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Africa Tech Startup Ecosystem: From Idea to Funding, Growth & Scale

September 22, 2026

  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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Why Tosin Olugbenga gave up Ph.D to become a software engineer

January 21, 2026

Tosin Olugbenga grew up in Ekiti State, Nigeria, where academics were the pinnacle of success. It was only natural that after completing his first degree at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, he pursued a master’s degree in physics. His path seemed clear: get a PhD, become a lecturer, and join the ranks of the academics he admired, but the Nigerian …

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How resilience helped Mandy Basterman build a successful career in IT

December 3, 2025

If you traveled back in time to ask young Mandy Basterman what she wanted to become, she’d have said a lawyer. Mandy, who is now a VoIP/IT Technician, even started law classes at the university. But her studies came to an abrupt halt because of the high cost of legal education. Parting from her desired career path was extremely difficult, …

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Immaculata is designing clarity in Africa’s tech evolution

November 24, 2025

In the ever-evolving landscape of African technology, where innovation often outpaces structure, Immaculata Ojadi stands out as a rare kind of builder — one who merges business intelligence, human insight, and systems thinking into tools and solutions that actually work. A Senior Business Analyst at James Chase Consulting, UK, Immaculata has built her career around a simple but powerful belief: …

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