Africa

Richmond has built a financial technology company that provides secured and fast payment solutions and tailor-made business tools for individuals and small businesses. — Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself, where you’re from, and the experiences that led you to starting WallX. A: My name is Richmond Ogigai, and I’m the cofounder of WallX Africa. I’m originally from Lagos, Nigeria. I started out building WallX because of a real situation that took place at some point in 2019. I had seen firsthand the experiences of small business owners when it comes to…

Introduction Thanks to a rapid increase in internet accessibility, cutting-edge technological breakthroughs, and a surge in consumer trends that are transforming the way businesses function, the African digital economy is currently experiencing a tremendous boom in growth. It is crucial to ensure top-notch software quality assurance and testing, since technology is…

Sometimes, when you embark upon a great and ambitious project, you can feel like you’re holding a proverbial crocodile by the tail. Sometimes, you find yourself in Northern Ghana literally holding a crocodile by the tail. — It’s heavy and feels a bit rubbery, but is infinitely preferable to the open jaws on the other side which you hope will remain on the other side. But first, we have to get there.

For Africa Day Once lived a glorious giant eagle, so powerful Such powerful nothing could comprehend: going places and conquering Touring across mighty seas and oceans. Moving, hovering the world — no map, no fears This great eagle rovers across the rivers and oceans without an atom of fear. The…

This is a weird fact - Although I've always been an introvert, somehow I used to know a lot of people in my university. And most people knew me as well. I was that person you walked with, and after fifteen minutes, I'd have greeted about fifteen people. OK, that's…

The first 5 days of this past February were filled with nothing but all kinds of art; film, music, theatre, literature, poetry, dance… all of it created by young, creative, African artists present at the Tukutane Dar Arts Week from 1st February to 5th February 2023. Tukutane Dar simply translates…

Reality is just another illusion. What is a state that cannot prioritize the welfare of her citizen? An entity whose people are bound to poverty in their millions, submerged in non-stop frustration. Her land is corrupted by the very elect of its society, injustice at peak. Divinely blessed with human…

As a child, I observed my mom host visitors/guests in our house. I've mentioned this before. Several relatives came to stay with us whenever they had accommodation issues. One example was a family friend of ours who left her marital home for reasons best known to her. She pleaded with…

The removal of the subsidy presents an opportunity for comprehensive economic transformation The most unbiased reaction to President Bola Tinubu’s inaugural speech came from the markets; the stock market did a record rally — its highest jump after an inaugural speech by an elected Nigerian president — whilst Nigeria’s dollar…