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Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:32:39 +0000

I installed both of these at the Same Hotel, but here's which WiFi Antenna Actually Won When installing wireless networks for hotels, offices, homes and other client environments, there is rarely a single wireless device that can do […]

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Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:26:13 +0000

Nigeria's grey market problem just got a real competitor, as ASUS just opened a flagship store in Computer Village. Like Marché Ancien Troisième in Douala, Cameroon, Computer Village Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, has seen a lot of things. Grey market phones. Fake c […]

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Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:35:39 +0000

Tesla just gave its Robotaxis a backup plan for when Cell Towers fail What happens to a self-driving car when it loses signal in the middle of a ride? Tesla just answered that question by putting a satellite dish on the […]

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Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:36:39 +0000

South Africa just put a R2.2 Trillion Price tag on its Energy future, and China bids for it. R2.2 trillion. That’s not a typo, and it’s not a number South Africa throws around lightly. That’s the size of the investment pipeline South Africa […]

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Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:36:32 +0000

Vodacom just put its biggest rival's former CEO on its Board. But here's Interesting part. Imagine losing a market share war to a competitor for years, then hiring their general the moment he retires. That’s essentially what just happened in […]

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Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:18:03 +0000

Nigeria built Africa's biggest Refinery and it still can't get enough crude to run it There’s a special kind of irony in owning the biggest oil refinery on the continent and still not getting enough oil. That’s Nigeria’s problem right […]

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Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:45:13 +0000

Egypt's Smart Card push follows a familiar African Playbook, And its familiar risks. Picture this One card. Your food subsidy, your ID verification, your civic services all funneled through a single digital channel. Sounds efficient. […]

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Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:09:54 +0000

Spotify's new AI badge won't save African Artists from ghost musicians There’s a band called The Velvet Sundown. They racked up hundreds of thousands of listeners on Spotify last year. Nobody could find a single member […]

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Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:32:03 +0000

South Africa's Shoestring Space program just beat Italy and Russia to a lunar payload slot Three metal spheres, hand-assembled by South African and Algerian students, tested by volunteers, funded on what one NASA scientist openly called a […]

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Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:44:11 +0000

South Africa just built the AI misinformation tool English-only platforms never bothered with South Africa has 12 official languages. Its misinformation detection tools have one working one: English. That’s not an insult to the engineers who […]

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Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:56:50 +0000

Africa's Mobile Money boom may be a sitting duck for Malware as a Service Kits like flying Eagle Imagine you get a message. It looks official. It says your local public safety office now has a slick new app “one-stop” service, no more queuing at […]

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Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:45:54 +0000

Knowlix AI, another Foreign SaaS, just landed in 29 African countries. Will it survive contact with reality There’s a graveyard of foreign software platforms in Africa. Not the dramatic kind with tombstones, the quiet kind, where the app just stops getting […]

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Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:33:31 +0000

ICANN Wiki. Africa's Fight over who controls digital memory leaves reasons why every African Tech Founder needs to own their own history before AI does There’s a question that should keep every African tech founder up at night: what happens when the record of your life’s work depends entirely on […]

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Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:42:11 +0000

Morocco just signed a deal with a company nobody outside IT knows, and that's exactly the Point If you’ve never heard of Vertiv, you’ve still depended on them every single day without knowing it. That’s how critical infrastructure works; it only […]

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Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:18:00 +0000

AfDB backs Ethiopia's Energy-agriculture Mini-Grids with a model everyone should be watching Two million dollars sounds small until you realise what it’s actually buying: proof that a business model works. And in rural electrification, proof […]

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Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:51:30 +0000

Cisco's Appointment of Ossama Eldeeb as Africa MD, signals for AI-ready infrastructure, not just a staffing move Every time a global tech giant makes an executive appointment in Africa, I ask myself one question: is this a real commitment, or just a press release […]

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Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:39 +0000

Joburg's new Smart City deal with Cisco sounds Great; its last one sounded Great too Johannesburg has become the third city worldwide, and the only one in Africa, selected for Cisco’s global 40 Communities initiative, a 10-year […]

