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In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية Good morning. Welcome to another week. The English Premier League has kicked off. While it wasn’t the best start to the campaign, we (Man United) still had it better than a certain fanbase that outspent us—embarrassing, but yes, I want to take things to a new low. All protests against this logic will fall on deaf ears. In Silicon Valley, tech bros are fighting about whose AI research model is better; the folks at Inherent say theirs is. Who knows? Anthropic could just be cooling off on research to convince investors that it’s not trying to sell them a bubble ahead of its public listing. Keep scrolling to see what we’ve got for you today in African tech. —Emmanuel Become smarter about tech and commerce in Francophone Africa, and the policies shaping them. Read previous editions here first and subscribe below. Subscribe Cell C in talks with Starlink, Amazon Leo SA’s Gauteng wants to know who gig drivers are IN Groupe eyes expansive role in Kenya Malawi mulls tax relief for smartphones, Internet World Wide Web 3 Job Openings Telecoms Cell C wants Starlink and Amazon Leo in its network Image Source: Tenor Cell C, the South African mobile operator, is borrowing infrastructure to connect its customers to the Internet. Now, it wants to add space to the mix. What happened? Jorge Mendes, Cell C’s chief executive officer, said the company is in talks with satellite Internet service providers (ISPs) Starlink and Amazon Leo about reselling their broadband services to its customers and potentially offering direct-to-device connectivity. What would this mean? If this happens, Cell C subscribers could possibly connect to the Internet in two ways: through terrestrial networks, such as mobile towers, or satellite networks that beam connectivity from space. Cell C already relies on MTN and Vodacom’s network infrastructure instead of operating its own. The operator could use satellite broadband to reach places where building fibre or mobile towers is expensive, or resell satellite Internet to customers who need connectivity outside its traditional coverage. The space race is getting crowded: The move comes shortly after Herotel, a South African ISP, signed a distribution deal with Amazon Leo. Herotel said it plans to sell Amazon Leo’s satellite service under the ‘Evry’ brand from 2027. The deal, however, is non-exclusive, so other companies can also partner with Amazon. Traditional telecom companies have been eyeing partnerships with satellite Internet firms to extend broadband reach, with potentially lower capital expenditure—compared to fibre—and arguably better Internet access. Starlink reached a similar agreement in the Democratic Republic of Congo and launched in August. Despite talks with Cell C on a potential collaboration, Elon Musk-owned Starlink still hasn’t secured an operating licence in South Africa—its attempt marred by local rules keeping it out and disagreements that have turned into a political fight. South Africa’s connectivity market is heating up: MTN and Vodacom, South Africa’s two largest telecom firms, are also testing their own satellite-to-phone services through partnerships with US firm Lynk Global and AST Spacemobile, although neither has launched commercially. The coming months could get very interesting, as more players look to space for the next way to keep South Africans connected. Every business owner needs to watch this. The business questions you Google, answered by experts. Watch for free. Ride-hailing South African province Gauteng wants to know who your Uber, Bolt, or Wanatu driver is Image Source: Tenor South Africa’s e-hailing rules are moving from the app store to the government database. Gauteng, the smallest yet wealthiest province in South Africa, wants every e-hailing driver in the province to register on its public transport system—and foreign drivers will have to identify themselves as such. What happened? Gauteng’s Department of Transport is asking ride-hailing operators, including Uber, Bolt, Wanatu (a local operator), and inDrive, to register their drivers on the Gauteng Integrated Public Transport Administration System (GIPTAS). The system stores information on public transport operators, routes, licences, and conflicts. Drivers will submit details including their Professional Driving Permit, vehicle registration, and ID number. Foreign drivers without South African ID numbers can use a Traffic Register Number, a profile created on the national road-traffic system for people without the country’s 13-digit ID. State of play: The registration drive follows South Africa’s amended National Land Transport Amendment Act, passed in 2025, which formally brought e-hailing into the country’s public transport system. The wider rules mandated ride-hailing companies, local and foreign, to secure e-hailing licences, brand their vehicles, and install panic buttons for passenger safety. However, Gauteng hasn’t set a specific deadline for ride-hailing companies and drivers to comply. Explain like I’m new here: Gauteng is the inland province at the heart of South Africa’s economic engine. It includes Johannesburg, the country’s main financial and industrial centre, and Pretoria, the administrative capital. So this is not a small-town transport experiment: it is happening in the province where a huge share of the country’s business, commuting, and airport traffic converges. Between the lines: Gauteng is also the country’s biggest ride-hailing battleground. Uber held an estimated 60–65% of Johannesburg’s market in 2025, with Bolt taking most of the remainder, according to Bobby Ramagwede, chief executive officer of the country’s Automobile Association. That makes the province a high-stakes test of whether South Africa can bring app-based transport into the same regulatory net as taxis and buses without making it harder for drivers to earn a living—or for passengers to find a ride. Zoom out: The government says it needs a clear record of who is operating on its roads; however, ride-hailing platforms are still working through the practicalities of feeding driver data into a new system. For passengers, registration could offer some reassurance, creating a nationally enforceable way to track down wrongdoers in cases of incidents, a possible sigh of relief in South Africa’s torrid history of ride-hailing violence. Moonshot is back! Moonshot 2026 is coming! Join us at the National Theatre, Lagos on October 28 & 29 for two
