Small Business

Duniya Healthcare is digitising medicine supply chains to reach Zambia’s most remote clinics

In a remote part of Zambia, a heavily pregnant 17-year-old named Chipego arrived at a Catholic-run clinic in Monze District,…

2 months ago

This Mastercard-backed startup says it will be AfCFTA’s implementation engine

Despite Africa’s immense economic potential—a combined GDP exceeding $3 trillion and a population of over 1.4 billion—just 17% of its…

2 months ago

“It started as an embarrassment.”: Day 1-1000 of Advantage Health Africa

You can order hot jollof on Chowdeck and have it at your door before the steam fades. You can order…

3 months ago

Atsur is solving African art’s provenance problem with blockchain

Art—how we create, store, buy, and distribute it—has taken different forms across several centuries. In 2020, as a rare global…

3 months ago

Weeks after Copia’s collapse, co-founder, top executives quietly registered new startup

One month after Kenya’s Copia Global collapsed in May 2024 under the weight of operational debt and failure to raise…

3 months ago

M-KOPA lawsuit alleges racial disparity in employee equity, firm says claim is baseless

When M-KOPA Holdings, a UK-headquartered fintech with over five million users across five African markets, restructured its shareholding in 2019,…

3 months ago

The biggest fintech companies in Nigeria (2025)

Nigeria continues to dominate Africa’s fintech landscape in 2025, even as funding slows across much of the continent. In the…

3 months ago

Stitch acquires Efficacy Payments to become a direct card processor in South Africa

Stitch, the South Africa-based payments infrastructure company, has acquired Efficacy Payments, a digital payments startup with direct access to the…

3 months ago

Correction: WhatsApp AI bot Xara wants to make banking in Nigeria as easy as chatting

As mobile banking adoption surges across Nigeria, users demand faster and simpler ways to manage their money, without switching apps…

3 months ago

After processing $9.3 billion in Q1, Kuda relaunches remittance product for non-Nigerian users

Three years after shelving its initial cross-border remittance plans, Nigerian neobank Kuda Technologies has relaunched with a multi-currency wallet that…

3 months ago