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The Kenyan Boeing engineer who chose trucks over prestige
1+ hour, 16+ min ago (1020+ words) Charles Thuo's career journey makes very little sense, at least until you sit down with him. By his own admission, it did not make much sense to his parents either when he walked away from a stable career path in…...
AGL, REasy launch China-Cameroon shipping service for SMEs
6+ hour, 17+ min ago (392+ words) The Cameroonian arm of Africa Global Logistics (AGL), the logistics giant that operates port, rail, maritime, and freight services, has partnered with REasy, a trade finance platform, to launch a groupage shipping service for small businesses importing goods from China....
Rank Capital named 7th fastest-growing fintech in Africa by Financial Times
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (209+ words) Rank Capital, a proprietary investment platform providing professional wealth management and investment services, has been named the 7th fastest-growing financial technology company, the 6th in Nigeria and the 12th overall fastest-growing company in Africa on the Financial Times" annual "Africa"s Fastest Growing…...
Why Africa's next enterprise technology decade is a major opportunity for Layer3
1+ day, 48+ min ago (378+ words) For years, the narrative of Africa's tech ecosystem has been centered on funding milestones and rapid expansion. Success was frequently defined by how quickly a digital business could raise capital and acquire a massive user base. However, a more profound…...
Nairobi to phase out traffic police in $9. 1 million AI traffic plan
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (272+ words) On Nairobi roads, traffic police officers have long acted like human operating systems. This may soon change as government plans AI cameras....
Tech Cabal Daily " No space for Starlink in SA
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1206+ words) Elon Musk got a double whammy yesterday, at home and abroad. Open AI CEO Sam Altman testified against him in court, saying Musk wanted control of Open AI for himself and even floated passing it to his children. And back…...
How Sabi is digitising Africa's lithium trade, one ton at a time
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (494+ words) Every month, Nigerian B2 B digital commerce company Sabi facilitates the movement of more than 100, 000 tons of lithium...
Africhange Technologies Limited ranks 11th on FT's fastest-growing African companies list
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (383+ words) Africhange Technologies, the Canada-based remittance and cross-border payments company focused on African diaspora users, has ranked 11th on the Financial Times and Statista's Africa's Fastest-Growing Companies 2026 list, placing it among the continent's top-performing businesses by revenue growth. The annual ranking tracks…...
Africa's AI sovereignty problem is really an energy problem
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (563+ words) This article was first published on Tech Cabal Insights by Stephen Agwaibor None of this reveals anything new about Africa's infrastructure deficits. Nonetheless, it exposes the fraught nature of a strategy that relies heavily on the promises of global superpowers…...
How a Nigerian engineer helped build West Africa's no-code platform
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (495+ words) Written by: Emmanuel Okumuye The concept was groundbreaking particularly in the African region where technological and connectivity limitations, diverse business requirements, and other obstacles impeded the uptake of software among SMEs. However, the founders of Quabbly thought there was a…...