Africa Tech Conversations
Building the future from the continent
Deep conversations with the founders, investors, and policymakers shaping technology across Africa — from Lagos fintech to Nairobi logistics to Accra healthtech.
Episodes(5 available)
How Lagos Became Africa's Payments Capital — and What Comes Next
Lagos hosts more payments startups per capita than almost any city in the world. How that happened, what the infrastructure layer looks like from the inside, and what the second chapter of Nigerian fintech will build on top of it.
Feeding 60 Million: How Kenyan Agritech is Reinventing the Smallholder Farm
Kenya has 7 million smallholder farms, each averaging 0.9 hectares. A new generation of agritech startups is using satellite data, AI, and mobile money to give small farmers access to tools previously only available to agribusiness. What's working and what remains hard.
The Ghana EdTech Wave: Building for Students the Global Platforms Ignore
Global EdTech platforms like Coursera and Khan Academy serve millions in Africa — but mostly middle-class students with reliable internet. A new wave of Ghanaian EdTech startups is building for the other 90%: offline-first, local-curriculum, mobile-native.
Climate Tech in South Africa: Building Solutions When the Grid Is Already Broken
South Africa's load-shedding crisis — up to 12 hours of daily power cuts — has created one of the world's most urgent testbeds for energy tech. How startups are building solar microgrids, battery storage, and energy management tools at a speed and scale that Western markets haven't needed.
Rwanda's Startup Ecosystem: Small Country, Big Ambitions
Rwanda has positioned itself as Africa's Singapore — investing in infrastructure, ease of doing business, and talent development on a scale unusual for a country of 14 million. What's real and what's marketing.
About This Show
Africa Tech Conversations is a long-form interview show exploring the people and ideas driving technology adoption across Sub-Saharan Africa. Hosted in partnership with founders from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa, each episode goes deep on one company, one trend, or one pressing challenge — mobile money, last-mile logistics, digital health, agricultural tech, and regulatory innovation. The counternarrative to every "Africa rising" cliché.
Host
Amara Diallo
Amara is a Ghanaian tech journalist and investor based between Accra and London. She has interviewed over 200 African founders and is a regular speaker at AfricArena and Disrupt Africa.
Show Details
- Episodes
- 54
- Frequency
- Weekly
- Category
- Technology
- Language
- English