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TymeBank and Deel are rewriting Africa’s EWA playbook

TymeBank's earned wage access partnership with Deel Local Payroll is a live case study on how competitive dynamics can be rewritten in an instant. Welcome to unicorn-scale competition.

September 2025
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From ‘made from Africa’ to ‘made in Africa’: Gagan Gupta on building Africa’s industrial sovereignty

ARISE IIP's founder is creating industrial ecosystems across the African continent to transform raw materials locally and reclaim billions in economic value.

September 2025
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“Africans must not fear Africa”: Mo Ibrahim’s call for self-investment

Having sold Celtel for $3.4 billion when few believed in Africa’s promise, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation chair now urges African investors & institutions to bet on the continent, not abroad.

September 2025
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How Tosin Eniolorunda built Nigeria’s largest business payments platform

In a prescient 2022 interview, Tosin Eniolorunda outlined the exact strategy that would make his company Nigeria's newest billion-dollar startup two years later.

September 2025
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What Okra’s final interview reveals about startup strategy in African markets

A February 2025 panel discussion with the then-CEO of Nigerian open banking platform Okra now reads as a jolting preview of the startup's shutdown months later.

September 2025
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How Chowdeck plans to succeed where Jumia Food failed

By prioritizing couriers and everyday local foods, Chowdeck is riding an online food delivery wave that drowned Jumia Food and other early market entrants.

September 2025