Today Africa

10/10/2025

09/10/2025

In Africa, a good product alone doesn’t win the market; distribution does. Across the continent, thousands of small and large businesses struggle not because demand is lacking, but because they can’t get their products efficiently to the people who need them. A promising business might stall in expansion, not because the idea isn’t solid, but because distribution doesn’t scale as easily as ambition....

In this article, we’ll explore how to build scalable distribution channels in Africa, using real-world examples, data, and frameworks.

09/10/2025

Every startup, creator, and small business begins the same way, with a dream and zero customers. You’ve built something you believe in, a product, a service, a course, or even a community, but the challenge now is turning that belief into sales. You share posts on social media, tell a few friends, maybe even run small ads, yet it feels like shouting into a void....

Learn how to get your first 100 customers without spending big, using real, proven methods that entrepreneurs across Africa and beyond.

09/10/2025

08/10/2025

In a world where global streaming platforms dominate our screens, one Ethiopian platform has quietly been rewriting the script, telling Africa’s stories through its own lens. At the heart of this journey is Tigist Kebede, co-founder/operations director of Habeshaview, whose story is as inspiring as the films her platform promotes. From teaching and law to entrepreneurship, Tigist’s mission is clear: to reshape how the world sees Ethiopia, not through the lens of outdated stereotypes, but through original stories told by Ethiopians themselves....

In this interview with Today Africa, Tigist Kebede opens up about the inspiration and challenges of building a streaming platform from scratch

08/10/2025

Kenya’s largest telco by subscribers and revenue, Safaricom, fires 113 employees over fraud, up from 95 in 2023, suggesting a rise in internal misconduct. The figure, revealed in Safaricom’s 2024 Sustainability Report released on Wednesday, highlights how fraud—from within and outside the company—continues to pose a significant threat to a business that handles billions of shillings daily through its M-Pesa mobile money platform....

Kenya’s largest telco by subscribers, Safaricom, fires 113 employees over fraud, up from 95 in 2023, suggesting a rise in internal misconduct.

08/10/2025

Moniepoint bets $7.39 million on London expansion in UK remittance push, and so far, it has spent nearly half. This London remittance bet has cost $3.77 million since February 2024, according to UK regulatory filings. Between February and December 2024, the fintech spent $1.26 million—reported as a loss—on administrative and infrastructure expenses, and another $2.51 million as equity deposit for its acquisition of Bancom, an electronic money institution regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)....

Moniepoint bets $7.39 million on London expansion in UK remittance push, and so far, it has spent nearly half.

07/10/2025

In 2016, a small group of Nigerians set out to solve what felt like an invisible but deeply frustrating problem -

"African businesses could not move money easily".

Not within the continent, not across it, and certainly not beyond it. For a continent with talent and trade potential, the infrastructure beneath it was embarrassingly out of sync with the ambition above it.

That frustration became Flutterwave, a company built to make it simple for African businesses to accept and send payments globally, using modern, developer-friendly technology.

This week's edition of StoryLab is on Flutterwave...

07/10/2025

In 2016, a small group of Nigerian technologists and entrepreneurs set out to solve what felt like an invisible but deeply frustrating problem - "African businesses could not move money easily". Not within the continent, not across it, and certainly not beyond it. For a continent with talent and trade potential, the infrastructure beneath it was embarrassingly out of sync with the ambition above it....

This is an inside Flutterwave’s journey, not just as a company, but as a symbol of what it takes to build modern digital infrastructure.

07/10/2025

After over a decade of investment and expansion across Africa, M-KOPA turns its first-ever profit as revenue surges 66% to $416m. The Nairobi-based asset-financing startup reported a profit of KES 1.2 billion ($9.2 million) in 2024, bouncing from a loss of KES 3.2 billion ($24.7 million) the previous year, according to its latest filings in the United Kingdom. Revenue jumped 66% to KES 53.7 billion ($416 million), marking one of the strongest growths in Kenya’s startup ecosystem....

After over a decade of investment and expansion across Africa, M-KOPA turns its first-ever profit as revenue surges 66% to $416m.