Interesting Reads
Explore thought-provoking articles, deep dives, interesting reads, and long-form content that goes beyond the surface. Perfect for readers who want to explore tech in a more engaging way.
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More Kenyans Are Earning More — But 4 in 10 Are Still Borrowing to Eat
Old Mutual's 2025 report shows Kenyans are more financially optimistic but still stretched thin by debt and rising costs. Option…
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Africa Is Building More Developers Than Anywhere Else. Women Are Still Being Left Behind.
BCG says Africa's developer base is growing 21% a year. Women are largely missing from that growth. Kenya is a…
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A Global Study Just Ranked Kenya’s Internet Freedom at 52 Out of 100. Here’s What That Means.
Kenya scored the same as the UK on internet freedom: 52 out of 100. A new 171-country study by Cloudwards…
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Kenya Mobile Money: We Already Ran the Experiment. It’s Time to Act on the Results.
Kenya's 2020 free mobile money experiment added 2.8 million users. The data is clear. It's time to go back.
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Africa’s Ride-Hailing Boom Has a 97% Male Problem
Kenya’s ride-hailing sector has a 97% male dominance. Beyond the app, structural barriers are locking women out of a billion-dollar…
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Kenya’s $1 Billion Gig Economy Is Built on Workers Who Have No Plan B
While Kenya over-regulates ride-hailing, an unregulated KES 132 billion social e-commerce sector secretly dominates 42% of the local gig economy.
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The ‘Always-On’ Epidemic: Why Your Weekend Hustle is a Cybersecurity Nightmare
Our inability to disconnect from work is not just driving burnout; it is the ultimate cybersecurity vulnerability hackers actively exploit
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MacBook Neo is doing exactly what I predicted, and Windows OEMs should be worried
Last week, I threw out what I knew would be a controversial take: the MacBook Neo wouldn’t just sell well,…
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Why Equity Bank only has two tellers serving everyone
If you’ve walked into an Equity Bank branch, you are intimately familiar with the setup. You take your queue ticket,…
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Safaricom Will Hide Your Name and Phone Number When You Send M-Pesa—Everything Explained!
Starting March 24, M-Pesa will hide your phone number in Send Money notifications. Here's everything that's changing.
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Why Safaricom is trading M-PESA secrets for Indosat’s AI brain
Safaricom and Indosat have signed a strategic MoU swapping M-PESA operational secrets for predictive AI frameworks. Here is what the…
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The Spec Sheet is Dead: How African Tech Media is Rewriting the Rules of Engagement
Tech media in Africa is evolving beyond specs. Discover how contextualised , omnichannel storytelling builds compounding trust. Read the full…
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Shrinkflation vs. Stealth Taxes: How Tech Giants are Hiding 2026 Price Hikes
Global memory chip shortages are forcing smartphone brands into stealth price hikes and hardware shrinkflation. Will your favourite survive 2026?
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Galaxy S26’s AI ambition comes with a multi-cloud privacy cost
Samsung has long been the king of the “more is more” philosophy when it comes to software features. But with…
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The Galaxy S26 satellite snub: Why Africa is still waiting for a connection to the stars
Africa has always lived with a strange connectivity contradiction. Drive a few kilometres outside Nairobi, out past the bypasses and…
