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University of Cape Town Becomes First in Africa to Offer Degree in Fintech

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has become the first university in Africa to offer a degree in Fintech, allowing students to develop the requisite skills and knowledge needed to embrace technological advancements in the financial services sector. According to Business...

Interview with Onyeka Akumah, co-founder & CEO of FarmCrowdy (Concluding part)

Read the beginning part of the interview HERE.   Most Startups sure have humble beginnings. Did you have to start yours from your room? We did have our humble beginnings. I had to keep a job to work on Farmcrowdy after work...

Three Nigerian Startups Accepted Into 500 Startups’ Batch 22 Cohort

500 startups’ has revealed the list of startups accepted into its Batch 22 cohort, and in the list are three Nigerian-led startups. The Nigerian startups represent the only black startups in the cohort. They include Mail Haven, Mobile Forms, and Fyodor Biotechnologies. MailHaven led by Kela Ivonye is a smart...

Fresible Helps You Stand Out in Noisy Competitive Business Environments

Fresible Company Limited is based in Nigeria, with interests in ICT, events management, publicity/advertisement, marketing and entertainment. The company was formed in 2008 by Fred Oyetayo. Over the course of the years, the company has grown in leap and...

Daktari Pap Links Farmers to Crop And Veterinary Aid for Their Farming Needs

Every day millions of poor farmers in Africa struggle to access better crop and veterinary care for their livestock and crops. Daktari Pap, founded by Samuel Munguti is a mobile, web and SMS technology platform linking farmers and agro...

This Nigerian Startup Wants To Be Your Personal Assistant

You know how challenging it can be to cope with a busy schedule. There are meetings, preparing documents, paying attention to social media when the need arises, following up and sending emails. This is why many busy professionals have...

Sote Hub wants to turn Kenyan high school students into business owners one county at a time

Sote ICT Program Since 2013, Sote ICT has been operating in Taita Taveta county where 12 schools have been part of the program. During those four years, the program has benefited 6,000 members from 12 ICT clubs that are supported...

MAXGo is Providing Lagosians with On-Demand Motorcycle Transportation Service

Commuting in Lagos has for long been a real challenge, and recently there's been a significant increase in the number of startups aiming to make this easier with eHailing services. While eHailing platforms such as Uber, GoMyWay, Taxify and...

Regexpress Launches to Ease the Process of Car Documents Renewal

Getting car documents is one very challenging task in Nigeria, and a number of people have gotten into the habit of plying the road without the required driver's license and other car particulars. But Regexpress has been launched to put...

UPDATE: M-PESA won’t be offline Saturday morning

As part of the transition of Safaricom from a telco to an enabler platform, the company has been working on new changes to its MPESA platform. These change will mark the third major update to the platform since transferring...

Supercar.ng Launches to Help You Provide All Your Car Needs

The auto industry in Nigeria is really large, and while people are carving out different niches for themselves in the industry, Supercar.ng decided to bring all services of the auto industry online, enabling Nigerians solve all car needs from...

Wesabi is Helping Nigerians Find Skilled Artisans in their Neighbourhood

Wesabi was launched by Murtala Sanni in July 2015 to help ease the process of searching for proper artisans and craftsmen, which is one very daunting and uncoordinated task in Nigeria. Through a website and a mobile app, Wesabi helps individuals...

South Africa’s EmptyTrips, an ‘Uber’ for cargo aims to go global to tackle the $8.1 trillion+ logistics industry

South Africa's  EmptyTrips, an open marketplace paired with smart algorithms to match demand and supply of cargo transport is using smart-mapped spaces to reduce wastage on moving vehicles to offer cost-savings and lower transport costs hence reducing the barriers...

Replacing the new Samsung Galaxy S8+’s screen will cost an arm and a leg.

The Samsung Galaxy S8 is an amazing device. It has a deservedly high price tag and that amount is even higher once you factor in the repairs you might need to do on it with time. Sure Samsung did...

Self-Delivery Van Expected by 2020

Years ago, no one would have thought that we would one day have a self-driven car, the most people thought about was perhaps an automatic car after the manual one of course. But with the recent developments in technology,...

