Chipper Cash, an African fintech that offers consumer payments, cross-border transfers, and US dollar virtual cards, stopped burning cash in the final quarter of 2025, generating enough operating revenue to cover its day-to-day expenses. The milestone comes after years of restructuring and a sharp reset in fintech funding, underscoring the growing importance of cash discipline

In 2002, Ugi Augustine, then a laboratory prefect at the West African Peoples Institute in Calabar, Cross River State, Southern Nigeria, stood beside a visiting MTN technician. The telecoms employee had come to the school for computer laboratory maintenance. But for Augustine, that encounter was his first brush with technology.  “I got inquisitive, asking questions

The Teaching Innovation Lab (TIL), led by education innovation firm Elimu-Soko with support from the Gates Foundation, has opened a funding call inviting innovators to design and test low-cost, scalable solutions to improve foundational literacy teaching in African public schools.  The programme is offering grants of up to $150,000 for organisations operating in Ghana, Nigeria

The narrative surrounding African venture capital has been defined by a disparity of female founders receiving only a fraction of the funding secured by their male counterparts.  Per data from TechCabal Insights, women-led startups raised $48 million in funding in 2024, compared to over $2 billion by their male peers, and only 10% of female-founded

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On a Tuesday morning in December 2025, I left my house in a rush to travel from Agbara in Ogun State to Surulere, Lagos. Somewhere between locking my home door and boarding a bus, I forgot the one thing I should never forget:  my white cane. To most people, a white cane is just a

Nigeria’s economy is expected to grow by 4.4% in 2026, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  If achieved, it would mark the country’s fastest annual growth rate in over a decade (outside the 5% growth recorded in Q2, 2021) and reinforce optimism that Africa’s most populous country may be turning a corner. Startups do

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The transition to a net-zero economy, which balances the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere with those removed from it, is often told as a story of Western policy and technology. But the sharper test is unfolding far from the West. Across Africa, Latin America, and much of Asia, countries that will account for most