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Oluniyi D. Ajao predominantly covers technology, with a focus on software and SaaS products, data & analytics, privacy & cybersecurity, as well as business and industry news in Africa. His coverage heavily features press releases and private sector announcements.
Given his heavy reliance on press releases and private sector announcements, he may be most responsive to pitches that include exclusive product launches or updates from tech companies operating in the African market. Additionally, providing expert commentary on technological advancements or trends specific to Africa could also be of interest to him.
Considering Oluniyi's focus on the African tech landscape, offering insights into internet connectivity improvements or challenges within the region might resonate well with his coverage interests.
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By: Oluniyi D. Ajao, Amina Filkins
Africa has the world’s highest rate of female entrepreneurship and a $49 billion gap in what those entrepreneurs can borrow. A programme announced this week tries to close a sliver of it through mobile money rather than banks.
By: Oluniyi D. Ajao, Petr Ganaj
Every announcement about African AI compute eventually runs into the same wall. The servers are procurable, the buildings are financeable, and the electricity to run them has to cross a grid that was not built for this.
The ribbon-cutting at NBO2 in Nairobi on 7 September 2026. Photo: Digital Realty
Python Cameroon’s national conference runs over three days in Yaounde, with UbuCon Cameroon co-located for the first time, organised with the Ubuntu Cameroon community. The Ubuntu side of the programme was still being finalised at the time of writing.
Escape is a one-day developer conference run by South African software house BBD, staged simultaneously in two cities, at movies@ Montecasino in Fourways, Johannesburg and Nu Metro Cavendish Square in Cape Town. An AI hackathon runs alongside it.
Cairo. EG-IX sits in Telecom Egypt s Regional Data Hub at Smart Village. Photo: Jasurbek Ruzmat via Pexels
ICASA brings the ITU, Ofcom, Kenya and the CSIR to Pretoria on 8 to 10 September to study its spectrum sandbox. The regulations have been draft since March 2025.
Ericsson tells tech.africa that Africa is roughly 70-75% of the 131 million users and $80bn a month on its fintech platform, and names Tmcel and MTN.
A free one-day community conference on data, AI and the Azure stack, held at Richfield College in Umhlanga just north of Durban. The programme includes GitHub Copilot Dev Days 2026. Registration had not opened at the time of writing and space is limited.
The fifth WordCamp Jinja gathers Uganda’s WordPress community at the Civil Service College on the Nile, under the theme Embrace Creative Currents on the Nile. Organisers expect around 400 attendees. Tickets are USD 10 general admission, payable by mobile money for African attendees.