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Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:24:15 +0000

Africa's AI Sovereignty Bet: What Cassava finally delivered after the AI factory hype? Sixteen months ago, Cassava stood up and made a bold promise: Africa’s first AI factory, built on NVIDIA supercomputers, keeping AI training and data […]

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Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:09:35 +0000

Cassava just gave Johannesburg Africa's first real Cloud Redundancy play, and here's why that matters There’s a specific kind of dread every network engineer knows: the moment a single point of failure in your architecture finally gets found, usually […]

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Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:10:02 +0000

Inside the UN's four-Country bet on African women's Digital Entrepreneurship Picture this: a woman living in the rural parts of the Republic of Congo builds a small business selling goods online. She’s smart, she’s driven, […]

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Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:30:44 +0000

Telkom admits it: South Africa's digital divide was never just about coverage There’s a question nobody at Telkom or even most Telecom providers may want to answer out loud: what’s the point of fibre to every house if nobody in […]

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Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:10:47 +0000

BYD's new Shark 6 performance has the numbers to scare the Hilux, but not the price tag South Africa’s BYD dealerships just got a new flagship bakkie, and it’s the kind of spec sheet that makes even diesel loyalists pause mid-sentence. […]

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Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:41:00 +0000

What Gigbanc's shutdown teaches African Founders about building businesses, not just raising rounds Gigbanc, a Nigerian fintech that built cross-border payment services for freelancers, creators, remote workers and businesses, is shutting down after […]

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Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:38:11 +0000

A South African Startup Just gave AI a longer memory than Claude or Gemini, but the real story is what it costs to run Refiant, a South African AI startup, just launched Protea, a family of language models that can hold up to 10 million tokens in a single prompt. […]

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Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:46:00 +0000

Why Rwanda's AI agency might beat Google's Accra lab at its own game Three countries, three completely different bets on how to win the AI race in Africa. Ghana said, “Come build here, Google.” Kenya said, “We’ll […]

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Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:21:12 +0000

Founder Stories Building Power from the Mountains: How Atud Jonathan Asaah is Bringing Micro Hydropower to Rural Cameroon For years, reliable electricity has remained out of reach for many rural communities across Cameroon. While many see this as an enduring challenge, […]

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Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:29:56 +0000

From scrap metal to sustainable power: This is how Cameroonian Engineer Atud Jonathan Asaah is bringing Clean energy to rural communities In the quiet village of Bessi in Batibo Subdivision, a stream that has flowed for generations is now doing something extraordinary: it is generating […]

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Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:36:42 +0000

Google's Accra AI Lab exposes the real reason African AI Startups keep failing Google announced its opening of Africa’s first Applied AI Lab in Accra, Ghana, giving selected startup founders access to Google’s AI models, […]

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Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:42:39 +0000

The new WhatsApp CEO didn't come from Silicon Valley. He came from constraint: A lesson for African Entrepreneurs Kunal Shah, the Indian entrepreneur who built CRED into one of the country’s most important fintech platforms, has stepped down as CEO of the company […]

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Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:12:56 +0000

Morocco just beat South Africa at its own game, and it appears nobody's talking about it The Automotive industry in Africa is evolving. Quick fact to sit with for a second: in 2025, Morocco built more passenger cars than South Africa did, […]

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Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:45:47 +0000

Africa owns the minerals behind every smartphone. So, why can't it build one? There’s a question that should keep African policymakers up at night: how does a continent sitting on more than half the world’s cobalt and nearly all […]

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Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:56:02 +0000

The Smart home myths: Your house doesn't need this There’s a particular look people give me in the consultation room. It’s the look of someone who just found out they don’t need to demolish their house […]

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Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:55:27 +0000

EACOP faces London Court by four farmers: Can a UK Lawsuit really stop a Ugandan pipeline? Four Ugandan farmers have filed a case at the High Court in London against EACOP Ltd, the UK-registered company behind the East African Crude Oil […]

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Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:08:32 +0000

