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Student visas for Africa’s best and brightest were canceled by the Trump administration, leaving empty seats and broken dreams. “A punch to the heart,” said one woman who lost her scholarship. on.wsj.com/3Pwmprd

Making a product open-source can be altruistic. But it can also be a competitive tactic to undercut revenue that would have flowed to the rival products. If those rivals are financially weaker, then they can't effectively compete with you. That's Meta's Llama LLM in a nutshell.

Didn't expect OpenAI to bow out of AI video creation so early. But AI video probably consumes a lot of computing resources that could be better allocated to other products. Regardless, it's now ceding the market to Adobe, Google, RunwayML, Kling AI, et al. wsj.com/tech/ai/openai…

Women in Jos, Nigeria, have formed an all-female vigilante group to tackle violence, confronting drug dealers and thieves armed with nothing but whips and ID cards

Inside the N1.6bn UNILAG hostel that became part of crisis it was built to solve INVESTIGATION: When the N1.6B Gbajabiamila Hall was opened at @UnilagNigeria in 2024, students hoped it would ease the housing crisis. With rooms priced at N950K and bed spaces at N710K, it mirrors the cost of private hostels despite being publicly funded and maintained with taxpayers' money. This BusinessDay investigation uncovers how UNILAG turned a public intervention project into a commercial venture. Read the full BusinessDay Investigations report below. businessday.ng/investigation/…

i've been thinking a lot about how nvidia has become the financial kingmaker of the AI industry my latest story for @WSJ is a deep dive on this topic, filled with examples of how the company wields its balance sheet as an instrument of power link below: wsj.com/tech/nvidia-ai…

The amount of money here is tiny. But the damage to journalistic credibility is huge. It creates the impression that under-the-table payments to journalists are normal in South Africa. It is not normal, and it needs to be stamped out entirely. Just say no.

Unitree filed for a $610M IPO on the STAR Market last week. Revenue went from $23M to $248M in two years. 60% gross margins. 35% net profit. As promised, we wrote a quick take on the Unitree IPO. Unitree's cost discipline is real and we wouldn't count them out. But the gap between the hardware and the intelligence is also very real. And when we visited another humanoid maker, Kepler, in Shanghai last fall, we also learned that what makes a robot look amazing on stage is not what makes it useful in a factory. Different design priorities entirely. I personally don't think any of these stops the stock from going parabolic in the short term, but longer term, it's got its work cut out.

If there is a status attached to height – and there is – then 5ft 11in doesn’t quite measure up. Six foot is manly, commanding. Five-11 is acceptable, unremarkable. But a near-miss. It’s the upper end of almost, the FT's Alex Bilmes writes. ⁠ft.trib.al/Cy2ronS

“After taking everything we had … they want to colonize us again.” Brazil’s president Lula is warning that the global race for critical minerals could repeat a long history of colonial extraction.

The European Union upgrades its relationship with Nigeria and announces significant new Global Gateway investments | EEAS eeas.europa.eu/delegations/ni…

'Iyanu' Creator Roye Okupe's 'Malika: Warrior Queen' Feature Film Boarded by Singapore's August Media Group (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2026/film/glob…

Moniepoint didn’t buy Orda for payments. While that is the obvious read, I think it only scratches the surface. Moniepoint already processes about ₦8 billion a day at Nigerian restaurants. Annualised, that is roughly ₦2.92 trillion—just 0.71% of the ₦412 trillion it processed

EXCLUSIVE: @moniepoint has acquired Orda, a cloud-based restaurant management platform, in a move that deepens its push to embed payments directly into the daily operations of merchants. techcabal.com/2026/03/23/mon…

"Colonialism did its job of isolating us." Speaking at the CELAC–Africa Forum in Bogota, Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez called for stronger Latin America–Africa ties, saying closer cooperation could boost economic growth and challenge colonial legacies.

Uganda's long running effort to restore its wildlife after civil war-driven poaching devastated it in the 1980s is an under-celebrated African conservation success story.

Amazon’s most ambitious movie to-date delivers the company’s biggest opening ever. A big boost to Amazon’s theatrical ambitions after 3 misses to start the year.

Project Hail Mary opened to $80M domestic and $141M worldwide, per Amazon. Net budget a little less than $200M. Looks like this could be its first global Hollywood-style blockbuster after a decade of making original movies….

I actually want power from national grid. I don’t want solar or inverter. I want my country to work. Shitty ass place that makes your co sufferers talk down at you for not being able to figure out or hustle solutions for government incompetence. Foolish place I hate it hereeeeeee

In David E. Kelley’s new Apple TV series ‘Margot’s Got Money Troubles,’ Elle Fanning plays a new mom turned OnlyFans creator navigating the platform’s mix of entrepreneurship, creativity and creeps. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…