Author: Chibuike Orji-Oko

In less than a decade, Zipline has transformed from a Silicon Valley robotics pivot into the world’s leading drone logistics company, reshaping how essential goods are delivered in some of the hardest-to-reach communities. What began as an experimental effort in Rwanda in 2016 has since evolved into a multinational logistics

Paystack has evolved from a scrappy Lagos startup to one of the most influential fintech companies in Africa, redefining how businesses accept and process payments across the continent. It emerged at a time when Nigerian merchants faced broken digital infrastructure: payment integrations were slow, expensive, and riddled with failure. By

In the mid-2010s, Africa’s e-commerce and fintech sectors were buzzing with optimism. Internet penetration was climbing, smartphone adoption was accelerating, and a young, tech-savvy population was eager for innovative solutions that could make life easier. Among the bold startups that emerged during this wave was Lipa Later, a Kenyan-born fintech

Inside M-Pesa’s journey lies one of the most remarkable stories of technological innovation reshaping the financial industry of Africa and beyond. Launched in Kenya in 2007 by Safaricom and Vodafone, M-Pesa (short for “mobile money” in Swahili) emerged as a bold experiment to address the limited access to banking services

In 2002, long before “fintech” became a buzzword in Africa, one Nigerian engineer saw a broken financial system and envisioned a seamless digital payments network. That engineer, Mitchell Elegbe, would go on to found Interswitch, the company that built the rails for Nigeria’s electronic payments ecosystem and became a blueprint