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Market Report

African Battery Energy Storage 2026: The Missing Piece of the Renewables Puzzle

Battery energy storage is increasingly recognized as the technology that can unlock the full potential of African renewa...

Market Report

Embedded Finance in African B2B Marketplaces: The Pivot From Trucks to Transactions

Between 2020 and 2022, African B2B e-commerce startups raised over USD 400 million to digitize informal retail. By 2025,...

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African Language Learning Platforms 2026: French-English Bridging, Swahili, and the Local Language Gap

African language learning spans three distinct needs: bridging between colonial-era official languages (French to Englis...

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African Customs, Borders, and Trade Facilitation 2026: The Single Windows, the ASYCUDA Systems, and the Informal Sector Reality

African customs systems are the operational bottleneck that determines whether the continent's trade agreements produce ...

News

Nigeria's FCCPC Advances Digital Consumer Lending Rules Covering BNPL and Online Credit Providers

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has advanced its Digital, Electronic, Online, or Non-Traditio...

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African Hospital Information Systems and EMRs 2026: Helium Health's Saudi Arabia Expansion and the Digital Clinical Record

Hospital information systems and electronic medical records are the data infrastructure that modern healthcare depends o...

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African Agri-Fintech and Smallholder Finance 2026: Apollo, Pula, ThriveAgric, and the Bundled Service Revolution

African agri-fintech has become one of the most commercially promising sub-categories of African agritech, led by operat...

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Off-Grid Solar and Solar Home Systems in Africa 2026: The PAYG Sector at Maturity

Seven operators (Sun King, Zola Electric, M-KOPA, Bboxx, d.light, Engie Energy Access, and Lumos) account for approximat...

How-to Guide

How to Evaluate an African Fintech Acquisition Target as a Traditional Bank

African banks that want to acquire fintech capability face a specific set of diligence challenges that standard M&A play...

Case Study

Smile ID: Building Pan-African KYC Infrastructure From Scratch

Smile ID was founded in 2017 by Mark Straub and William Bares with a seemingly impossible goal: build a single identity ...

Market Report

Crypto and Stablecoins in Africa: Why Nigeria Leads the World in Grassroots Adoption

Sub-Saharan Africa received over USD 205 billion in on-chain crypto value between July 2024 and June 2025, a 52 percent ...

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African E-Mobility 2026: Spiro's 80,000 Electric Motorcycles, Battery Swap Networks, and the Boda-Boda Transformation

Africa has approximately 25 to 30 million motorcycles serving as the backbone of urban and peri-urban transport, with ne...