Saly AI Crosses ₦1.5B in Conversational Banking Volume
Nigerian fintech startup Saly AI has surpassed 20,000 active users and processed ₦1.5 billion in volume, proving the viability of app-free conversational banking across Africa.
AI & Emerging Technology
What artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies mean for African workers, businesses and governments. Concrete and grounded, not speculative.
Why African SMEs Are Accelerating Cloud ERP & AI in 2026
Faced with currency fluctuations and supply chain friction, African SMEs are ditching fragmented software tools for integrated, cloud-native Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems that serve as the real-time nerve center of their operations.
What African Founders Actually Think About AI Tools
Adoption is high and enthusiasm is lower than the marketing suggests. Founders describe real productivity gains alongside costs and constraints that rarely make the pitch.
Why Language Models Struggle With African Languages
The gap is not linguistic difficulty. It is that the text these systems learn from was scraped from a web that barely contains these languages.
What AI Is Actually Being Used For, Once You Look Past the Announcements
The deployed applications are less exciting and more useful than the ones that get launch coverage: document handling, triage, translation and fraud detection.
The Compute Question Nobody Wants to Answer
Training capacity is concentrated in a handful of countries. What that means for everyone else is a question of strategy, not sentiment.