After years of building software for clients, Confidence Emonena is tackling a problem he knows personally: earning money, spending it across several accounts, and struggling to explain what is left. There was a period when Dev Clinton was making good money and still finding his bank balance difficult to explain. He would get paid with a plan for what the …
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Africa’s tech startup ecosystem has come a long way from a handful of emerging hubs and early-stage companies. Today, startups across the continent are building businesses around payments, financial services, healthcare, energy, agriculture, commerce, logistics and artificial intelligence. But the story is more nuanced than the headlines suggest. African tech funding reached US$4.1 billion in 2025 across equity and …
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In Nigeria, online generosity has a familiar choreography. A creator announces a giveaway. The replies fill with phone numbers and bank details. Someone opens a spreadsheet. Someone else starts making transfers one by one. What is meant to feel generous can quickly become an administrative job. Mayowa Sunusi thinks that job should disappear. He is the technical founder behind Ridim, …
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For as long as he could remember, computers had always fascinated Eric Aprioku. However, when his parents enrolled him in a computer school, it was as if his fingers were cursed. “I seemed to have an unrequited relationship with hardware because I spoiled every single system I tried to fix.” He was close to giving up when he discovered Python …
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The Geek Circle The Voice of Africa’s Tech Community
