Posts by Alastair Tempest

BabyBliss Nigeria and MumsVillage Kenya have merged to create a pan-African entity, providing what they say is an “unparalleled omnichannel commerce, community and content offering”. BabyBliss Nigeria brings deep retail…

Startup Oniocha from Ghana is looking for investment to introduce its online bookstore across the continent. Oniocha allows customers to buy, sell, request and swap books, all on one digital marketplace. The COVID lockdown has increased the…

 African fashion designers have several new platforms, such as AFI Designer Boutique, created by Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe’s African Fashion International in 2019, which is designed to help promote African luxury fashion designers on the global…

Zimbabwe-based hotel-booking startup Africabookings is the second platform acquired by B2B firm HotelOnline within a month, as the company looks to increase its B2B offering. That deal was completed in June, at…

Online travel experiences are more or less the only way for holiday makers to enjoy tourism today and many tourism bodies are offering virtual trips. The fate of tourism’s expos,…

Sonatel (42% owned by France’s Orange) is planning to raise $171 million on the regional market for the first time to take advantage of higher demand for digital services amid the COVID pandemic. The company…

The Nigerian Minister of Communications and Digital Economy has reported that the country has achieved 40.18% broadband penetration and plans to reach 70% broadband penetration target by 2025. Nigeria has also seen 2.5 million new internet subscribers since April. According to…

Loon, part of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, in collaboration with Telkom Kenya, launched 35 balloons which have started delivering internet service to Kenya this month, extending online access to tens of thousands of people in the first-ever commercial deployment…

One of the major growth areas caused by the COVID lockdowns throughout Africa has been the increase in vocational and technical training – for example, Traindemy from Nigeria, offers access to online courses…

Trademark East Africa, a body set up and funded by development aid works with Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda to create a single free trade bloc. Trademark East Africa is…