Every Story,
In One Place.
Deep-dive documentary features and founder stories from across the African continent. Each episode comes with a full written story, behind-the-scenes images, and key takeaways.
17 episodes
Deep TechZerobionic: Building the Future from Africa
What does it mean to build deep tech from Africa? Zerobionic is answering that question in real time engineering solutions at the edge of human potential, with the continent's constraints as fuel, not obstacle.
City SpotlightAddis Ababa Is Not What You Think
The world has a fixed image of Addis Ababa. We went to find out how far from that image the city has moved and came back with something far more interesting than we expected.
HardwareQuepay: The Kenyan Startup Building Hardware, Not Apps
Quepay doesn't fit the Nairobi startup template. No app. No subscription model. Just engineers with soldering irons, building payment infrastructure for the physical world from the ground up.
Consumer GoodsBrewing Up a Dream: My Journey to Launch Beer in Africa
The African beer market is worth billions and controlled by a handful of multinationals. One founder decided to challenge them anyway armed with a recipe, a dream, and no manual for what comes next.
Media & TechStoripod: Can This Startup Finally Pay African Writers Online?
Storipod turns stories into interactive social-style slides, letting writers publish directly to their audience and earn without a publisher, without a middleman, and without needing a Western credit card.
Business DistrictEastleigh: Nairobi's Billion-Dollar Somali Business District
How did a colonial-era residential estate become the commercial heartbeat of Nairobi's informal economy? The story of Eastleigh is the story of displacement, resilience, and the extraordinary power of community-driven capital.
Real EstateMwenda Thuranira: Kenya's Real Estate Millionaire
From a standing start to a multi-property portfolio, Mwenda Thuranira's real estate journey offers a rare inside look at how wealth is built in Kenya's property market the strategies, the mistakes, and the mindset.
Tech & CommunitySheCode Kenya: Building the Next Generation of Tech Talent
SheCode Kenya is expanding the definition of who belongs in tech. From job opportunities to the metaverse, this is what the future of Kenya's tech talent looks like and it's more diverse than you might expect.
FintechHe Left Law School and a $500K Career to Build Payd
What makes someone give up guaranteed security to build a startup from scratch? The story behind Payd is a raw look at risk, conviction, and the specific kind of stubbornness it takes to build global financial infrastructure from Nairobi.
EntrepreneurshipWhy I left Medicine for Crypto
An inside look at the founders across the continent who are choosing to build in spite of every structural reason not to.
Travel TechMeet Brian Nduhiu: The Travel Tech Wizard
Meet Brian Nduhiu, the Kenyan software engineer who transitioned from freelancing and AI projects to becoming Head Engineer at Triply before launching StudioX, a software development company, and Split Out, an event ticketing platform built for Africa.
Consumer BrandsTedd Josiah: The Kenyan Music Legend Dominating the Leather Scene
The man behind Kenya's most iconic music hit traded the studio for a workshop and built a luxury leather brand. The skills transferred more than you'd expect.
Tech & CybersecurityDr. Bright: From the Internet Bubble to Cybersecurity in Africa
A rare first-person account of what it was like to be a software engineer in Africa during the internet's earliest days the Bitcoin era, the cyber security landscape, and what it all means for the continent's digital future.
HardwareThe Kenyan Innovator Making Durable Data Cables
Anthony is building durable data cables in Kenya navigating scarce skilled labour, marketing with social media, and learning the difference between starting a business and running one. A grounded story of hardware entrepreneurship from the inside.
Technology, electric busesInside The Company eletrifying Kenya Transport
Electric buses are quietly entering Nairobi’s streets, but the real shift isn’t what you see—it’s the system being built behind them. This story explores how BasiGo is introducing a new transport infrastructure that could reshape how the city moves.
Technology, FintechThe African Startup Fixing a Multi-Billion Dollar Payments Problem
Every day, millions of dollars move across Africa through systems built decades ago. Paycrest believes the continent's growing digital economy needs a new set of financial rails and it's betting that the future of African fintech will be built on infrastructure, not apps.
Technology, Electric bikes The Company Replacing Petrol in Kenya: Inside Spiro’s Electric Mobility Network
In Nairobi, transport is not just movement. It is a daily financial system. Every morning, thousands of boda boda riders and commuters convert fuel, time, and effort into income. Into this system, a new model has quietly entered: Spiro an electric mobility company building a battery-swapping network across Africa. What looks like a motorcycle rollout is, in reality, a redesign of how energy, transport, and financing intersect.
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