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

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 However, Chisom argues the real race is happening somewhere else entirely , it's in outdated laws still governing roads built for a different era, in a customer base that has to be taught a service exists before it can be sold to them, and in market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

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

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

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

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