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Duplo is building the financial tools behind African businesses.
Yele Oyekola and Tunde Akinnuwa are developing payments and financial operations technology for growing African companies.
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PROFILE / FintechCôte d’Ivoire
Djamo’s founders are expanding digital finance across Francophone Africa.
From Abidjan to Senegal, Hassan Bourgi and Régis Bamba are building a broader platform for savings, payments and business services.
PROFILE / FintechEgypt
Fawry’s Ashraf Sabry connects fintech scale with profitability.
Egypt’s listed payments business illustrates the development of a financial ecosystem connecting consumers, merchants, banks and businesses.
PROFILE / FintechEgypt
Paymob takes an Egyptian payments business across regional markets.
Islam Shawky and his co-founders have built a payments platform serving merchants in Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman.
PROFILE / MarketsPan-African
Airtel Money’s scale brings African fintech to international capital markets.
My Africa Observer’s LinkedIn coverage examines Ian Ferrao’s leadership and the reach of Airtel Money’s financial services network.
PROFILE / FintechPan-African
Chipper Cash’s founders connect millions to the digital economy.
Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled built a financial technology platform around cross-border payments and access to digital services.
PROFILE / CompaniesGhana
Complete Farmer connects Ghanaian agriculture with finance and global buyers.
Desmond Koney’s technology platform brings farmers, financing and commercial opportunities together across agricultural value chains.
PROFILE / TechnologyEgypt
Synapse Analytics takes Egyptian AI into international financial markets.
Ahmed Abaza and Galal Elbeshbishy are building technology to support lending and credit decisions across multiple markets.
PROFILE / EnergyPan-African
Spiro is building the infrastructure behind African electric mobility.
Electric motorcycles, battery swapping and manufacturing are coming together in a mobility ecosystem built around African markets.
PROFILE / CompaniesKenya
Safaricom’s next chapter reaches beyond telecommunications.
Under Peter Ndegwa, the group is developing its financial services and technology businesses alongside connectivity in Kenya and Ethiopia.
PROFILE / FintechNigeria
Flutterwave’s bigger ambition is Africa’s financial infrastructure.
Olugbenga Agboola’s company is building beyond payment processing to connect businesses across fragmented African financial systems.
PROFILE / TechnologyNigeria
Sim Shagaya is building an education business beyond e-commerce.
The uLesson Group brings together digital learning and Miva Open University, extending Shagaya’s entrepreneurial focus into education.
PROFILE / TechnologyEgypt
iSchool takes Egyptian education technology to international markets.
Muhammad Gawish’s company is developing from coding education into a wider platform for learning tools and school technology.
PROFILE / FintechNigeria
Nomba builds beyond merchant payments towards African trade.
Yinka Adewale and Pelumi Aboluwarin are expanding a Nigerian payments business into financial infrastructure for cross-border commerce.
PROFILE / FintechNigeria
PiggyVest’s growth rests on the trust built around everyday savings.
Founded in 2016, the Nigerian platform has developed automated savings, financial goals and investment products around a familiar local habit.
PROFILE / InfrastructureNigeria
Moove’s founders are building the operating infrastructure of mobility.
Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi’s company has developed from vehicle finance into fleet operations and autonomous mobility infrastructure.
PROFILE / LeadershipNigeria
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji’s entrepreneurial journey connects African talent and commerce.
Through Andela and Flutterwave, the Nigerian co-founder helped build businesses linking African capabilities with global opportunities.
PROFILE / TechnologyPan-African
Strive Masiyiwa’s next infrastructure ambition is computing power.
Cassava Technologies connects a telecommunications legacy with data centres, cloud services and the infrastructure required for African AI.
PROFILE / InvestmentNigeria
Kola Aina’s Ventures Platform backs the next generation of African companies.
The investment firm connects early-stage founders with capital and support, with a portfolio spanning African technology and financial services.
PROFILE / InvestmentRwanda
Rwanda’s Formula 1 ambitions put tourism and infrastructure in focus.
My Africa Observer’s LinkedIn coverage considers the business opportunities associated with a planned African Grand Prix.
THE BIG READ / InfrastructurePan-African
The real value of a trade corridor is the certainty it gives a business.
Ports and roads create capacity. Turning that capacity into dependable deliveries can change the economics of production, working capital and expansion.
ANALYSIS / MarketsEgypt
Africa’s fintechs face their next test: public markets.
MNT-Halan’s planned Egyptian listing raises a bigger question: how does a private-market success become a public-market business?
ANALYSIS / StartupsNigeria
For African AI, the next milestone is a paying customer.
Askya’s AI Growth Platform puts commercial execution at the centre of its inaugural cohort, chaired by Moniepoint founder Tosin Eniolorunda.
ANALYSIS / InfrastructureMorocco
At Tanger Med, the bigger story is what moves behind the port.
Container growth measures throughput. The industrial connections behind it help explain the economic opportunity.
ANALYSIS / EconomyPan-African
Africa’s growth story is also a capital allocation story.
The African Development Bank’s 2026 outlook places financing at the heart of the continent’s next phase of growth.
Morocco & Egypt€25mProposed IFC fund commitment
ANALYSIS / InvestmentMorocco & Egypt
The middle market is where patient capital meets expansion.
IFC’s proposed commitment to Amethis MENA Fund III illustrates how private equity can reach businesses beyond the largest corporate groups.
ANALYSIS / CompaniesSouth Africa
A supply chain is only as strong as its least reliable link.
The economics of logistics reach far beyond the terminal gate, shaping inventory, working capital and a company’s ability to deliver.
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