Africa’s telecom bond market has spent much of the past decade caught between promise and perception. Between 2021 and 2025, however, the narrative shifted more decisively. Across the continent, telecom operators returned to the bond market in size, refinancing maturing

These transactions suggest that Africa’s telecom bond market is reopening in earnest. At the centre of this revival is a familiar but often underestimated player: the anchor investor.

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What defines a Nollywood film as high quality? Here’s what filmmaker and author The Lord's storyteller shared on The Moonshot Podcast. She also explains the limits of traditional film distribution in Nigeria, why filmmakers are moving to YouTube, and what this shift means for the future of

In a 2,000-square-metre facility in Nsukka, Enugu State, in southeastern Nigeria, engineers assemble airframes, test control systems, and fine-tune battery modules to prove a point: Nigeria can build hard tech.

Watching Beast Games season 2, episode 8, I can't help admiring what Monica did there. She sold her coin and took $0 from the pool money. Now she doesn't have to tell anyone she sold the coin, and she still gets to keep $500k.

On Delve Into AI this week, I spoke to Abdoulaye Diack, program manager at Google Research, about WAXAL, an open-source speech dataset from Google Research Africa. How Google wants to teach AI Africa’s 2,000 languages techcabal.com/2026/02/12/voi…

When Abdoulaye Diack, program manager at Google Research, a division of Google dedicated to advancing the state of the art in computer science and applying those breakthroughs to real-world problems, talks about the origins of WAXAL, an open-source speech dataset from Google

“WAXAL means ‘speaking,’” he told TechCabal, noting its roots in Wolof, a widely spoken language in the Senegambia region.

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You might have heard about the data centres that have been established in Nigerian cities like Lagos and Port Harcourt. Their establishment has prompted concerns from people questioning what this means for the environmental rights of host communities. Will these data centres

MTN Group is moving to take full ownership of IHS Towers in a $2.2 billion deal that would consolidate control of nearly 29,000 telecom towers across Africa. IHS Towers accepted an offer of $8.50 per share in a transaction that would increase MTN’s stake to 100% and result in

MTN owns approximately 24.7% of IHS and intends to acquire all outstanding shares it does not already hold through a cash merger. techcabal.com/2026/02/17/mtn…

In a statement issued on Tuesday, Minister Dr. 'Bosun Tijani said the Ministry would undertake a “thorough assessment” of the transaction in collaboration with relevant regulators. techcabal.com/2026/02/17/nig…

With every $1 generated directly by air transport creating an additional $5.30 in economic activity, local development of aviation technology represents a major opportunity. That local development is what Phungela Holdings, a South African digital transformation and enterprise

Lol...the chickens are coming home to roost. We know where some of those monies were deployed. But let's pretend we're shocked. What!!!

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