Back when I was doing IT support, there was a running joke on the helpdesk: “one day they’ll replace us with a chatbot.” We said it half-laughing, half-nervously, usually right after resetting someone’s password for the third time that week. Nobody actually believed it. Then automation started eating the easy tickets password resets, software installs,…
Like Marché Ancien Troisième in Douala, Cameroon, Computer Village Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, has seen a lot of things. Grey market phones. Fake chargers sold as “original.” That one guy who can fix any laptop motherboard with a heat gun and pure faith, typical of Ancien Troisième. What it hasn’t seen much of, until now, is…
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 just put on the table in Beijing, and it tells you exactly how serious the country’s power crisis has gotten, and how far it’s willing to go to fix it….
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 African telecom. Vodacom Group has appointed Segun Ogunsanya, former Group CEO of Airtel Africa, as an independent non-executive director on its board, effective 9 October 2026. He replaces Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa,…
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 whether the institution you challenged happens to fund the platform documenting you? That’s not a hypothetical. It’s the exact fight playing out right now between a prominent African internet governance…
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 makes headlines when it fails. Morocco’s Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure, providing power and…
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 with a LinkedIn photo attached? We know the difference but this one’s got our attention. Cisco, one the world’s largest software networking manufacturer has appointed Ossama Eldeeb as…
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, she’s got a product people want. But she’s stuck: no smartphone budget, no digital literacy training nearby, and a banking system that doesn’t quite know what to do with her….
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 that house knows what to do with it? I’ve sat in enough digital transformation rollouts to know this pattern by heart. You spend months, sometimes years, getting…
In the quiet village of Bessi in Batibo Subdivision, a stream that has flowed for generations is now doing something extraordinary: it is generating electricity. Behind this remarkable achievement is Atud Jonathan Asaah, a Cameroonian renewable energy specialist whose vision has transformed a simple mountain stream into a functioning micro-hydropower plant capable of supplying electricity…
