With the release of a streaming app dubbed Accelerate Plus, the Nigerian digital entertainment company Accelerate TV has joined the list of companies streaming African content

Inflation in Ghana has been rising for the past 11 months, hitting 31.7% in July, up from 29.8% the previous month. This is the highest figure the West African country has recorded since November 2003,  as the continued slump of its currency, the cedi, increased the prices of imported goods like gasoline and cooking oil. 

Google Wallet, which recently rebranded from Google Pay, is now available in South Africa, the first African country that the service will support. Google Wallet is a mobile payment system that acts as a virtual wallet, allowing users to make payments and transfer money straight from their Android phones and smartwatches. The recent upgrade has

Across Morocco, from Casablanca, the country’s largest city and commercial hub, to the country’s capital city, Rabat, and Safi, a small port city on the Atlantic coast with a population of less than 400,000 people, patients are getting medical consultation via audio and video calls. The same thing is happening across 2 other neighboring Maghreb

Due to how quickly things change in the tech industry, you not only need to be up-to-date on the latest and greatest trends,  you must also equip yourself with in-demand skills. If you’re looking to learn the hottest tech skills that can help you earn in dollars in Nigeria,  just keep reading. With these skills

Global consumer internet group Prosus, which is majority-owned by South Africa internet group Naspers, has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the remaining 33.3% stake in iFood. iFood is a Brazilian online food delivery service with a market share of over 80% in Brazil’s food delivery sector. The stake will be

The Cape Town Stock Exchange (CTSE) has announced the closing of a $5 million oversubscribed funding round led by a new investor—Imvelo Ventures, a venture capital investment company founded by Capitec Bank and Empowerment Capital Investment Partners. Other participants in the round include existing CTSE investors Lebashe Investment Group, Pallidus Alternative Investments, Shaolin Investments Limited

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume of transactions, Binance, has announced that its users will now be able to deposit and withdraw the South African Rand (ZAR) to and from their Binance wallets.  According to Binance, this is meant to increase the adoption and mainstream accessibility of crypto in the region. Binance stated that

For most of 2022, founders globally have had one question: where are investors, and why aren’t they deploying funds into our brilliant startups? Some investors have blamed the funding winter on the economic recession, others have blamed excessive valuation of startups, and most have not quite blamed anything: they’re simply taking time to observe before

Mobile technology in Africa first shot to fame in the mid-2000s, quickly establishing dominance over the landline. In time, mobile technology and the mobile phone became the defacto way to do digital innovation in Africa. But this way—the mobile-only way—is strewn with perverse incentives and may have deeply negative consequences. In the past decade, telecommunications

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Editor’s Note Week 33, 2022 Read time: 5 minutes This week, we saw interesting developments, especially in the telecom, logistics, and mobility industries across Africa. The stories reminded me that the road won’t always be easy, but it’s really up to all of us (workers, companies, investors, and regulators) to stake our claim on Africa’s