Technology shaping connection, culture, ownership and movement across the Black world.
For more than a decade, Nigerian PayPal accounts could pay foreign merchants but could not receive money. A partnership with Paga has reopened the inbound side of the network. PayPal has restored inbound payments for Nigerian users through Paga, ending a restriction that kept locally registered accounts from receiving money for most of the past.
The same 256GB iPhone sells at very different prices across African markets. Taxes, distribution, exchange rates and local retail structures explain much of the gap. Apple sells the 256GB iPhone 17 in the United States from $799. African buyers rarely see that price. In Nigeria, iStore currently lists the 256GB model at ₦1.399 million. In.
Bolt says it has sharply reduced the number of Nigerian drivers taking passengers off its platform, but the practice has exposed a deeper dispute over who bears the cost of running a ride-hailing business. By July 2025, Bolt said offline trips in Nigeria had fallen 42% after it tightened monitoring and penalties for drivers who.
Okra helped establish open banking as a serious fintech category in Nigeria, raised millions from international investors and still had cash when it closed. Its decision says as much about market timing as it does about startup failure. When Nigerian fintech Okra shut down in May 2025, the obvious explanation seemed to be that another.
In May 2025, Meta told a Nigerian court that it might have to shut Facebook and Instagram in the country. The warning came after the Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal upheld a $220 million penalty imposed by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), over Meta and WhatsApp’s treatment of Nigerian users. The shutdown.
By the end of March 2025, four African technology companies had reached very different versions of the same uncomfortable point. Lipa Later had entered administration. Bento Africa had suspended operations. Edukoya had wound down, while Joovlin had closed. Taken together, they became four of the most visible examples of African startups in crisis in 2025..
Strive Masiyiwa’s Cassava Technologies is putting high-performance AI computing infrastructure into its South African data centres, with Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco next. The bigger question is whether local compute can give African companies more control over the economics of artificial intelligence. When Cassava Technologies announced plans in March 2025 for what it called Africa’s.