Muktar Oladunmade

Nigerian creators may lose 5% of their income to tax if the government decides an ebook sale is a royalty. Here's why it matters.

Oui Capital would have returned twice the size of its first fund even without Moniepoint, but its general partner still thinks African VC needs a fix.

Askya Investment Partners is opening applications for a six-week programme for African AI startups, with a minimum commitment of $200,000 to at least one participant. Ten companies will take part, and none of them has to pay cash or give up equity to participate.

Ventures Platform, one of Africa's most active seed-stage venture capital firms, has closed its second institutional fund at $84 million, just $23 million short of the total raised by all six African venture funds that closed in 2025.

Intron has released Sahara v2.5, a set of voice AI models built for when Africans use multiple languages in one sentence.

But I think another question deserves equal urgency: Where should AI not be allowed to operate without a human being ultimately responsible?

Allawee, a Nigerian card-issuing fintech, will close its business and personal account services on December 1, 2026, after Paystack acquired the company in 2025 in a deal that was not publicly announced, according to emails sent to Allawee customers.

Alan, the French health insurance company, has acquired Tanel, a Dakar-based digital health startup operating in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire, for an undisclosed amount that marks its first move into Africa.

Uber spent twelve years learning from Africa, then left Nigeria and Uganda overnight for a driverless future.

Twenty-four Nigerian companies have raised $247 million from domestic capital markets through InfraCredit. PIDG says the model works and now needs scale.