Equity Bank opens its EazzyAPI to the public for third party applications

Every time some readers hear someone mention the term API  (application program interface), the think of sophisticated computer programming out of their reach, yet they use and experience APIs everyday of their lives! Some of them book their flight and...

Equity Bank unveils new Banking Services for Customers

The Equity Group has unveiled new digital services for its customers targeted at enabling its customers open new accounts in a more convenient way Customers will access the new services through a mobile app that will also let them pay...

Inukapap wins the Kenya round of Seedstars World

Inukapap won the Kenya round of Seedstars World and will represent the country at the Seedstars Summit in Switzerland to compete for up to USD 1 million in equity investment.  InukaPap, is a mobile platform that allows subscribers to...

Farmers Pride; Increasing Farm Productivity in Kenya

The majority of those living in both rural and urban areas rely on agriculture and livestock production for livelihood. Farmers rely on agro dealers for access to farm inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, veterinary drugs, animal feeds, mineral...

TECNO eyes Middle East & LatAm markets after a clear market share in Africa

Smartphone and feature phone brand, TECNO is aim to capture the Middle East and South American markets after a considerable success in Africa. TECNO says it has a dominant market share in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Cameroon and the...

Mobile health wallet M-TIBA hits 45,000 users | Plans for national roll out

Mobile health wallet M-TIBA which allows users to send, save and receive funds to access healthcare services using their mobile phones has signed up 45,000 people and 60 healthcare providers in Nairobi with a national roll out underway. Developed by CarePay, PharmAccess...

Healthcare Startup Aikio Corp declared winner of the Malian round of Seedstars World

Aikio Corp, a platform for medical laboratories to transmit medical test results to patients safely and confidentially online and by SMS was declared winner of Malian round of Seedstars World and will represent the country at the Seedstars Summit...

Africans Becoming Increasingly Distracted By Their Smart Phones in New Study

The Game of Phones Survey (you read Game of Thrones didn’t you?) created by the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) industry unit at Deloitte revealed that more than 33% of Africans glance at their phones every 5 minutes! More...

Kenya Re records 14% in Gross Premium at half year

Kenya Reinsurance Corporation has today morning held an investor briefing to present the 2016 half year financial results at the Hilton Hotel in Nairobi. The Corporation announced it’s financial results for the half year 2016 and attributed the outcomes to...

African-Focused Solar Systems Lender SunFinder Raises $15 million from OPIC to Power Africa

Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has invested $15 million in debt to SunFunder Inc. to provide financing to companies operating in developing countries that manufacture, distribute and install solar lighting and energy systems to switch people from kerosene and...

Orange Money & Ecobank in bank to mobile money deal in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Conakry & Niger

After launching a similar service in Mali and Cameroun in January and August 2015 respectively, Ecobank and Orange have extended the partnership to their customers in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea Conakry and Niger to further deepend financial inclusion in Africa. Thierry...

Motor vehicle buyers in Kenya to register & transfer vehicles online

NTSA is going beyond alcoblow by launching  Transport Integrated Management System (TIMS) to automate all its process into one online web portal expecting to save the government billions of shillings lost during the process as well as save time...

Alexander Forbes unveils an online platform for retirement scheme trustees

Financial services provider, Alexander Forbes has today unveiled eboard, an online tool for retirement scheme trustees and an enhanced online functionality for members of retirement benefits schemes are part of the firm’s new strategy to increase customer experience. Group chief...

Government’s mobile-based M-Akiba bond targeted at Mwananchi

During the 2015/16 Budget Speech, Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury, Henry Rotich said the Government had launched the M-Akiba bond, Kenya’s first mobile-based Treasury bond with a minimum investment level of Kshs. 3,000. M-Akiba was developed by NSE, Capital Markets Authority,...

Remembering One Africa Media’s Carey Eaton

12 months ago today, Carey Eaton, co-founder and CEO of One Africa Media passed away in Nairobi in the early hours of that fateful morning. At a prime age of 41, Carey was a dear to Nairobi's tech scene and...