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How Jephte Ioudom Foubi is rewriting the rules of AI development in Cameroon
In 2017, Jephte Ioudom Foubi was running JuuBots AI in Cameroon, building chatbots for beauty brands and entertainment…
VerseTap: How Pastor Simeon Taiwo built an AI-powered note-taking app for believers
Every piece of purpose-built software is born from a precise moment of human friction. For Pastor Simeon Adeola…
Sampson Ovuoba started coding at 13, dropped out of medical school to build a global developer tool
It was late in the afternoon on a quiet day in Lagos, the clock inching towards 5:00 p.m.…
TalkSign: Edidiong Ekong just wanted to talk to friends; now he is using AI to bridge the silence
On most afternoons, it looked like any other childhood. Children gathered outside, turning sand into makeshift houses, laughter…
How Betaling turned a student FX crisis in Kenya into an African cross-border payments business
It was December 2013: Oluwatomisin Ashimolowo had just arrived in Kenya as an 18-year-old preparing to commence his…
From getting a 4/20 in French, Owoade Apotierioluwa built a multilingual AI to help others
On a quiet afternoon in a boarding school in Saki, Oyo State, a teenage boy asked a simple…
Padiplug is providing charging on demand to Nigerians with power bank rental
It’s been decades of power struggles in Nigeria, and somehow, the national grid still manages to surprise us…
How Arden Elegbe’s Zenfinder is replacing Africa’s word-of-mouth referral network
We’ve all been there. It’s a Saturday morning, and your kitchen pipe suddenly bursts, sending water pooling on…
How Samuel Ajiboye is building 2 AI agents to rewire Africa’s billboard industry
Billboards have long been part of the landscape across Africa’s busiest highways and city centres. Brands pour money…
How John Imah fixed fashion’s costliest problems, ‘returns and conversion’ with SPREEAI, a $1.5b retail AI platform
Historically, the most expensive moment in fashion has always not been the runway show in Paris, nor the…
