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AI

Inside Dala’s playbook: How an African AI tool gained 85,000 users in 4 months

When a user prompts in Yoruba, the system uses the MCP to give the AI geographic and cultural context before it even starts thinking. 

Analysis

Why new Unilever-Google partnership is dangerous for startups

As Unilever builds a "digital backbone" with Google Cloud, it is constructing a barrier that could make smaller competitors functionally invisible to the AI assistants of tomorrow.

Explainer

How Kenya killed climate tech giant KOKO — and why

Despite signing a framework agreement with KOKO in 2024, the government ultimately withheld the LoA, sending a promising climate tech company into the grave.

Fintech

Why Capital One Paid $5 Billion for a Bujeti-like Finance Management Software

The Brex acquisition proves that financial infrastructure is now software. Africa shouldn't wait for permission to lead.

Opinion

How African founders can frame their stories for scale

Beyond just having a solid and quality product, you should also be thinking of the best possible ways to strategically frame your offering in a way that brings you the most value.

Opinion

Internal brand communications: culture, teams, and alignment

In Africa’s fast‑growing tech ecosystem, where startups face multidimensional challenges, the difference between success and failure often comes down to whether teams fight external battles together—or waste energy fighting each other.

Features

Why African Proptech needs to build infrastructure first before innovation

Monthly rent wasn’t the wrong idea. The mistake was treating rent like consumer lending without the infrastructure that makes trust and affordability verifiable.

Year in Review

How 17 tech leaders are thinking about 2026

As we round up 2025, here are their predictions of what the ecosystem will be in 2026.

Spotlight

How Daniel Benjamin built products that scaled across Africa’s fintech boom

Daniel Benjamin’s path into software engineering began long before job titles and fintech buzzwords. It started with spare parts, borrowed screens, and a quiet obsession with making things work.

Year in Review

Condia’s top 10 stories of 2025

A curated list of Condia’s top 10 stories of 2025, covering African startups, fintech, policy shifts, and investigations in the ecosystem.

Spotlight

How Funke Olasupo became one of Africa’s leading voices in technical documentation

Long before she started writing documentations at Rocket.Chat, Funke Olasupo was learning her way around computers in Port Harcourt. That curiosity turned into a career built on making complex software make sense.

Opinion

African startups are missing the brand communications advantage

How strategic communications builds what performance marketing cannot buy

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