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Your backstage pass to the tech industry - Welcome to "My Tech Story Africa" – where we bring you the latest in tech, business insights, and inspiring stories from innovators across the continent and beyond 🌍 Come and join us as we explore the incredible stories of Africa's most innovative tech leaders, and discover how you too can make your mark on the world of tech 🧡

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August 3, 202638 min

How Stablecoins Are Reshaping Global Finance | ft. Isaac Wabuge | Yellow Card

On this episode of "After Hours, in partnership with Tanqueray Africa," we speak with Isaac Wabuge, Country Manager & Growth Lead , Kenya &Uganda at Yellow Card whose career reads like a map of Africa's financial evolution , from agency banking at Equity Bank to merchant acquiring at Stanbic, to now building stablecoin infrastructure for cross-border payments.Isaac breaks down what stablecoins actually are and why they matter for Africa right now. He walks us through the real cost of legacy cross-border payments and makes the case for why near-instant, dollar-pegged digital currency is a genuine game-changer for traders moving money between Kenya and China, and for families sending remittances home.The conversation doesn't shy away from the harder questions. Isaac shares his stance on regulation, including Kenya's VASP Act and the global ripple effects of the U.S. Genius Act, and he's candid about the tension between compliance and innovation ,acknowledging that bigger players like Yellow Card can afford to champion regulation in ways smaller startups sometimes can't. He speaks openly about the grey-list status Kenya is working to shed, and why anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing aren't abstract concerns in a country that has lived through real attacks.Beyond payments, Isaac opens up about his 2022 run for parliamentary office, a bid that didn't end in a win but reshaped how he thinks about leadership, trust, and public service. He traces his path from a childhood steeped in political history, to activism as a teenager, to landing his first banking job almost by accident and how failure, more than success, has been his most consistent teacher. To keep up with Isaac Wabuge , Check out his linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaac-wabugeCheck out Yellowcard: https://yellowcard.io/ __________________________________________________________________Join Alice as she explores the world of tech and shares impactful stories with guests on My Tech Story Africa!Subscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytechstoryafrica💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-tech-story-africa♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mytechstoryafricaJoin our community: [https://www.mtsafrica.co/join]Interested in being a guest on the podcast? Apply here: https://forms.gle/ffAniezzFHoEvhPY7

July 20, 202630 min

What Global Mobility Companies Get Wrong About Africa ft. Chisom Anoke | Yango

On this episode of "After Hours, in partnership with Tanqueray Africa," we speak with Chisom Anoke, a mobility leader at Yango, about what it actually takes to build a transportation business across a continent where the infrastructure, the regulation, and the customer are all still catching up to the smartphone. Mobility in Africa looks like a race between global giants such as Uber and Bolt for market share. However, Chisom argues the real race is happening somewhere else entirely , it's in outdated laws still governing roads built for a different era, in a customer base that has to be taught a service exists before it can be sold to them, and in market metrics that lie to you the moment you read them at a national level instead of a city one. Nigeria's GDP per capita says one thing. Lagos says another. Botswana and Namibia look unwinnable on paper and outperform in practice. In this conversation, Chisom talks about why Yango doesn't compete with the taxi companies already operating in a market, but licenses its technology to them instead, turning thousands of individual drivers into a handful of manageable partnerships. He gets into the unit economics most riders never think about: how two cents saved per kilometer compounds into a driver's ability to actually make a living, how fleet renewal financing changes the math on a 15-year-old car, and why Yango backed an EV push that's put electric boda bodas across Kigali's streets. He breaks down the tension boiling over between drivers and platforms across the continent right now, what "fair" driver earnings actually require behind the scenes to hold true, and the belief driving his own career: that the goal was never to help African markets catch up to somebody else's mobility story, but to help them build their own , the way M-Pesa didn't wait for a Western equivalent to exist first. To keep up with Chisom Anoke , Check out his linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisom-anokeCheck out Yango: https://yango.com/ __________________________________________________________________Join Alice as she explores the world of tech and shares impactful stories with guests on My Tech Story Africa!Subscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytechstoryafrica💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-tech-story-africa♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mytechstoryafricaJoin our community: [https://www.mtsafrica.co/join]Interested in being a guest on the podcast? Apply here: https://forms.gle/ffAniezzFHoEvhPY7

July 9, 202630 min

The Real Reason Banks Keep Saying No | ft. Christabel Ojuok (Nesti)