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Cet article est aussi disponible en français <!– In partnership with –> First published on August 23, 2026 If you start a business in a normal environment, you face a very simple but brutal problem: you must convince people to give you more money for your product than it costs you to provide it. If you fail, you run out of money and stop being a business. We call this bootstrapping, but it’s really just doing business. But if you start a business in an environment suddenly flooded with foreign venture capital, your problem changes. Your job now includes convincing customers to pay for your product now, and doing the same for investors to fund your runway later. Over the last few years, the Kenyan tech ecosystem got very good at the second job, while systematically forgetting how to do the first. Here is a slightly uncomfortable theory about what happened to Kenyan tech founders; they stopped bootstrapping not because they suddenly lost their drive, but because a localised glut of capital made bootstrapping economically irrational. Continuous funding replaced the constraints of early-stage survival, stripping the ecosystem of the hunger, angst and resourcefulness needed to digitise a frontier market. The visceral fear of missing payroll gave way to the bureaucratic anxiety of managing a burn rate. Investors are now quietly realising that the capital meant to empower Kenyan founders ended up domesticating them and turning scrappy entrepreneurs into highly paid managers of fundamentally unprofitable logistics subsidies. Next Wave continues after this ad. Founders. Investors. Policymakers. Enterprise leaders. Moonshot 2026 brings together the people shaping Africa’s technology ecosystem across AI, commerce, climate, enterprise, and culture. Spotlight your brand today. Secure Your Spot! The tragedy of the well-funded pivot If you are a venture capitalist with a mandate to deploy capital in East Africa, you want to fund scalable technology. If you are a Kenyan consumer, you want cheap consumer goods. For a brief, glorious period, the industry decided that the solution to both desires was to give tech founders tens of millions of dollars to subsidise the delivery of those goods. The structural reality of rural and informal delivery in East Africa is that it is extraordinarily expensive, highly fragmented and margin-poor. But when a startup has $20 million, it doesn’t need to prove that a customer will pay a profitable margin today. It only needs to prove top-line growth to the next series investor. You can defer the reality of unit economics for a very long time if your charts point up and to the right. To see how this plays out when the music stops, you only need to look at the recent mortality rate of Kenya’s most celebrated disruptors: Copia Global: This rural e-commerce platform raised $123 million across eight funding rounds. The business model was, essentially, to exchange global venture capital for the privilege of subsidising the delivery of consumer goods to remote populations. When the macroeconomic environment shifted and the company could no longer attract capital to maintain its high-burn operations, it collapsed into administration under KPMG, jeopardising over 1,000 jobs. Sendy: Targeting to streamline informal supply chains, Sendy raised $20 million from impact investors. Over five years, the company executed multiple expensive pivots—from household package delivery to long-haul B2B logistics—before simply running out of cash to subsidise its operations and shutting down. Twiga Foods: Twiga raised massive amounts of capital on the premise of organising smallholder farmers, only to realise that working with small farmers is fundamentally unprofitable. They pivoted to large farms, fired their in-house sales team, shifted to commission agents, fired those agents for underperformance, and scrapped their in-house logistics. Lipa Later: A celebrated Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) fintech that was placed under administration in March 2025, highlighting the fatal mismatch between the high cost of capital and local consumer default realities. Kune Foods: Raised over $1 million for a food delivery model that solved a non-existent problem and fundamentally clashed with local consumer habits, burning through its runway before shutting down. The Kenyan tech ecosystem absorbed $638 million in 2024 and an astounding $984 million in 2025. Yet, the return profile looks increasingly bleak. Startup shutdowns across Africa jumped 50% in 2025, erasing $52 million in investor capital. Lost hunger Investors are openly noting that the scrappy, default-alive energy that characterised early Kenyan tech has evaporated. There are specific reasons why this hunger dissipated, and they are entirely rational responses to the incentive structures created by venture capital: Bootstrapping aligns a founder’s survival directly with the customer’s willingness to pay. Venture capital aligns the founder’s survival with the investor’s willingness to fund. The normalisation of high founder salaries at the pre-seed stages has completely altered the risk-reward calculus. When a founder is drawing a comfortable corporate salary to run an unprofitable business, the existential dread that forces true innovation disappears. Driven by the need to attract global capital, founders prioritised building businesses that pattern-match with Silicon Valley trends rather than addressing local realities. Deploying an app that introduces QR code menus to a roadside food vendor (a kibanda) looks highly innovative to a foreign capital allocator, but it adds zero tangible value to a price-sensitive local consumer base. Access to excessive early capital encourages founders to skip the crucial “no-code” validation phases, defaulting immediately to aggressive scaling and large tech teams. This results in massive burn rates and bloated overheads, complete with lavish company offsites. Capital deployment is often so inefficient that cynical local market observers have begun likening heavily funded ventures to fraudulent money conduits. The persistent assumption that the sheer scale of the Kenyan informal sector will eventually fix negative margins has proven fatal. Instead of estimating realistic customer acquisition costs against the local demographic’s actual purchasing power, founders relied on continuous funding simply to maintain daily operations. The mathematics of customer acquisition costing more than the customer’s lifetime value cannot be outrun forever, even in an emerging market. The market correction currently tearing through Nairobi is painful, but structurally necessary.
