Nigerian payments startup Flutterwave, which is valued at $3B, is facing allegations of a money laundering scheme worth up to $215M in Kenya
Abubakar Idris / Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld , @restofworld , and @yinkawrites Tweets: @restofworld : Months after accusations of mismanagement and sexual harassment rocked the Nigerian fint...
A look at the rise of BNPL services in Nigeria as some doubt the success of local startups amid weak ID verification systems and scant consumer credit records
Abubakar Idris / Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld and @yinkawrites Tweets: @restofworld : Only 2% of Nigeria's 106 million adults have access to bank credit, and credit cards are also conspicuous...
A look at China's extensive tech investments in Africa, including undersea cables, data centers, and fintech apps, as part of its “Digital Silk Road” initiative
from e-commerce, smart cities, and fintech apps to big data, internet of things, smartphones, and undersea cables — is a growing point of concern https://restofworld.org/... Peter Guest / @peterguest ...
Profile of Abu Dhabi-based music streaming service Anghami, which has 1.4M paying subscribers and 70M total users, as it goes public via a $220M SPAC merger
the business model and the music we listen to https://restofworld.org/... via @restofworld Yinka Adegoke / @yinkawrites : @Mark_Mulligan ... As Universal Music digital EVP Michael Nash told me: “There...
Profile of Abu Dhabi-based music streaming service Anghami, which has 1.4M paying subscribers and 70M total users, as it goes public via a $220M SPAC merger
Anghami is a case study in how the music business is being gradually transformed from outside its core centers of New York, Los Angeles and London. Tweets: @yinkawrites , @yinkawrites , @restofworld ,...
How Parallel Wireless, a New Hampshire-based Open RAN vendor, is leading the charge to turn African mobile operators away from China's Huawei and ZTE
Abubakar Idris / Rest of World : Tweets: @yinkawrites , @nicdawes , @yinkawrites , and @restofworld Tweets: Yinka Adegoke / @yinkawrites : The race to build Africa's 5G networks is entangled in a U.S...
Kenyan tech founders say there is a funding bias toward North American and European expats in the country; analysis: only one Kenyan founder raised $1M+ in 2019
but their founders are rarely Kenyan https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : In 2019, only one of the Kenyan startups that raised more than $1 million had a local founder. Four startups had a mix o...
Koo, the Indian microblogging app that has positioned itself as a government-friendly alternative to Twitter in India, is taking a similar approach in Nigeria
Rest of World : Tweets: @anirvan , @architmeta , @peterguest , @cengizyar , @nilchristopher , @iatalkspace , @yinkawrites , and @evelyndouek Tweets: Anirvan Chatterjee / @anirvan : “Just under a week...
Inside TikTok's strategy to get a foothold in Africa: signing up Instagram and YouTube creators, hiring staff in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, and more
Alexandria Williams / Quartz : Tweets: @yinkawrites and @brianmbunde See also Mediagazer Tweets: Yinka Adegoke / @yinkawrites : TikTok is quietly snapping up creatives from YouTube and Instagram in a...