Semiloore Akoni is a growth and product marketing leader focused on consumer technology, fintech, and digital commerce across Africa. With over a decade of experience in marketing and more than seven years in tech, he has built and scaled products across marketplaces, payments, and platform ecosystems. His work centres on user acquisition, activation, and retention

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In partnership with Happy pre-TGIF. ☀️ If your week has been missing a little spark, it is probably because you have not seen Episode 11 of Headlines by TechCabal, our talk show where we break down the biggest stories shaping tech and business across Africa in a simple, direct way. Published on Saturday, the latest

Nigeria’s banking sector has wrapped up one of its biggest capital-raising exercises in recent history, with lenders pulling in a combined ₦4.65 trillion to meet new regulatory thresholds set by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The capital raise drew heavily from local investors, who accounted for 72.55% (₦3.37 trillion) of the total, while foreign investors

How we’re thinking about 2026 and beyond. Here’s the thing about two speeds. Over the last few years, the African tech ecosystem has been moving at a pace that feels almost contradictory: consolidation at the centre and new ideas flickering relentlessly at the edges. Capital tightened, regulation grew heavier. Scale began pooling around fewer, stronger

Ghana’s National Identification Authority (NIA), a statutory body mandated to establish a national identification system, has now added a digital wallet to the Ghana Card, the identification card used for services like SIM registration and passport applications. The new payments feature, first announced in September 2025, would allow users to make use of Automated Teller

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In a university hostel in Nairobi, a 19-year-old founder has assembled what he describes as a full-stack artificial intelligence company, featuring a large language model (LLM) trained on Kenyan dialects, a voice agent already handling customer queries at a savings and credit cooperative (SACCO), and a prompt tool aimed at everyday users. The company, Map

In the months before the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the world, Taslim Salaudeen, a Nigerian-based geospatial innovator, found himself confronting a difficult patch. After a string of failed ventures—Agromini, an agritech company founded in 2015, and Upnepa, an energy startup launched in 2017—he began to question whether entrepreneurship still held a future for him. The repeated

Kenya is moving to place strict limits on how cryptocurrency companies advertise their businesses, while also introducing fees that take a cut from activity across the sector. The changes would increase oversight of marketing and add new costs to crypto transactions. Kenya’s National Treasury has published the proposed framework under draft Virtual Asset Service Provider