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Table of contents When is the Samsung Galaxy event? How to watch the Samsung Galaxy event What will Samsung announce at the event? Samsung Galaxy S26 FE expected specs Could Samsung also announce the Galaxy Tab S12? What Samsung has confirmed so far Samsung is holding a Galaxy Event on August 27, 2026. The company has not named the phone yet, but everything points to the Galaxy S26 FE. Samsung says the event will bring the core Galaxy S26 experience, from camera to AI, to a wider audience. This guide covers the event time in Nigeria, how to watch it, what the Galaxy S26 FE is expected to offer, and how it compares to the Galaxy S25 FE. You will also find the price rumours and what else could show up at the event. When is the Samsung Galaxy event? Samsung confirmed the date as August 27, 2026. The event starts at 9:00 p.m. in South Korea. Here is what that means in different regions: South Korea: 9:00 p.m. KST, August 27 Nigeria: 1:00 p.m. WAT, August 27 United States (Eastern): 8:00 a.m. EDT, August 27 United Kingdom: 1:00 p.m. BST, August 27 If you are in Nigeria, mark your calendar for 1 p.m. on August 27. How to watch the Samsung Galaxy event Samsung will stream the event live on Samsung.com and on its official YouTube channel. You do not need a ticket or an invite. Just log on at the time above and watch. What will Samsung announce at the event? Samsung’s official invite does not name a phone. It only says the event will introduce the newest addition to the Galaxy S26 family, and that the device will bring core Galaxy S26 experiences in camera and AI, along with the latest One UI. That phone is almost certainly the Galaxy S26 FE. Samsung already mentioned a new S26 FE during its July earnings call, and leaked certification filings, benchmark listings, and marketing images all point to the same device. Samsung Galaxy S26 FE expected specs 1. Design and display: Leaks suggest the S26 FE will keep a familiar look but carry the newer S26 design language. Expect: A 6.7-inch AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate Gorilla Glass Victus+ protection and an aluminium frame IP68 water and dust resistance Colours in Blueberry, Pistachio, and Graphite 2. Performance and software: The processor is where this phone should show its biggest change. Leaks and a benchmark listing point to Samsung’s own Exynos 2500 chip, a jump from the Exynos 2400 in the S25 FE. Exynos 2500 chipset, based on leaks and a benchmark listing 8GB RAM, with storage options at 128GB and 256GB Android 17 with One UI 9 out of the box Up to seven years of OS updates, based on leaked marketing material 3. Camera and Galaxy AI: The camera numbers look almost unchanged from the S25 FE. Leaks point to: 50MP main camera 12MP ultrawide camera 8MP telephoto camera with 3x zoom 12MP front camera Samsung has already named the camera and AI as the two big themes for this event. Expect more focus on software features like Circle to Search, Now Brief, and Bixby than on new camera hardware. 4. Battery and charging: 4,900mAh battery 45W wired charging, supported by certification filings Wireless charging, though the speed is not yet known A leaked claim of around 50 hours of typical use, still unverified 5. Cost: Samsung has not announced a price yet. A French retail leak from Dealabs points to price increases over the S25 FE: Could Samsung also announce the Galaxy Tab S12? Samsung already confirmed the Galaxy Tab S12 as a product for the second half of 2026, but it has not linked the tablet to this event. The August 27 invite only mentions a new Galaxy S26 phone, and separate reports suggest the Tab S12 could launch in October instead. Treat the Tab S12 as a possible surprise, not a sure thing at this event. What Samsung has confirmed so far Confirmed: The event is on August 27, 2026, streamed on Samsung.com and YouTube A new Galaxy S26 family phone will be announced Camera, Galaxy AI, and One UI will be central to the event The Galaxy Tab S12 is a real, upcoming Samsung product, just not confirmed for this event Still unconfirmed: The Galaxy S26 FE name itself Final specs, storage options, and colours Price in any market, including Nigeria Preorder and sale dates outside the France leak Samsung is expected to settle most of these questions live on August 27. True scale demands moving beyond surface-level integrations to robust execution. We’ve filtered the noise out of Moonshot 2026, optimising the conference strictly for high-calibre connections between startup founders, global financial operators, enterprise leaders and individuals rewiring Africa’s technical frameworks. Get 20% off Early Bird tickets for a limited time.
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