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    Udoh Charles

    Charles operates at the forefront of African technology ecosystems as a lawyer, analyst, researcher, and go-to expert with several years of experience working across Africa’s tech sector. In addition to advising on multi-million-dollar cross-border venture capital, private equity, IP, and governance deals across Africa, the US, Europe, and Asia, he is an award-winning writer passionate about chronicling the rise of African innovation.
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    Familiar Money Bolsters OPay’s IPO Demand as Thin Float Raises Liquidity Questions

    As the Nigerian payments giant prepares to hit Wall Street, filings reveal an IPO heavily reliant on existing money.
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    Khazna Joins Egypt’s Consumer Finance M&A Rush With Pharos Acquisition

    A regulatory clampdown has turned existing consumer finance licences into scarce commodities, sparking a rush of high-stakes deals across Cairo.
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    “We’re Not Monitoring Energy — We’re Deciding What Happens Next”: Inside PowerLabs’ Bet on Automation

    "The most important lesson we’ve taken from this journey is how much your team determines everything else."
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    Five Brutal Truths About African Tech in Q1 2026

    Quarter-on-quarter deal data from Q1 2025 and Q1 2026  reveals an ecosystem in the middle of a structural reset. These are the five things the numbers say plainly.
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    ‘Stay in It’: How Over 200 Interviews and a LinkedIn Post Led to a $2.35M Seed Round for Orca

    The startup’s latest raise marks a landmark achievement as one of the largest seed rounds ever secured by an all-female founding team in Africa.
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    From iROKOtv to Showmax: Is the ‘Netflix of Africa’ Dream Officially Dead?

    As Showmax begins its shutdown in the wake of a capital-intensive global streaming war, it joins a long list of well-funded, ambitious local platforms...
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    Too Many Cooks? Nigeria’s Plan for a New Fintech Regulator Draws Parallels to the UK’s Northern Rock Crisis

    The Northern Rock crisis taught the world that financial regulation is not a matter of checking boxes.
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    Death by Paperwork: How African Governments Quietly Became Their Startups’ Biggest Risk

    How regulation - once an afterthought in Africa's startup boom - quietly became the continent's most powerful market force. And what happens when it arrives too late, too fast, and all at once.
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    “Harder to Build, but More Defensible”: Enakl Co-Founder on Tackling Morocco’s Commuter Chaos

    "Our objective is not growth at all costs."
    Policy & Regulations Forum

    “Frictionless” No More: Nigeria’s Tax Reforms Turn Delaware Flips into Million-Dollar Liabilities

    Under Nigeria’s sweeping Tax Reform Acts, what was once a simple paperwork exercise has become a high-stakes tax event that can trigger massive liabilities before a single dollar of new investment reaches the bank.
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    Africa Incorporated: Is It Time to Domesticate the Delaware Flip?

    EU Inc suggests that even Europe now recognises that legal fragmentation quietly kills ambition.
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    African Tech Predictions for 2026: After the Rebound

    2025 ended with a notable rebound in startup financing across Africa.
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    Revisiting the 2025 Predictions for African Tech

    Capital can return quickly. Credibility and time are far harder to earn.
    Ecosystem News

    ‘Valuations Still Far Too High’: Lexi Novitske on Investing a $205m Africa Tech Fund Amid Market Turbulence

    In this exclusive interview, Launch Base Africa asks one of the continent’s top VCs about the key lessons from backing Africa’s leading growth-stage deals — and what’s behind the slowdown in later-stage funding.
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    Familiar Money Bolsters OPay’s IPO Demand as Thin Float Raises Liquidity Questions

    As the Nigerian payments giant prepares to hit Wall Street, filings reveal an IPO heavily reliant on existing money.
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    Khazna Joins Egypt’s Consumer Finance M&A Rush With Pharos Acquisition

    A regulatory clampdown has turned existing consumer finance licences into scarce commodities, sparking a rush of high-stakes deals across Cairo.
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    Aries Media Ventures Launches Fund I to Back Underfunded Mediatech Startups in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Former NBCUniversal exec is ditching Hollywood to back African mediatech
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    9,228 Daily Swaps: Egyptian Billionaire-Backed Blu EV Tests the Limits of Battery-as-a-Service in MENA

    Naguib Sawiris's battery-swapping group has built the largest network of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa. Whether each cabinet earns back the batteries it cycles is a question it has not answered.

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