Born from constrained capital and missing infrastructure, African frugal innovations are proving that doing more with less is no longer a localised survival mechanism. They offer a working…
Africa’s digital expansion is racing ahead across undersea cables, mobile towers, and server farms. Yet this physical boom conceals a deeper economic reality: as connectivity scales, ownership of…
The Kenyan software engineer building a home-grown enterprise application faces a formidable structural reality: global technology giants command the underlying infrastructure, capture user attention, and extract recurring economic…
A crowded Nairobi barbershop discovers it serves 180 loyal customers a month, not by hiring a management consultant, but by letting software parse its mobile money records. By…
For years, educated young Kenyans earned money writing assignments for overseas university students. Then ChatGPT arrived, offering a glimpse of how quickly AI can wipe out an entire…
As Kenya’s online retail sector pushes toward KSh 500bn, trade leaders warn that regional policy fragmentation is leaving merchants vulnerable. By Our Reporter Kenya’s digital economy presents a…
The bill for the digital boom is only starting to arrive By Muturi Githae In Nairobi, a data-centre expansion that will add 20MW of computing capacity is being…
The greenest AI may also be the cheapest one By Muturi Githae A data centre is not normally sold as an energy story. In Kenya it increasingly has…
A machine now decides which macadamia nuts make the grade at Kakuzi’s processing plant. That may sound like a modest upgrade. It is not. By Our Reporter Kenya’s…
A KSh2,500 monthly discount may not sound like much in a country where the cost of living is discussed in larger denominations. For Starlink, however, it marks a…
