Africa’s six-year tech IPO drought ended dramatically in November as South African fintech Optasia and Moroccan payments firm Cash Plus together raised $427 million in back-to-back listings on the Johannesburg and Casablanca stock exchanges, marking the continent’s first homegrown tech debuts si
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Royal Ibeh
Royal Ibeh is a senior journalist with years of experience reporting on Nigeria’s technology and health sectors. She currently covers the Technology and Health beats for BusinessDay newspaper, where she writes in-depth stories on digital innovation, telecom infrastructure, healthcare systems, and public health policies.