On this episode of "After Hours, in partnership with Tanqueray Africa," we speak with Christabel Ojuok, co-founder of Nesti, about what it actually takes to build credit access for the 86% of Kenyans the mortgage system was never built for. Nesti started as a property and mortgage marketplace, matching customers with affordable home loans and vetted properties, cutting house-hunting from months to minutes. Then a pattern emerged: salaried customers sailed through, while gig workers and entrepreneurs, despite affording the exact same repayments, got buried in documentation and rejected. The problem wasn't affordability. It was that the system couldn't read their income. In this conversation, Christabel talks about what it took to walk away from a working marketplace model and rebuild around a harder problem, why she left seven years of structured corporate life at Knight Frank for the chaos of building in a startup, and what she's learned sitting across the table from prospective buyers who keep hitting the same wall. She breaks down the "rent score," an alternative credit profile built entirely from consistent rent payments, and why she believes that data is just as reliable as a payslip. She gets into the chicken-and-egg problem of building trust with banks before you have scale, the real reason real estate has been slower than almost any other industry to adopt tech, and the single belief about who "deserves" to own a home that she's trying to dismantle: that it was ever meant to be reserved for people earning a fixed salary in the first place. To keep up with Christabel Ojuok , Check out her linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christabelojuok/Check out Nesti: https://nesti.africa/ __________________________________________________________________Join Alice as she explores the world of tech and shares impactful stories with guests on My Tech Story Africa!Subscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytechstoryafrica💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-tech-story-africa♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mytechstoryafricaJoin our community: [https://www.mtsafrica.co/join]Interested in being a guest on the podcast? Apply here: https://forms.gle/ffAniezzFHoEvhPY7

July 2, 202635 min

Collective Funding vs. Foreign Aid:Which Works? Ft. Jermaine Craig

On this episode of "After Hours, in partnership with Tanqueray Africa," we speak with Jermaine Craig, founder of Kwanda, about what it actually takes to build a collective fundraising model that survives contact with reality.Kwanda launched in February 2020 with a simple premise , pooling small monthly contributions from the African diaspora to fund social entrepreneurs on the continent. Then COVID hit and George Floyd's death sent thousands of people looking for ways to support Black communities, and Kwanda went from 200 members to 2,000 in three weeks. Two years later, he shut it down.In this conversation, Jermaine talks about what actually happened in the room when he decided to close Kwanda, why that relief didn't last, and what made him rebuild it smaller, simpler, and far more honest the second time around.He breaks down the difference between funding that comes with a savior complex and funding that comes with dignity, why transparency was the single word his community kept repeating back to him, and how a doctor named Tolani turned unused buildings into community clinics that have now treated over 8,000 patients in Nigeria on Kwanda's funding alone.He also gets into the uncomfortable 80% gap between what people say they'll commit to and what they actually do, why speed matters more than scale when deciding what to fund, and what he'd tell any diasporan who wants to come back and "fix" things on the continent without doing the work of listening first. To keep up with Jermaine Craig , Check out her linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jermainecraig/Check out Kwanda:https://kwanda.co/ __________________________________________________________________Join Alice as she explores the world of tech and shares impactful stories with guests on My Tech Story Africa!Subscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytechstoryafrica💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-tech-story-africa♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mytechstoryafricaJoin our community: [https://www.mtsafrica.co/join]Interested in being a guest on the podcast? Apply here: https://forms.gle/ffAniezzFHoEvhPY7

June 9, 202632 min

The Legal Reality of Scaling Businesses Across Fragmented African Markets ft. Mbula Nzuki

On this episode of "After Hours, in partnership with Tanqueray Africa," we speak with Mbula Nzuki, founder and managing partner of MN Legal, and convener of the MNL Africa Leadership Circle, about what it actually takes to build a law firm from scratch, do business across a fragmented continent, and create the kind of rooms where Africa's story gets written by Africans.Seven years ago, she built MN Legal around the things traditional law firms weren't offering: agility, tech-enablement, short turnaround times, and the freedom to operate across locations.That work, advising startups and businesses looking to scale across Africa, kept surfacing the same friction. Different legal systems, different regulations, wildly different costs ,sometimes the gap between a few hundred dollars and tens of thousands, just to set up in a new market. That frustration became the seed for the MNL Africa Leadership Circle.The Circle isn't a conference. It's a curated convening of senior business leaders, policymakers, investors, founders, and innovators built around one goal: real, documented outcomes. Every working group feeds into a white paper, because Mbula believes it's unforgivable to gather that much brilliance in one room and let it evaporate. The policy suggestions, the cross-continental conversations, the hard insights , all on record, so Africa's narrative gets shaped from the inside out.The conversation also gets into the legal questions that keep her sharp: AI, deepfakes, blockchain , not approached with fear, but with the urgency of someone who knows the law is always playing catch-up and that the gap can't stay open for long.Her read on Africa right now? The continent is awake. Young founders are building, populations are holding leaders accountable, and the ask has shifted from aid to equal partnership. Africa is the now and the future, and the people shaping it are already in the room.The MNL Africa Leadership Circle takes place on the 18th and 19th of June at Villa Rosa Kempinski, Nairobi. Visit https://mnlafrica.com/ for more details To keep up with Mbula Nzuki , Check out her linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbulanzuki/Check out MN Legal :https://www.mnlegal.net/__________________________________________________________________Join Alice as she explores the world of tech and shares impactful stories with guests on My Tech Story Africa!Subscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytechstoryafrica💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-tech-story-africa♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mytechstoryafricaJoin our community: [https://www.mtsafrica.co/join]Interested in being a guest on the podcast? Apply here: https://forms.gle/ffAniezzFHoEvhPY7

