We help global organisations navigate the continent with clarity, conviction, and context.
Our work is at the intersection of technology, finance, culture, and strategy — turning complexity into actionable intelligence.
Research and strategy delivered across Southern, East, and West Africa — with clients and readers across Europe and Australia.
We work at the intersection of research, strategy, and culture. Here is how we help organisations navigate Africa’s most complex challenges.
Content, narrative, and brand voice for Web3, FinTech, and next-gen consumer brands connecting with modern multiplexed audiences.
Strategic advisory for FinTech and Web3 ventures — core issue identification, long-term vision alignment, and actionable roadmaps.
“A collaboration built around a real problem, a sharp insight, and a measurable result.”
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The Problem
Building a credible, owned research voice in a continent where most African insights are filtered through foreign lenses.
Our Approach
Launched This Month in Africa as a research-driven Substack publication exploring the intersection of technology, finance, culture, and societal transformation across the continent. Built around the belief that owning your audience and shaping your own narrative matters in the digital age.
The Outcome
A global platform reaching readers in over 15 countries, having built a highly engaged cross-border intellectual community around the African Renaissance. The publication positioned Onyx Africa as a forward-thinking voice within conversations around Web3, African innovation, financial systems, and cultural shifts.
Brand Strategy / Narrative Development
The Problem
Indulge Café had a cultural insight and a bold ambition: to transform kota from a township staple into a scalable, modern South African fast-food brand without losing its authenticity.
Our Approach
Partnered with Indulge Café to shape and articulate its long-term vision. Centred around the positioning ‘The Future of Kota,’ we helped refine the brand narrative, growth strategy, and market positioning — aligning the business around quality, consistency, youth culture, and scalable township entrepreneurship.
The Outcome
Indulge Café has operated 30+ stores, created 200+ jobs, and established itself as one of South Africa’s most ambitious emerging food brands.
Digital Analytics / Growth Strategy
The Problem
Victor DC had an active Google Ads ecosystem but lacked the analytical clarity to understand what was working, what was wasting budget, and why some campaigns were generating irrelevant enquiries.
Our Approach
Conducted a full-funnel performance review: campaign analytics, keyword optimisation, audience refinement, and search terms analysis. Identified wasted spend, improved targeting precision, and developed trust-led messaging aligned to a high-scepticism industry.
A clearer, more data-driven growth strategy designed to scale what was already working, filter out low-intent traffic, and improve overall conversion quality and lead acquisition efficiency.
Platform Strategy / Brand Repositioning
The Problem
TengaMore needed to evolve from a conventional eCommerce platform into infrastructure built intentionally for the next generation of African entrepreneurs.
Our Approach
Assisted with refining brand identity, shaping the strategic roadmap, clarifying product positioning, and aligning technology, operations, and marketing around a scalable Pan-African vision. Guided the platform rebuild strategy, marketplace narrative, and seller acquisition direction.
TengaMore repositioned as a platform built for African hustlers underserved by existing global platforms — not simply another marketplace, but owned digital infrastructure for African commerce.
Media / Podcast Strategy
The Problem
Despite the rise of podcasting globally, there was a gap in the African market for thoughtful, culturally grounded conversations exploring the continent’s future beyond surface-level discourse.
Our Approach
Helped conceptualise and position Untapped Azania as a platform for bold conversations around culture, economics, technology, identity, space exploration, and the broader African Renaissance.
Since launching in 2024, the podcast has grown into an emerging cross-platform media property with audiences across five countries, 1000+ TikTok followers, 300+ YouTube subscribers, and a growing community engaging with nuanced conversations shaping Africa’s intellectual landscape.
The Problem
As one of South Africa’s first authorised Crypto Asset Service Providers, Liquid Bridge Fund needed strategic communications support for the launch of Mzansi Crypto — one of South Africa’s first actively managed crypto funds.
Our Approach
Assisted with the promotion and launch communications for Mzansi Crypto, crafting messaging that made an emerging asset class accessible and credible to South African investors.
Successful launch of a pioneering crypto product in a market still developing its regulatory and consumer frameworks around digital assets.
Enterprise Development / Research
The Problem
AgriVuno’s inaugural Women in Agri Accelerator Programme needed rigorous participant assessment and mentorship support to identify and elevate the most promising women-led agricultural ventures.
Our Approach
Assisted with interviewing, mentoring, and scoring participants across the programme. Focused on empowering women entrepreneurs and promoting gender equality in agriculture.
Successfully identified and supported women making meaningful strides in the agricultural sector, contributing to a more inclusive and equitable food systems ecosystem in South Africa.
The Problem
Immunify Life’s transformative healthcare ecosystem needed targeted content to educate and engage a Telegram-based community around critical healthcare data management challenges in East Africa.
Our Approach
Curated targeted content promoting Immunify Life’s platform, empowering patients and healthcare workers to harness the value of their health data.
Strengthened community engagement around a platform addressing one of East Africa’s most pressing digital health infrastructure challenges.
The Problem
Early-stage student entrepreneurs needed access to ideation frameworks, mentorship, and evaluation from practitioners with real-world experience in innovation and strategy.
Our Approach
Hosted Knowledge Exchange Sessions on Ideation Principles and Methodologies. Mentored startups from multiple higher learning institutions. Provided guidance during the MTN Digital Innovation Hackathon in 2024 and 2025, and returned as a mentor for the MTN Digital Innovation Challenge Prototype Builderthon 2026 — a 24-hour build sprint where 21 of South Africa’s most promising student-led digital innovations refine their MVPs, validate problem–solution fit, and prepare for evaluation ahead of the Top 15 advancing to the Enactus SA National Expo. Our founder has also served on the semi-final judging panel at the Enactus SA National Exposition in 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Fostered a culture of innovation across the South African student entrepreneurship ecosystem, helping shape the next generation of purpose-driven builders.
The Problem
BodaBoda wanted to better understand how riders were actually navigating their transport journeys and where friction existed within the customer experience. Traditional assumptions about user behaviour risked overlooking how people were already solving these problems themselves. As Bodaboda expands its mobility platform, the challenge is not simply acquiring more users but understanding how riders are already navigating transportation in their everyday lives.
Our Approach
Through Onyx Africa’s mobile-first ethnographic research methodology, we conducted WhatsApp-based surveys, voice note interviews, and digital diary studies to observe user behaviour in real time. The research revealed a recurring pattern: many riders were already using WhatsApp to coordinate key aspects of their transport journeys. Rather than viewing this as an isolated user behaviour, we identified it as evidence that riders were naturally gravitating toward communication channels they already trusted and used daily.
The insight informed the development of a WhatsApp-based ride request feature, allowing riders to book trips seamlessly within a platform they were already using daily. The result was a more accessible user experience, reduced friction for riders and drivers, and a feature now used by thousands of users. More importantly, it demonstrated how research can move beyond observation and directly shape product decisions that create measurable value. Today, the WhatsApp integration is used by thousands of riders and drivers, demonstrating how research can move beyond insight generation to directly influence product development and user adoption. The project reinforced a core belief at Onyx Africa: research creates value when it changes decisions.
The Problem
Kardia Systems needed a strategic partner that could translate market insight and brand thinking into tangible digital products and owned audience ecosystems.
Our Approach
Onyx Africa’s collaboration with Kardia represents the shift from actionable insight to execution — building owned digital ecosystems for creators and businesses: fully branded platforms designed to help clients monetise audiences directly, reduce platform dependency, and create long-term digital infrastructure.
An ongoing venture-building partnership driving the creation of digital platforms and products that serve African creators and entrepreneurs at the intersection of strategy and technology.