Managing business finances in Africa typically involves using scattered tools: accounting and budgeting softwares, banking and payroll apps, multiple Excel sheets, separate email trails for financial tasks. These disconnected systems create inefficiencies and blindspots that make it difficult for businesses to monitor spending and stay in control of their finances. While most African fintechs have

All the software eating the world is built on zeroes and ones. The Binary by TechCabal is a weekly column about how technology collides with the complexity of everyday life, in good, bad and sometimes ugly ways. They’ll be told through human stories that reveal the systems behind them. Each edition will evolve in its

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Africa’s cultural and creative industries could contribute over $20 billion to GDP each year, yet only a fraction of that returns to creators due to weak business models and limited access to financing.  Sustainability in Africa’s creative industry isn’t just about profit. It’s about structure, endurance, strategic infrastructural investments, and the discipline to balance passion

Mogo Auto Ltd, a Kenyan buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) firm popular among gig workers, has been hit with a class action lawsuit over alleged predatory and unfair lending practices, a case that could have far-reaching implications for the country’s fast-growing asset financing market. Three borrowers — Caroline Nderitu, Wilson Mbogo Gikonyo, and Joseph Muraya Wangari — filed

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Nigerian 3D animator, Uchenna Gilbert Okiya’s journey into 3D animation and creative technology begins where stories of many African creatives do: found inspiration in local and accessible culture. An “’80s kid” fascinated by comics, cartoons, and reading, Okiya graduated to tinkering with computers in the late ’80s and early ’90s, drawing inspiration from the creative