April 22, 20265 min

The Silent Identity War Locking Out the New Market

In a world where digital platforms are becoming the gateway to services, opportunities, and economic participation, businesses need to know exactly who they're dealing with. But when verification systems are too slow, too complex, or simply not built for African realities, real people get locked out and real businesses lose customers. Alice heads to the Africa Tech Summit 2026 to gain first-hand insight into how companies are rethinking digital identity and trust for African markets, where documentation is inconsistent, device quality varies, and the stakes of getting verification wrong , in either direction, are high. She speaks with Deji Amund, Strategic Partnerships Lead at MetaMap, and Agnes Anyango, Sales Executive at Kagoo, two companies working at the intersection of identity verification and AI-powered business intelligence. MetaMap is helping businesses verify users faster and smarter, building flexible flows that reduce friction for legitimate users while keeping bad actors out. Kagoo is leveraging AI to help businesses understand their customers more deeply, from financial health reporting to demand forecasting, so they can make better decisions and grow with confidence. Together, they make the case that the real infrastructure challenge in Africa's digital economy isn't just about building products , it's about building systems that understand the people using them, in the real conditions they live in. __________________________________________________________________Join Alice as she explores the world of tech and shares impactful stories with guests on My Tech Story Africa!Subscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytechstoryafrica💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-tech-story-africa♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mytechstoryafricaJoin our community: [https://www.mtsafrica.co/join]Interested in being a guest on the podcast? Apply here: https://forms.gle/ffAniezzFHoEvhPY7

April 15, 20266 min

The Invisible Infrastructure Behind Every Payment

In a world where digital payments have become part of how money moves every day, small merchants, roadside stores and growing businesses depend on transactions that simply work.But when systems go down, networks fail and payment infrastructure can't keep up with demand , who's doing the work to keep commerce moving?Alice heads to the Africa Tech Summit 2026 to gain firsthand insight into how the builders behind Africa’s payment infrastructure are tackling challenges around reliability, scale, and fragmentation on the ground.She speaks with Bemigho Awala, Communications Professional at Moniepoint, and Obinna Michael, Account Executive at Pawapay,two companies operating at the infrastructure layer of Africa’s payments ecosystem.Moniepoint is powering payments for businesses on the ground, helping merchants accept transactions, access credit, and grow with confidence. Pawapay is connecting mobile money systems across more than 20 African markets, so businesses can accept payments without the complexity of integrating every provider individually.Together, they make the case that the real fintech revolution isn't just about flashy products it's about building systems that work quietly, consistently, and at scale.To keep up with Bemigho Awala , Check out his linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/bemigho-awalaCheck out Moniepoint :https://moniepoint.com/To keep up with Obinna Michael , Check out his linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/obinna-awuzudike/Check out Pawa Pay:https://www.pawapay.io/__________________________________________________________________Join Alice as she explores the world of tech and shares impactful stories with guests on My Tech Story Africa!Subscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytechstoryafrica💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-tech-story-africa♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mytechstoryafricaJoin our community: [https://www.mtsafrica.co/join]Interested in being a guest on the podcast? Apply here: https://forms.gle/ffAniezzFHoEvhPY7

