Africa is changing rapidly and technology is increasingly at the centre of that transformation.
Across the continent, entrepreneurs are building businesses around financial technology, artificial intelligence, digital payments, health, agriculture, mobility, telecommunications and digital infrastructure. Governments are digitising public services, telecommunications companies are evolving into broader technology businesses, and investors are looking for the next generation of African companies capable of scaling beyond their home markets.
Yet Africa’s technology story is often told in fragments.
One story comes from Lagos. Another from Nairobi. Another from Cairo, Johannesburg, Kigali or Accra. Too often, these stories are viewed individually rather than as part of a much larger continental transformation.
Africa Tech is being launched to help change that.
Africa Tech is a pan-African technology media platform focused on the people, companies, ideas and technologies shaping the continent’s digital future.
Our coverage will span artificial intelligence, fintech, telecommunications, startups, cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, cloud computing, e-commerce, digital policy and emerging technologies.
But this will not simply be a platform for announcing product launches or repeating corporate press releases.
We want to understand why technology developments matter.
What does a new fintech product mean for consumers and businesses? What does the expansion of a data centre mean for Africa’s digital infrastructure? Which startups are solving uniquely African problems? Where is investment flowing? Which countries are creating the conditions for technology companies to grow? And what challenges could hold the continent back?
These questions matter because Africa’s digital economy is becoming increasingly significant.
The mobile industry alone contributed an estimated US$240 billion to Africa’s economy in 2025, equivalent to 7.8% of the continent’s GDP, while supporting approximately 13 million jobs, according to the GSMA. The organisation expects mobile technologies and services to contribute US$290 billion to Africa’s economy by 2030.
At the same time, significant gaps remain. Around two-thirds of Africa’s population does not currently use mobile internet, according to the GSMA, highlighting the difference between having connectivity available and people actually being able to use it.
The startup ecosystem is also evolving.
According to Partech’s 2025 Africa Tech Venture Capital Report, African technology companies raised US$4.1 billion in combined equity and debt funding in 2025, a 25% increase from 2024. Kenya, South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria accounted for 72% of total funding, demonstrating both the strength of the continent’s established hubs and the concentration of capital within them.
But the African technology story is bigger than funding numbers.
It is about the entrepreneur building a solution for farmers in Zambia. The developer creating software in Rwanda. The fintech founder expanding across West Africa. The telecommunications operator investing in digital infrastructure. The young people learning to build with AI. The businesses using technology to solve problems that have existed for decades.
That is the Africa Tech story.
Our ambition is to build a publication that connects these stories across borders and makes Africa’s technology ecosystem easier to understand.
55 countries. Thousands of companies. Millions of innovators. One digital future.
Africa Tech is here to tell the story.
And this is only the beginning.
Welcome to Africa Tech.
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