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In this article, we highlight the women whose roles influence the systems, partnerships, and platforms at the core of West Africa’s fintech industry.
In this edition of After Hours, we follow Amina Asu-Beks and how she built an AI-shopping assistant without a technical background or a completed university degree.
Fixr employs 400 technicians, runs its own logistics, and has processed nearly ₦5bn in solar financing, all without VC funding. Here’s how it’s scaling a contractor-led model across Nigeria and beyond.
As Nigeria’s waste crisis deepens, Ecobarter is betting that paying people to recycle and digitising informal collectors can succeed where public systems have struggled.
After leaving Google, Ibrahima Sylla returned to Côte d’Ivoire to build for the African market. With Yelen, he’s turning WhatsApp and Instagram conversations into structured storefronts, helping social sellers manage payments, customers, and operations from one platform.
Sampson Ovuoba believes building UI should not be code-heavy, so he built Windframe for developers to build visually. Today, engineers from a16z use the platform for prototyping.
In this edition of After Hours, we follow Eunice Olubayo as she shares the challenges of pursuing a space career in a landscape where opportunities were scarce.
In this edition of After Hours, we discuss how a creative writer, brand strategist, and startup operator is transitioning into tech while building solutions for local businesses.
From corporate communications and oil and gas to fintech, Bukola Alawiye and Busola Oluwatobi have taken unconventional paths into Africa’s tech ecosystem. They share how curiosity, mentorship, and constant learning helped them transition into tech.
In this edition of After Hours, Goshit Rotkhinen Gideon shares how he went from writing lines of code on physical sheets of paper to building advanced AI agents for healthcare
Nigerian fintech Nomba has evolved from a chatbot into a payments platform helping African businesses accept payments, manage finances, and receive international funds at lower costs.
In this edition of Techpoint Diaspora, Tolu Fagbola shares how his background in telecoms, training, and education technology led him to build an AI-powered platform tackling preventable healthcare emergencies in the United States.
This Nigerian startup is turning school curriculum into immersive games designed to hold children’s attention for hours.
Inspired by Nigeria’s Jump n Pass, SKAAP is building a scan-and-go checkout system in North America. But after slow traction in Canada, founder Samuel Oyedemi is betting the US and its retail density will finally make it stick.
In this edition of After Hours, we follow Olusegun Enitan Dada, founder of ITH Holdings and how technology became his language for solving structural problems.
Modulaw AI embedded about 10,000 Nigerian appellate and Supreme Court judgments into its system, letting lawyers research, manage cases, automate workflows, and handle billing from one interface.
Cubeseed Africa wants to cut out middlemen and bring structure to Nigeria’s ₦900 billion poultry market. With escrow payments, credit partnerships, and 4,000+ farmers onboarded, it aims to make chicken cheaper and farmers more profitable.
Favour Onuoha began coding at 12. Today, he has onboarded many developers, built DevRel systems from scratch, and worked on global Web3 projects.
In this edition of After Hours, Ofure Fortunate Agaga shares how failing an exam reshaped her career path and how she found her way from medicine into AI.
From tinkering with his mother’s phone to leading developer relations in web3, Joshua Nwankwo has built a career translating complex tools into usable ecosystems.
