Tech Talent
Engineers, designers, product people and operators: careers, skills, hiring and the people behind African tech.
Ada Nduka Oyom: From microbiology student to developer relations and She Code Africa
Ada Nduka Oyom did not begin university on a computer science track. She studied microbiology, then discovered a different direction through a campus...
Gift Egwuenu: How code, community and writing built a developer advocacy career
Gift Egwuenu’s career shows that being useful to other developers can become a profession of its own. The Nigerian technologist, now based in...
Spiro and ESP start Rwanda pilot for women in electric mobility
Spiro and Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners have announced a Women in E-Mobility programme with an ambition to support 5,000 women across Africa. The first...
Kenya courts German customer-service firms in digital jobs push
Kenya is seeking closer links with German customer-service companies as it works to expand business process outsourcing and global business services. Officials met...
Zambia schedules five-day AI training for public-sector leaders
SMART Zambia Institute and Huawei Technologies Zambia plan to begin a five-day artificial intelligence training programme on 2 November. Announced in Lusaka on...
Egypt’s NTRA trains telecom regulators from 15 countries on equipment approval
Egypt’s National Telecom Regulatory Authority has completed an online training course on telecommunications equipment type approval, with 37 participants drawn from 15 countries....
Eighteen startups enter Hedera-linked Web3 incubation programme
Dar Blockchain and The Hashgraph Association have selected 18 startups for an incubation programme supporting teams emerging from the Hedera Africa Hackathon. The...
Talent Nation secures pre-seed backing for African AI engineering training
Talent Nation has secured an undisclosed pre-seed investment to expand AI engineering training and connect African technical talent with businesses worldwide. Backers named...
Founder Stories
Ikenna Nzewi: The Releaf journey that led to Biochar Industrial Group
Ikenna Nzewi’s startup career has moved from improving agricultural processing to turning its leftovers into a climate technology business. The thread connecting those...
Shola Akinlade: From building software in Lagos to Paystack and The Stack Group
Before Paystack became part of Stripe, Shola Akinlade was a software builder working through a much smaller question: how could the tools he...
