Zulu, which currently has 32,000 learners on Duolingo’s platform is the second African languages to be added after Swahili which has 433,000 learners.
Most African countries have been unable to tame rising inflation but Zambia has managed to reduce the inflation rate from 24.4% in August 2021 to 9.7% in June
As petrol-powered bikes keep becoming expensive to maintain, many startups are investing in e-mobility bikes and services in Nairobi
CEO Daniel Yu told Quartz that he found Zanzibar’s fiscal policies more supportive to his expansion plan across Africa
INSA has warned crypto players in Ethiopia that failing to register their platforms within 10 days will land them in trouble.
Ruto's win is in jeopardy after court petitions claim his agents used technology to hack into the IEBC portal and manipulated results in his favor.
At the TICAD summit in Tunis, Japan will be trying to catch up with China, US and EU in investing in Africa
Many citizens cannot afford to join the metaverse obsession and Meta’s efforts may not bear the results it is targeting.
Africa’s over-dependence on the US for cloud services is now a breeding ground for data colonialism
Togo already has established its National Cybersecurity Agency and a Personal Data Protection Authority making itself a leader in Africa’s cyberspace
After a new broadband service was installed, tourists can now enjoy all internet services from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro
Kenya’s micro-economy moved on but the macro-economy is running on auto-pilot after Odinga rejected poll results
Several stumbling blocks stand in Ruto's pathway to transform his country's tech ecosystem to claim a share of the global digital economy market
Many voters and aspirants still see technology as a vulnerability to a free and fair election
The new government will have to deal with huge public debt, corruption, and unemployment amidst rising inflation and a declining currency.
Investing in non-renewables is counter-productive as the world shifts to clean energy, climate activists warn.
Mukhtar Robow is a founding member of Al-Shabaab who became its spokesperson before defecting to support the Somali government
The US is predicting election violence in Kenya, and is advising its staff to be more vigilant in Kisumu city
Kenya is in the midst of a high-inflation era with a rising cost of living, but one thing in particular doesn’t seem to have suffered much from people’s dwindling incomes: alcohol sales.
Africa’s health systems were creaking even before the covid-19 pandemic and the cause was the continent’s low capacity in the manufacturing of medicine locally, the delays in shipping drugs to the continent, and after months of waiting, the high costs especially to customers outside of urban areas.
Over 80 labor organizations from across the world want Meta to cease attempts to silence South African whistleblower Daniel Motaung, who was fired for leading unionization efforts seeking better pay and mental health support for workers.
If Africa wants to leapfrog its infrastructural hurdles, then it must look beyond its own pockets to bridge its huge financing gap. This emerged during the Africa 50 general shareholders meeting held in Marrakech, Morocco on July 19. Africa 50 is an investment bank for infrastructure in Africa that focuses on national and regional projects in energy, transport, ICT, and water.
Hi Quartz Africa members,
Do machines understand Africa? This is the question Meta started answering this month when it published a research paper (pdf) that details plans to improve the accuracy with which AI algorithms decode African languages.
