She asked me to give her a symptom, something ordinary and real. I mentioned a small issue that had lingered…
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Twiga Foods, a Kenyan B2B startup, has been ordered to pay a former sales representative over KES 1 million ($7,800)…
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The systemic bias in global hiring did not dawn on Obinna Umeh until he’d lost 17 freelance contracts on Upwork…
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In 2015, Watu Credit co-founder Andris Kaneps physically transferred a small cash loan to a women’s group in Kenya’s coastal…
After over a decade of investment and expansion across Africa, M-KOPA has finally turned a profit. The Nairobi-based asset-financing startup…
Africa makes up less than 3% of global genome sequencing, a laboratory procedure to determine the entire genetic makeup of…
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OKO, a Malian climate and agritech startup that provides climate insurance for African farmers, has raised an undisclosed funding round…
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For most people in Sub-Saharan Africa, electricity is unstable at best, nonexistent at worst. This leads to a variety of…