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African K-12 scene forgot one thing: The parent is the product

A test of whether you can monetise the one thing parents won't outsource: themselves.

News

Terra Industries to build second drone factory in Ghana as demand grows across Africa

Terra Industries will build a 50,000-unit drone factory in Ghana, expanding Africa’s defense tech capacity amid rising demand for surveillance and counter-drone systems.

Consumer Tech

RAM shortage hits big tech hard, Apple to postphone new product release by months

Apple rolls back release of Macbook studio and Macbook Pro following global memory shortage

News

Starlink brings walk-in support to Nigeria through Konga retail stores

Starlink has introduced in-person customer support at Konga retail stores across Nigeria, addressing a key gap in its previously digital-only service model.

EdTech

3 survival models we learnt from AptLearn’s exit for the next wave of African Edtech

AptLearn’s shutdown highlights a deeper problem in African edtech. This analysis breaks down three proven survival models that could determine the next wave of winners.

News

Norrsken22 leads $5.8M seed for Lua to scale the first AI agent OS in Africa

A Paystack–Zephyr alumni team is betting that companies will soon manage AI agents like employees.

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MTN halts XtraTime service amid Nigeria’s new digital lending rules

MTN Nigeria has suspended its XtraTime service, citing compliance with new consumer lending regulations that now classify airtime credit as a loan product.

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Flutterwave hosts investor roundtable on Africa’s digital economy at IMF–World Bank meetings

Flutterwave brought together global investors and policymakers at the IMF–World Bank Spring Meetings to discuss infrastructure, regulation, and funding challenges in Africa’s digital economy.

News

This YouTube’s new feature lets you turn Shorts off completely

The New Zero Minutes Time Management Feature by YouTube lets you skip the Shorts Experience Entirely

AI

Gemma 4 E2B brings AI offline; that changes who gets access

The release of Gemma 4 E2B represents a structural pivot from AI-as-a-service to AI-as-a-local-asset.

Startups

Moniepoint, Flutterwave, LemFi, Moove, and Paga named in Endeavor’s 2026 outliers cohort

Five Nigerian companies were selected for Endeavor’s 2026 Outliers cohort, making up nearly half of Africa’s representatives in the global network of scaleups.

Features

This Uniport student built the audio version of Giphy and won $37k to scale it

A Uniport student built BickQR, an audio meme app for sharing viral sounds like GIFs. Now he’s won $37K to scale it.

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