Technology

Africa's builders, breakthroughs, and the platforms remaking work

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

A Lagos lab just trained a 70B-parameter African-language model. The world is paying attention.

50+ languages. Open weights. Half the cost of comparable US efforts. Inside the team that quietly out-shipped Silicon Valley on inclusion.

Tunde Abiodun · 3h · 11 min read

AI & Machine Learning

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RESEARCH

African-language benchmark dataset crosses 100M sentence pairs

Tunde Abiodun · 2h

PRODUCT

WAJ launches AI summary tool for newsroom-grade research

In-house team · 3h

COMPUTE

Pan-African GPU consortium secures access to 4,000 H100s

Kofi Mensah · 5h

OPINION

Why Africa must lead AI governance — not follow it

Nkechi Osei · 6h

Fintech

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PAYMENTS

Stablecoin corridors quietly carry $40B in cross-border B2B flow

Chinedu Eze · 3h

LENDING

Embedded credit on agent networks reaches 12M new MSMEs

Grace Mwangi · 4h

WALLETS

Opay's user base crosses 50M as Lagos remains its growth engine

Tunde Abiodun · 6h

REGULATION

Central banks signal coordinated PSP licensing framework

Amina Touré · 8h

Startups & Capital

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FUNDING

Q1 venture funding to Africa rebounds 38% YoY to $1.8B

David Ochieng · 1h

PROFILE

Inside the founder swap powering Nairobi's quiet edtech boom

Grace Mwangi · 4h

EXIT

Paystack alums return as angels, recycling capital into 30 deals

Tunde Abiodun · 7h

DIASPORA

Lagos-to-London tech migration is reversing — slowly

Adaeze Obi-Fernandez · 9h

Connectivity & Cloud

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INFRA

2Africa subsea cable lights up final Atlantic landings

Amina Touré · 3h

DATA CENTERS

Nairobi crosses 30MW of installed colocation capacity

David Ochieng · 5h

MTN's 5G covers 60 cities; pricing remains the bottleneck

Kofi Mensah · 7h

DEVICES

Smartphone penetration crosses 51% across the continent

Grace Mwangi · 9h