America's 5G just failed its AI Report Card. The new Metric will decide Africa's AI future Ookla just ran the numbers on 86 mobile networks across 22 countries and found that even the mighty United States, with its shiny 5G towers and […]

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Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:01:15 +0000

EV batteries are outlasting industry predictions, but African buyers face a different reality New data from a Wall Street Journal report says EV batteries are ageing way better than the industry predicted degradation rates that used to justify […]

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Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:21:10 +0000

Libya just found more oil, but here is what these new oil discoveries really say about African upstream risk Libya’s National Oil Corporation just announced three fresh oil and gas finds one offshore with Italy’s Eni in Block D, one onshore in the Murzuq […]

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Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:14:10 +0000

5 Portable Power stations for African Entrepreneurs worth your money in 2026 In a previous article, I wrote about the five best power banks that could survive Africa’s grid. You can check the article via this link […]

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Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:24:17 +0000

Blackout-proof your hustle with 5 power banks tough enough to survive Africa's grid (And the World Cup) Honestly, since the World Cup kick-started, I’ve missed a lot of matches, and I imagine that it’s the same story with hundreds and thousands within my […]

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Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:42:06 +0000

Malawi cut child deaths by half, using AI that works like a Network monitoring dashboard Malawi has cut pediatric mortality in some hospitals by 40-51% simply by giving nurses an AI system that predicts when a child’s condition is about to […]

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Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:13:16 +0000

DRC just turned the Congo river into a $1.5B Data Highway, and it's the smartest infrastructure move nobody's talking about The DRC’s government has signed a $1.5 billion memorandum of understanding with China’s Genew Technologies to lay 1,700km of fibre-optic cable along […]

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Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:33:43 +0000

Africa is building vaccine factories, but finding someone to actually buy the Vaccines is the hard part Let’s begin with an aside; you noticed your community doesn’t have provision stores, and there are a lot of inconveniences you’ve noticed because […]

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Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:12:52 +0000

Anthropic got caught spying on its own users and called it an experiment A developer reverse-engineering Anthropic’s Claude Code tool stumbled upon something not in any release notes, changelog, or terms of service: hidden […]

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Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:24:01 +0000

India is knocking on Africa's door with Solar Panels and Satellite Tech. Will Africa answer with more than just cobalt? Diplomats and policy experts gathered in New Delhi this week with a message for Africa and India: the global order is shifting, the old boys’ club at […]

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Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:42:10 +0000

The World's Bankers just pulled the fire Alarm on the AI Boom, and here's why Africa should be concerned As read from Reuters, the Bank for International Settlements, basically the central bank for all the world’s central banks, the adult supervision of […]

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Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:09:08 +0000

Rwanda just fired Tanzania as its fuel supplier, and Kenya's pipeline is the real winner Rwanda just did something landlocked countries rarely get to do: it picked a supplier. Not begged for one, not settled for whichever port answered the […]

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Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:17:42 +0000

After One Hack, 9000 schools, Africa's EdTech boom may just be a Cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen Cybercriminals have upgraded their strategy in the education sector. Instead of attacking one school at a time, they have figured out that it is far […]

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Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:19:19 +0000

Africa is literally on fire. $54 Billion worth of gas went up in Flames while 565 million people had no power Every night across the Niger Delta, the sky glows orange not from city lights, but from gas being set on fire at oil fields because nobody bothered to […]

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Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:41:09 +0000

Africa's oil paradox: rich in crude, broke in strategy. The 2026 market shock that should change everything The global crude oil market is going through one of its most dramatic rollercoaster rides in recorded history. Prices spiked to near $150 a barrel […]

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Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:00:57 +0000

9 Cars with only a limited production number in the world, Numbers 1,2,3 and 8 exist as only one ever produced in the world Every business is geared towards making a profit. This is why companies produce a massive amount of products for public consumption, but when […]

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Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:46:02 +0000

Data Integrity: How to know if your data has been manipulated, corrupted, or compromised? I wrote this article several years ago, and given the rise in information security malpractices, I thought it wise to refurbish it with a few updates. […]