April 8, 20266 min

Inside Africa’s $1 Trillion Payment Problem

In a world where sending money across borders should be effortless, cross-border payments remain one of the most expensive and fragmented parts of the global financial system , but how are African businesses navigating that complexity, and who is building the infrastructure to fix it?Alice heads to the Africa Tech Summit 2026 to find out firsthand how the rails beneath global commerce are being rebuilt and why Africa is at the center of that shift.She speaks with Malaika Ademola, VP of Global Payments at Fincra, and Kirill Gertman, CEO of Conduit, two founders building the behind-the-scenes infrastructure that powers cross-border transactions across the continent and beyond.Together, they unpack why a simple payment can cost up to eight percent in transaction fees, why settlements still take days, and how fragmented financial systems continue to create friction for businesses trading globally. More importantly, they share how they're solving it through API-first platforms, embedded payment infrastructure, virtual accounts in major currencies, and the growing role of stablecoins as an alternative to traditional banking rails.To keep up with Malaika Ademola , Check out her linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/malaika-ademola-majekodunmi/Check out Fincra :https://fincra.com/To keep up with Kirill Gertman, Check out his linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirillgertman/Check out Conduit :https://conduitpay.com/__________________________________________________________________Join Alice as she explores the world of tech and shares impactful stories with guests on My Tech Story Africa!Subscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytechstoryafrica💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-tech-story-africa♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mytechstoryafricaJoin our community: [https://www.mtsafrica.co/join]Interested in being a guest on the podcast? Apply here: https://forms.gle/ffAniezzFHoEvhPY7

March 27, 202636 min

The High Cost of Ignoring Data in African Tech Markets ft. Serigne Fall

On this episode of "After Hours, in partnership with Tanqueray Africa," we speak with Serigne Fall, the founder of LOOKA Research, a company focused on solving one of Africa’s most overlooked challenges in tech, research operations.Drawing from firsthand experience inside research agencies, he breaks down why, despite having strong frameworks and smart consultants, many companies still struggle to generate meaningful insights.We explore why research is often treated as a “nice-to-have” rather than essential infrastructure, especially among startups navigating tight budgets and pressure to move fast. Instead of pushing for expensive, large-scale studies, LOOKA Research champions an iterative approach: small, continuous feedback loops that help businesses validate ideas, avoid costly mistakes, and move with greater clarity.The conversation also challenges a common founder mindset, that research must be expensive to be valuable. In reality, even simple actions like speaking to a handful of users or applying “The Mom Test” can offer powerful direction. It’s not always about spending more money, but about being intentional with time and curiosity. We also dive into the evolving role of AI in research, highlighting its power to speed up data collection and analysis, while cautioning against biases that can arise from incomplete or unrepresentative datasets, particularly in African contexts.To keep up with Serigne Fall, Check out his linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/serigne-fall/Check out LOOKA Research :https://www.linkedin.com/company/getlookaresearch/ __________________________________________________________________Join Alice as she explores the world of tech and shares impactful stories with guests on My Tech Story Africa!Subscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytechstoryafrica💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-tech-story-africa♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mytechstoryafricaJoin our community: [https://www.mtsafrica.co/join]Interested in being a guest on the podcast? Apply here: https://forms.gle/ffAniezzFHoEvhPY7

March 23, 202634 min

Pitch Decks Over Relationships :The Startup Mistake Every Founder Makes ft. Will Green

On this episode of My Tech Story Africa, Alice Kanjejo sits down with Will Green , entrepreneur, angel investor, and ecosystem builder with over 20 years of experience working across South Africa and the globe .Will opens up about why relationships, not pitch decks, are the real currency of the startup world. From the origins of his now-iconic Will Green's Walk , a Friday morning hike up Lion's Head that doubles as a networking powerhouse , to his philosophy that the future of company building will be born out of intentional communities, Will challenges founders to rethink how they show up, connect, and grow.The conversation dives deep into what separates thriving founder communities from glorified WhatsApp groups, why collaboration will always outpace competition in African ecosystems, and how the continent's relational-first culture is both a unique strength and an untapped competitive advantage. Will also unpacks one of entrepreneurship's most uncomfortable truths: that sales is not a dirty word it is the growth hack that most founders overlook while chasing strategy and hype.On the investor side, Will draws a powerful analogy between a founder-investor relationship and a marriage , built on communication, transparency through the highs and the lows, and the often-forgotten practice of celebrating milestones.He also speaks candidly about Africa's capital gap, the limitations of the traditional VC model on the continent, and why strategic capital , the kind that comes with customers — is the most powerful accelerator a founder can access.To keep up with Will Green check out his LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/willgreen/Check out Co.lab :https://www.linkedin.com/company/co-laboration/Shot at Workshop17 :https://www.workshop17.co.za/ __________________________________________________________________Join Alice as she explores the world of tech and shares impactful stories with guests on My Tech Story Africa!Subscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytechstoryafrica💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-tech-story-africa♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mytechstoryafricaJoin our community: [https://www.mtsafrica.co/join]Interested in being a guest on the podcast? Apply here: https://forms.gle/ffAniezzFHoEvhPY7