From phones to fibre: How Africa’s hardware strategy quietly shifted in 2025
Africa’s relationship with technology underwent a structural shift in 2025. After decades as a net consumer of imported devices, networks and energy […]
Will Nigeria get its first AI data centre in 2026? The data says it is likely
Nigeria’s push to position itself as a serious player in the global digital economy is increasingly converging on a single piece of […]
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – South Africans are buying more cars
In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية Happy pre-TGIF. Francophone Weekly by TechCabal, our latest newsletter, will resume on […]
With US visa bond, the path to Silicon Valley just got steeper for African startups
From January 2026, founders, investors, executives, and freelancers from more than 20 African countries will face a new financial hurdle when trying […]
How Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti are building Africa’s overlooked digital powerhouses
Global attention has remained fixed on Kenya’s M-PESA and Nigeria’s fintech unicorns because they offer clean stories of scale. Yet, a quieter […]
Pesalink wants to be Kenya’s “digital payments rail.” Can it pull it off?
Sending money in Kenya is still more complicated than it looks. A payment that starts in a bank account often transfers through […]
Car washers in South Africa’s biggest cities can now receive instant digital payments
Street Wallet, a South African cashless payment fintech, has partnered with Plush Car Wash, a popular car care brand, to introduce digital […]
Lisk’s $15 million fund wants to find Web3 unicorns in emerging markets
Lisk, a Swiss blockchain platform founded in 2016, has launched a $15 million fund to back Web3 founders in Africa, Latin America, […]
Kenya’s eRITS system will track landlords who dodge rental taxes
Table of contents What is eRITS? Why KRA introduced eRITS How eRITS works for landlords Penalties for non-compliance with MRI obligations The […]
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – One Chpter closes, another opens
In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية Happy pre-TGIF. Stablecoin adoption is rising across Francophone Africa as businesses and […]
Pesalink eyes premium payments market with Cellulant integration
Pesalink, Kenya’s interbank money transfer platform, is linking its network with Cellulant, a pan-African fintech, through Tingg, its digital payments platform for […]
What developers, startups, and users will gain with Base and Solana bridge
On September 15, Base, the layer-2 (L2) blockchain owned by US crypto firm Coinbase, announced an open-source bridge that connects its network […]