Africa’s digital economy is entering a new phase. The focus is increasingly shifting from simply getting people and businesses online to building connected systems that can turn digital participation into economic value. At GITEX Nigeria 2026, Mastercard used its presence to highlight interoperability, financial innovation, local capability and cybersecurity as key pillars of that transition.…

Nigeria’s small and medium-sized businesses are increasingly turning to digital platforms to find customers, build brands and compete in crowded markets. Against this backdrop, Access Bank has partnered with Aktivate, a creator-economy platform, to help SMEs use creator marketing as a practical tool for business growth. The partnership reflects a broader shift in how small…

For businesses moving money across borders, speed and convenience are only part of the equation. The other part is trust: knowing that payments are processed through legitimate channels, that customers are properly verified and that transactions are subject to regulatory oversight. This is why Oneremit’s growing regulatory footprint has become an important part of its…

Africa’s artificial intelligence ambitions are growing, but one of the continent’s biggest AI challenges is not computing power or model architecture. It is data. For developers trying to build AI systems that understand African languages, finding enough high-quality, representative and legally usable language data can be harder than building the models themselves. Most modern AI…

Nigeria’s digital economy is expanding rapidly, but access to reliable connectivity remains uneven. While major cities have benefited from growing broadband coverage and digital services, many communities and businesses still face weak infrastructure, expensive internet access and unreliable networks. Fieldbase is emerging as part of a new generation of companies attempting to address these gaps…

Kenya is widely recognised as one of Africa’s pioneers in digital payments, largely because mobile money transformed how millions of people send, receive and store value. But the next chapter of the country’s payments revolution cannot simply be about getting more people to use mobile money. It must be about building a broader digital financial…