Technology
Investment in data centers emerged as one of Africa’s most important technology stories this week, reflecting growing demand for the infrastructure powering the continent’s digital economy.
Technology
A recent report by PwC highlighted that while several African markets are actively rolling out artificial intelligence pilots across sectors, there is still a major gap between experimentation and full-scale implementation.
Energy
The AFRICA ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE - 2026 themed “From Borders to Bridges” , have held conversations on this same matter. Whether the continent can connect its resources to its people, its markets to its industries, and its ambitions to implementation.
Technology
Fintech in Africa is expanding quickly, but the conversation is increasingly about what is needed to sustain that growth. That framing shaped discussions at the 3i Africa Fintech Summit in Accra, where regulators, investors, founders, and institutions met to assess the sector’s current direction.
Technology
Forty-six percent, that is the share of African adults who remain entirely outside the formal financial system. Set it alongside the headline numbers the $2 trillion in mobile money transactions, the 66% share of global mobile money value and what you get is not a success story.
Technology
A major artificial intelligence infrastructure project is under development near Johannesburg, where Cassava Technologies, in partnership with NVIDIA, is building what the companies describe as an “AI factory.”
Technology
African startups raised $705 million in the first quarter of the year, marking a 26.5% increase compared to the same period last year. The more important shift is structural, debt financing is increasingly competing with equity as founders look for ways to scale without excessive dilution.
Finance and Investment
Less than 30% of SMEs across the continent maintain digital financial records, not because the information does not exist, but because it remains scattered, unstructured, and largely invisible to machines.
Business
The overwhelming majority of capital raised by African startups over the past decade has been structured through holding companies domiciled outside of Africa. Typically, in Delaware, Mauritius, or the Cayman Islands. The innovation is African, but the architecture is not.
Technology
At the launch of Ghana's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy in Accra, President John Dramani Mahama announced the $250 million investment to establish a world-class AI computing center, alongside a $20 million commitment for a short-to-medium term implementation.
Technology
At recent gatherings where Africa's financial technology future has been debated, including the Africa Fintech Summit held in Washington D.C., one theme cut through the noise with unusual clarity: the continent is no longer building fintech as a sector. It is building fintech as infrastructure.
Technology
The GSMA has highlighted several African markets including Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda as priority markets in efforts to expand access to affordable 4G smartphones and reduce the continent’s digital usage gap.