Author: Chibuike Orji-Oko

Motorcycle taxis are the backbone of everyday mobility across African cities. They move millions of people and goods each day, but they are also expensive for riders to run, volatile in income, and deeply polluting. Fuel costs eat into earnings. Maintenance is constant, and for many riders, stability is always

It began in neighbourhoods where shop owners still ran on trust, thin margins, and whatever stock they could find that day. The idea sounded almost too straightforward at first… what if small retailers could get inventory reliably, quickly, and without the usual friction that slowed them down? With that simple

It started with a question that felt almost naive. Why is it so hard to get the medicines people need? Not rare cancer drugs or experimental therapies. Just everyday prescriptions. Blood pressure meds. Insulin. Antibiotics. The things pharmacies should never run out of, yet often do. Gregory Rockson saw that

Wave Mobile Money (known as Wave) has rapidly rewritten the rules of mobile payments in West Africa. Launched in Senegal by Americans Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk, Wave set out to fix what they saw as a broken system, mobile money run by telecom monopolies charging high fees for cumbersome

In the early 2010s Nairobi’s roads were familiar terrain for Meshack Alloys. At just 13 he was coding, once teaching himself at Laser Hill Academy, and later at the University of Nairobi’s College of Architecture and Engineering. His first startup, Merlloyds Technologies, came in 2008; followed by MTL Systems in

There was a time when saving money in Nigeria felt like a test of willpower, or worse, a gamble. Banks weren’t exactly built for young people trying to set aside a few thousand naira at a time. Hidden fees, clunky systems, and a general sense of mistrust made it easier

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

The LifeBank story is not merely about a startup; it is about the power of one entrepreneur’s vision to reshape healthcare access across Africa. Giwa-Tubosun, inspired by her personal encounters with maternal health challenges, built LifeBank as both a business and a mission. Today, the company stands as one of