08/29/2026
When people talk about technology opportunities in Africa, the conversation often goes immediately to consumer apps.
But sitting at the Africa Business Investment Summit today made me think again about a much larger opportunity: the technology infrastructure businesses themselves will need as they grow.
Banking. Logistics. Healthcare. Government. Agriculture. Energy. HR. Payments. Operations.
Every growing industry eventually needs systems behind it.
And increasingly, those systems will be built with AI from the beginning.
For African technologists and entrepreneurs, that creates a very interesting question:
Instead of only asking what app we should build, what infrastructure will Africa's next 100,000 companies need?
That's a much bigger market.