A year ago, many of Kenya’s fastest-growing artists barely registered in Spotify’s streaming data among listeners aged 18–24. Today, several are recording hundreds of thousands of monthly streams, while some of the country’s most established names continue to post strong year-on-year growth. New Spotify listening data for June 2026 suggests that Kenya’s music ecosystem is expanding rather than simply shifting attention from one generation of artists to the next. Emerging acts are finding audiences faster than ever, while long-established artists continue reaching new listeners, creating a landscape where discovery and longevity exist side by side. As Spotify’s Greasy Tunes continues…
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By Stella Mambo, Director Global Markets Absa Bank Kenya Africa’s innovation story has often been framed by scarcity, from limited funding and infrastructure to constrained access to capital. Yet these challenges have repeatedly sparked breakthrough innovation. Mobile money transformed financial services by enabling the continent to leapfrog traditional banking infrastructure. Blockchain may be the next chapter in that story. The latest Africa Blockchain Report, published by Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC) in partnership with Absa, presents an interesting paradox. In 2025, Africa recorded its highest-ever share of global blockchain deals, even as its share of global blockchain funding declined significantly. When you look at…
By Larry Cooke, Binance Africa Africa is one of the fastest-growing crypto markets in the world, but it is also a continent that struggles to trade with itself. These two facts are rarely connected. They should be, because one could help solve the other. Five years into the African Continental Free Trade Area, trade between African countries still accounts for only around 15 percent of the continent’s total commerce. In Asia the figure is more than 60 percent. In Europe it is around 70 percent. We have built the largest free trade area in the world by population, yet we…
Vertiv has announced the successful modernisation of the cooling infrastructure at NFrance’s sovereign data centre. NFrance is a leading French provider of cloud hosting, colocation, and managed services. The project delivered an approximately 20% reduction in power consumption, the elimination of cooling-related water consumption (WUE = 0), and uninterrupted operations throughout the deployment phase, compared to the previous cooling infrastructure capabilities. For nearly 30 years, NFrance has supported organisations in their digital transformation with a strong commitment to availability, security, and data sovereignty. With growing cloud usage and increasingly critical hosted services, the company needed to modernise its cooling output while maintaining…
Students at Kiambu National Polytechnic took part in hands-on learning, career conversations, mentorship sessions and technology demonstrations through the Safaricom Hook Circle. The two-day session exposed them to career pathways beyond traditional employment, including opportunities emerging at the intersection of technology, Agritech and entrepreneurship. Students explored how digital tools are transforming sectors, creating new forms of work and opening up income-generating opportunities. The programme was delivered in partnership with DigiFarm, Power Learn Project, Advanced Mobility Center and other industry experts, bringing practical perspectives on digital learning, Agritech and the skills increasingly demanded in the workplace. “By bringing industry closer to…
QKS Group announced today that it has recognised NETSCOUT as a Leader in the SPARK Matrix: Network Observability, 2026. Akshay Singh, Analyst at QKS Group, states, “NETSCOUT has established a commanding presence in the network observability market through its patented Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) technology and packet-centric approach. Its platform enables large enterprises and service providers to gain unparalleled visibility into network performance, infrastructure health, and application dependencies. NETSCOUT demonstrates exceptional strength in delivering high-fidelity Smart Data, proactive anomaly detection, and AI/ML-driven analytics, supported by highly scalable physical and virtual deployment models. Its capabilities enable organisations to enhance end-to-end network visibility,…
By Sally Kimeu, Territory Sales Manager for East Africa at Nutanix Imagine an enterprise IT team approving a storage refresh based on a hardware quote that made sense at the start of the budget cycle. By the time approvals, procurement, import timelines and negotiations are complete, the components behind that decision may have increased sharply in price. The quote was not necessarily wrong. The market simply moved faster than the procurement cycle. That scenario is becoming increasingly familiar across enterprise IT. It is forcing organisations to rethink more than just how they buy storage hardware. Storage planning now has to…
Binance today marks its ninth anniversary with more than 323 million registered users across over 100 countries. When Binance launched in July 2017, fewer than 6 million people worldwide owned cryptocurrency. Today, that number exceeds 741 million, representing growth of more than 12,000% in under a decade. Binance’s user base has grown from zero to 323 million over the same period, meaning roughly 43% of all crypto holders worldwide now use Binance. The milestone arrives as digital assets move from the margins of global finance to the mainstream. Institutional participation is at record levels, with ETFs and digital asset trusts now…
Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from experimentation to core infrastructure, bringing with it new demands on data centres worldwide. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI conversation has accelerated dramatically – evolving from early curiosity to a strategic priority for organisations across industries. “In just three years, the landscape has evolved dramatically. At first, generative AI was all about writing emails, summarising documents and handling tedious tasks. Then last year, we started seeing agentic AI, with systems that don’t just follow instructions but begin taking stewardship over tasks. It’s exciting, but it’s also challenging to navigate.” This…
Check Point Research has released its Global Threat Intelligence insights for June 2026, revealing that organisations worldwide experienced an average of 2,270 cyber attacks per week, representing a 10% increase month on month and a 17% increase year on year. Among the four African countries included in the insights, Angola remained the most attacked country, with 4 890 attacks per organisation per week, followed by Nigeria at 4 361, Kenya at 2 646, and South Africa at 2 065. Latin America remained the most attacked region, with organisations reporting an average of 3,501 weekly attacks, a 27% increase compared with…