Africa Tech Summit
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African fintech, from the operating room.
Africa Tech Summit Podcast turns summit-stage sessions into practical briefings on African technology markets. Its strongest episodes follow founders, investors, and payments operators as they explain cross-border money movement, mobile wallets, stablecoins, regulation, and the pressure to build businesses that work in local conditions.
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Africa Tech Summit Podcast works like a recorded corridor between conference panels, investor conversations, and founder war stories. The show is formal enough to stay useful, but loose enough to preserve the texture of a live room. Recent episodes concentrate on African fintech, especially the systems that move money across borders. That focus gives the show a practical spine. Discussions return often to liquidity, treasury, settlement speed, mobile wallets, on-ramps, off-ramps, regulation, and the question of what actually makes a payment product usable for a business or consumer. Cross-border payments are treated as infrastructure, not as a buzzword. A conversation with Wale Afolabi of PESA, for example, turns quickly toward partner relationships, pre-funding, liquidity management, and the way trust can matter as much as software. Panel episodes broaden the frame. Speakers from companies such as Crisscross, Circle, Conduit, Flutterwave, MoneyPoint, APSA, Tola Mobile, Sorted Wallet, PhoneBank, Mansa, Mento Labs, and Minipay appear in conversations about supplier payments, stablecoins, mobile-first economies, and the overlap between traditional financial rails and newer blockchain-based tools. The show does not pretend these systems are simple. It is comfortable staying inside the details. One thread asks why businesses need faster alternatives to bank wires when paying suppliers abroad. Another asks why mobile money and stablecoin wallets may be complementary rather than competing products. Another examines how Web3 companies are trying to serve users on older devices, prepaid balances, and cash-based payment habits. Venture capital appears with the same operational lens. The show asks whether Silicon Valley models fit the continent, then moves toward fundraising discipline, profitability, hiring, currency exposure, and unit economics. That makes the podcast useful beyond fintech alone. It is also a record of how African technology operators talk when they are comparing constraints, not just announcing ambitions. The live format means some episodes repeat introductions, sponsor notes, and summit calls to action. The tradeoff is access to candid, specific discussion from people close to the work. For listeners already familiar with startups, finance, or emerging-market infrastructure, it offers grounded perspective on where African tech is becoming more connected, more regulated, and more demanding.
Made for: Built for founders, investors, fintech operators, policy-adjacent listeners, and market builders who already understand startup language and want practical context on African technology markets.
What sets it apart: Its advantage is the live summit format: speakers compare real infrastructure choices, partner dependencies, and market constraints in public, with less polish and more operational specificity than a standard studio interview.
Africa Tech Summit is the leading event series focused on African tech and investment with Summits globally. Africa Tech Summit Podcast continues the conversation with industry leaders, investors, and corporates providing you with insights from across the African tech scene.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Africa Tech Summit Podcast makes African payment infrastructure legible through candid founder interviews and live panels grounded in operational detail.
Africa Tech Summit Podcast turns interviews and live conference panels into practical conversations about building and moving money across African markets.
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A live Nairobi conversation on cross-border payments, liquidity, and the partner relationships that keep them moving.
Recorded live at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi, this conversation with Wale Afolabi, co-founder and CTO at Persepear, Payments Limited, keeps its attention on how Pesa grew from a cross-border payments company serving the retail market, with immigrants and migrants in view.
A live Nairobi panel on African cross-border payments and the practical frictions around them.
Recorded live at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi, this panel follows Pascal Okeke as he guides a practical discussion on cross-border payments in Africa with Dr. Colleen Ziegwe, Yemi Lalawani, and Eric Wainana.
Stablecoins are framed through remittances, merchant payments, and a practical Nairobi toll example.
Africa Tech Summit Podcast turns a live Nairobi stage session into a focused look at stablecoins in Africa, where stability, innovation, and digital payments stay in view throughout.
A live founder-led panel on discipline, profitability, and the realities of building in African tech.
Africa Tech Summit Podcast turns a live London panel into a practical look at what it takes to build through currency pressure, hiring discipline, and tight unit economics.
A brisk Web3 discussion that keeps returning to payment rails, fraud, and how money moves.
Africa Tech Summit Connects uses Christian Duffus's Jamaica background to frame a practical look at Web3 and the payment rails beneath it. The episode stays close to the mechanics: low card penetration, carrier-led networks, pre-funded float, immutable payments, and the fraud…
Mortgage fintech from the field.
Mukami Wainaina, associate director at Novastar Ventures, explains that Fund Three is a "people and planet" fund aimed at mass-market solutions with climate resilience, emissions reduction or biodiversity benefits.
Recorded live at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi, the episode opens with the host inviting Wale Afolabi to introduce himself.
Pascal Okeke opens a live panel at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi and sets the frame around cross-border payments in Africa.
This episode features a panel discussion at Africa Tech Summit exploring the realities and trends of venture capital investing in Africa, including debates on whether Silicon Valley models are suitable and how entrepreneurs access funding.
A panel discussion at Africa Tech Summit explores FinTech and payment trends in Africa, including mobile money, crypto regulations, and growth opportunities for 2025.
This episode features a panel discussion at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi where founders of Web3 companies discuss how they are building cryptocurrency wallets, stablecoin gateways, and fintech solutions to reshape financial infrastructure across Africa and other emerging markets.
Recorded live at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi, the episode opens with a fireside chat on stablecoins in Africa, framed around stability, innovation, and digital payments.
The episode starts with a live panel at Africa Tech Summit London, where the host sets a founder-led tone and invites quick introductions.
Andrew Fastage opens the episode by framing the future of Web3 across Africa.
This episode features an interview with Akshay Grover, CEO of Cellulant, discussing a deep dive into fintech and payments in Africa.
This episode explores crypto, decentralized finance (DeFi), and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in Africa with Carmelle Cadet, CEO of EMTECH, focusing on fintech regulation and modern central banking.
This episode features a panel discussion on the future of FoodTech and sustainability in Africa, focusing on reducing food waste and improving agricultural efficiency through technology.
This episode features an interview with Chijioke Dozie, CEO of Carbon, discussing the company's journey as a Nigerian fintech aiming to become a pan-African digital bank, including its operations, COVID-19 impact, and the broader mobile financial services landscape in Africa.
This episode features an interview with Jihan Abass, founder of Kenyan insurtech Lami Insurance, discussing how insurtech is digitizing traditional insurance in Africa and her journey from finance to entrepreneurship.