AI in Africa

AI is making it easier to build games in Africa. Making money is still the hard part

AI is transforming African game development, but local studios must turn viral hits into sustainable businesses?

News

Local investors acquire South African travel tech platform LekkeSlaap

A consortium of local investors has acquired LekkeSlaap, a South African travel startup. The financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed.

Features

Inside Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola’s startup portfolio

Olugbenga Agboola’s Resilience17 portfolio spans fintech and startups in healthcare, defence, aviation, media and more across Africa.

Startups

Company behind viral Nigerian game Lagos Life raises $500k

Vatar, the company behind viral Nigerian browser game Lagos Life, has raised $500,000 in an angel round that values it at $10 million.

News

M-KOPA’s KilpiTek Oy acquisition brings its device-locking advantage in-house 

M-KOPA, a Pan-African pay-as-you-go financing company, acquired Finnish communications company KilpiTek Oy for $8 million in March 2026.

Consumer Tech

What Lagos Life Game Teaches us About Building Products That Go Viral and Make Money

Lagos Life game went viral by turning everyday Nigerian life into a product people wanted to play, share and pay for.

Mobility

Moove reportedly exits Nigeria after 6 years, offers ₦35B to customers

The move comes weeks after Uber ended its operations in Nigeria on September 2 after 12 years, a development that put Moove's original model under pressure.

Funding

NeoFleet Capital raises $4m pre-seed to fund taxi fleets across Africa and the Global South

Mobility fintech NeoFleet Capital has secured a $4 million pre-seed round to expand its taxi fleet financing model and build infrastructure.

African Markets

What if the 39.6M small businesses in Nigeria use AI

This programme launched to teach small and medium enterprise business owners how to use AI in their business

News

The 2027 Ranking of Nigeria’s Top Universities Is Out

Here are the top 20 universities in Nigeria and what the latest 2027 Times Higher Education ranking says about their performance.

Consumer Tech

How the Nigerian life simulator Lagos Life game works

See how Lagos Life let players work, earn money, rent homes and build virtual lives in Lagos.

Fintech

The CBN announced a fintech licence shake-up in 2026, the process began a year earlier

In January 2026, a CBN director, Yemi Solaja told the Committee of Heads of Banks' Operations conference in Lagos that institutions including Moniepoint MFB, OPay, and Kuda Bank had already been upgraded.