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DOSSIER: TECHNOLOGY & INFORMATION
Focus on Technology

In 2020, African startups raised a record $2.4bn, a figure that more than doubled in 2021 to $4.9bn. What is the outlook for Africa’s Tech scene in 2022?

Features:
➡ Tech in 2022: Building on the unicorn boom
➡ Can Africa enter the metaverse?
➡ Freeze on accounts upsets African startups
➡ Can Uganda’s tech scene compete with Kenya?
➡ Uganda telemedicine startup takes first step to scale across Africa
➡ Elon Musk’s Starlink: Closing the last mile for the internet in Africa?

Features:

  • Technology & Information

    Tech in 2022: Building on the unicorn boom

    Tom Collins
  • Technology & Information

    Can Africa enter the metaverse?

    Will McBain
  • Finance & Services

    Freeze on accounts upsets African startups

    Pelumi Salako
  • Technology & Information

    Can Uganda’s tech scene compete with Kenya?

    Tom Collins
  • Finance & Services

    Uganda telemedicine startup takes first step to scale across Africa

    Tom Collins
  • Technology & Information

    Elon Musk’s Starlink: Closing the last mile for the internet in Africa?

    Ben Payton
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How Africa’s digital economy can reach its potential and transform the continent

Accessing the internet through desktop or laptop computers has not been an option for people in Africa, owing to cost and availability. For that reason, the mobile phone has been the primary tool for accessing internet on the continent. Continue reading ➡

Interviews:

  • Technology & Information

    Driving growth across African e-commerce – Daniel Yu, founder and CEO, Wasoko

    Dr Desné Masie
  • Technology & Information

    Funke Opeke: Building a $320m data centre player

    David Thomas
  • Lacina Koné
    Finance & Services

    Africa must invest more in itself, says Smart Africa’s Lacina Koné

    Omar Ben Yedder
  • Technology & Information

    Are African governments digitalising fast enough?

    Tom Collins
  • Technology & Information

    Made in Africa: The role of localisation in African tech governance

    Aparupa Chakravarti
  • Finance & Services

    How banks and telcos can advance Nigeria’s telecoms revolution

    Michael Nwadike

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The Focus on Technology 2022 report was first published in the May 2022 issue of African Business.

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