In my short life on earth, I have started many businesses. In 2020, I was making face masks. One year later, I was convinced skincare was my calling, so I started making black soap. Now, that idea never made it off the ground because I never quite mastered the craft, but for a while, I

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Tayo Oviosu is transitioning from the day-to-day running of Paga Nigeria after 17 years and stepping into a new role as Group CEO in a major leadership reshuffle at one of Africa’s oldest fintechs. Opeyemi Oyinloye, the company’s general manager of business operations, will take over as Acting CEO of Paga Nigeria, pending the Central

Good morning. ☀️ Dear women in tech, you’ve been locked in since the start of the year; that’s good, but you also need some time to relax and enjoy yourself.  HERtitude, our sister publication Zikoko’s annual women-only party, is the one day of the year when women from all walks of life gather to have

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Rosanne Whalley has been investing in Africa for 17 years. In that time, she has done early-stage equity, growth-stage equity, debt, fund investments, and mezzanine structures across several African countries. She has seen what works and what does not.  She believes that the financial performance of Africa’s investment industry has been mixed, and most investors

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SirMapy and Co. decentralised autonomous organisation (SMC DAO), a community of crypto traders and investors that backs and builds Web3 products, has acquired Nigerian crypto startup Bread Africa in an undisclosed all-cash six-figure deal.  The deal adds to a growing list of acquisitions among local crypto startups and reflects the steady consolidation underway in Nigeria’s

Over a decade after it was first conceived as a flagship of Kenya’s industrial modernisation drive, a stalled tech hub in Nairobi has been handed a new contractor backed with fresh funding, continuing the delay of a key innovation pillar mooted in 2013.  The Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI) techno-centre, pitched as a

Damilola Jerugba describes his interest in building things as a fascination with how things work and come together. He said he taught himself how to code through Udemy courses and YouTube tutorials, and then went on to work as a software engineer at companies like Reddit, Moniepoint, and Busha. At Reddit, he worked on the

Telkom Kenya has fallen to the country’s fifth-largest mobile operator, down from third place just two years ago. Its subscriber base shrank to roughly 744,500 by December 2025, down from 1.34 million in December 2023, according to Communications Authority (CA) data. The decline marks one of the sharpest contractions among Kenyan operators over that period