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Across Africa, governments are rewriting the rules on tax. From the streets of Nairobi to the parliament buildings of Accra and Abuja, finance bills are reshaping how small businesses operate
97% of Kenyan internet users are on WhatsApp. Most African SMEs run their entire business through it — and most are leaving serious capability on the table. Here's what to fix.
Bad products don't kill most African SMEs. Bad administration does. Here's what the research says — and what to do about it across Zambia, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, and Kenya.
Stablecoins are digital currencies pegged 1:1 to a stable asset — almost always the US dollar. The two dominant ones are USDT (Tether) and USDC (Circle). Unlike Bitcoin or Ethereum, their value..
Every morning in Kampala, university student Grace logs into her accommodation app to check her rent balance. The platform offers her something her landlord never could: a payment plan ..
For decades, sending money across African borders was an expensive, slow, and frustrating process. A business in Ghana trying to pay a supplier in Kenya would see their payment routed through..
On 4th February 2026, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Abena Asante-Asiedu, announced a groundbreaking initiative at the African Prosperity Dialogues: a fintech passport agreement with Rwanda...
On 5th January 2026, Flutterwave, Africa's most valuable fintech company, announced the acquisition of Mono, Nigeria's leading open banking infrastructure provider, in an all-stock deal valued ..
If you're running a retail business in Africa right now, you don't need me to tell you that 2025 was brutal. Currency volatility, persistent inflation, supply chain disruptions, ..
2025 was supposed to be the year of recovery. Instead, it became the year of reckoning. African entrepreneurs faced a perfect storm: currency devaluations averaging 27% against the dollar[^1],