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Onyx Africa Key Themes
Research-driven long-form pieces exploring African tech, finance, Web3, culture, and markets. Built around the belief that owning your narrative matters.
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Web3 Founder Series
Conversations with the founders designing Africa’s next financial architecture.
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AGENT ECONOMY [When Machines Earn, Spend, and Employ Themselves]
We’re entering an era where the employee isn’t just a person—it’s a bot that writes code, a wallet that pays ...
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Mpumelelo Ndamane, Co-founder & CEO of nuud money
Mpumelelo Ndamane is not the archetypal tech founder. He’s a trained theologian, a jazz musician, and now the co-founder and CEO ...
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The Second Screen [Africa’s Mobile Gaming Addiction: A Web3 Superpower]
There’s a running joke in tech circles: “Africa skipped the PC era entirely and went straight to mobile.” It’s usually ...
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Vibe Coding [The Dawn of the Idea Architect]
On February 3rd, 2025, Andrej Karpathy (former Director of AI at Tesla and part of OpenAI‘s founding team) dropped a tweet that went viral and ...
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Glen Jordan, Co-founder & CEO of Empowa
Africa doesn’t have a housing problem. It has a financing problem! Glen Jordan saw it firsthand — families in Cape Town’s ...
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Wisani Hlangwane, Co-founder & CEO of Funti3r
Africa has no shortage of talent… What it has historically lacked is access. For decades, some of the continent’s brightest ...
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Charné Thompson, Founder & Director of Thompsons Legal Alliance
Lawyers don’t build the future—they safeguard it. But what happens when a legal mind refuses to just stand guard and ...
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Nathaniel Ochuko Luz, President of Africa Stablecoin Network
The Africa Stablecoin Network is attempting to do something Africa’s technology ecosystems have historically struggled with — bring innovators and policymakers into ...
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e/acc [Techno-Realist Manifesto]
Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) is a term borrowed from the broader accelerationist philosophy, which suggests that technological and societal progress should not ...
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Infinite Replayability: Gaming’s Quest for Absolute Immortality
Replayability has been a core pillar of gaming for decades. While the notion of “infinite” replayability is a modern concept, ...
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Ahren Posthumus, CEO & Founder of Momint
The future of Web3 in Africa isn’t being built in boardrooms—it’s being shaped by founders willing to challenge the norm, ...
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Yousuf Munshi, Founder & CEO of BOS Technology
In a world where crypto adoption is skyrocketing, one major gap remains—spending it in everyday transactions. Enter the world of BOS ...
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Kgothatso Ngako, Founder of Machankura & Exonumia
Bitcoin adoption in Africa has always faced a unique set of challenges—low internet penetration, financial exclusion, and linguistic diversity, to ...
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TETHER (The Epitome of Business Modelry)
“Think about 2020: imagine a room full of people—the greatest names in our industry. In that room, everyone was looking ...
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The Rise of Decentralized Social: What’s Next for Social Media?
As the world becomes increasingly conscious of the limitations and risks associated with centralized control, the conversation is expanding beyond ...
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Yin and Yang of ETH Supply-Demand [The Bull Market Blueprint]
Picture this: a digital universe where trustless coordination reigns supreme, seamlessly connecting individuals and businesses across the globe. At the ...
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Web 2.5 [A New Lease of Life]
One of the most exciting technologies to come out of the last decade was the consumer blockchain. Introduced to the ...
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In The Ether [The Collective Consciousness of the Crypto Ecosystem]
In the spirit of the season and the dawn of a new year, it’s only right that we ride the ...
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Onyx Africa Big Ideas 2022
Compliments of the season 🙂 <3 The pace at which innovation driven disruption are happening right now is astonishing; two ...
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