African tech companies enjoyed their best funding year to date, according to an industry analyst. The African Tech Startups Funding Report, now in its fifth year, revealed that 311 firms on the…
Nigerian Logistics Tech Firm Kobo360 Raises $30m Funding
Kobo360, a Nigerian logistics startup, has won $30 million of funding, including $20m led by Goldman Sachs and $10m from compatriot commercial banks. The cash will allow the Lagos-based firm, which connects…


Tech Could Ease Some of Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe’s Biggest Problems – If the New Government Lets It
Last month Robert Mugabe was ousted as leader of Zimbabwe, bringing down 37 years of despotic rule. He was replaced by former ally Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has insisted what happened wasn’t a…


Will Sudan’s Sanctions Drop Finally Connect Its Entrepreneurs With The World?
It is almost a quarter-century since Omar al-Bashir appointed himself President of Sudan. In that same year, 1993, America deemed al-Bashir’s government a state sponsor of terror – a label it shares…


Cape Town is Battling its Nation’s Economic Woes to Become Africa’s Tech Capital
South Africa is suffering an economic crisis. Growth has slowed to 0.3%, its slowest since 2009, and unemployment is at a 14-year high of 27.7%. Manufacturing and agricultural job markets have shrunk.…


Payments, Bureaucracy and Brain Drains: Cairo Stands at a Startup Crossroads
When Willie Elamien first showed up in Cairo in 2014, the city’s startup scene was very different than it is now. There was hardly any government support. People rarely saw entrepreneurialism as…