This week, Meta’s engineering team shared a milestone that, in my view, could go down as a turning point in Africa’s digital transformation journey: the completion of the core 2Africa subsea cable system — now officially the longest open-access subsea cable network on the planet. At a massive 45,000 kilometres, connecting 33

Early this month, I wrote about KCB Group’s strategic minority investment in PesaPal — a move, as KCB put it, to “advance innovative payment and financial solutions for Kenya’s small and micro enterprises (SMEs)”. But that investment, as significant as it was, turned out to be just the appetizer. Just two weeks

This week’s Huawei Innovation & Intellectual Property Forum 2025 (IPR 2025) held in Beijing was all about one theme: “Advancing Innovation with Openness.” I found the event inspiring and informative as it clarified how a relentless focus on research and development (R&D) and a collaborative approach to intellectual property (IP)