NAC helps decide what kind of access should be given at the point of connection. (Image source: iStock) A question we often hear when customers are looking at secure access service edge (SASE), security service edge (SSE) or zero-trust network access (ZTNA) strategies is: “If we’re already controlling access through identity and zero trust, why do we…
Our new book, How we made it in Africa II: Real stories of entrepreneurs turning opportunity into profit, is available here. This interview was first published by the International Finance Corporation A candid conversation between IFC managing director, Makhtar Diop and Aliko Dangote, Africa’s leading industrialist. From energy and fertiliser, to logistics, agriculture and water,…
React Native remains one of the most widely used mobile development frameworks, powering many production applications across industries. However, it is still frequently debated through assumptions that do not fully reflect how it is used in modern enterprise environments. In 2026, the most important question is no longer whether React Native can perform at scale….
As quantum computing edges closer to practical reality and artificial intelligence continues to accelerate, Singularity South Africa has announced another wave of influential speakers for the 2026 Summit, taking place in collaboration with Old Mutual and metaverse partner UBU, at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 October 2026. Building…
Nairobi – France came to Nairobi last week with a message it has been trying to land for years: that it wants to be Africa’s partner, not its patron. At the Africa Forward summit in May, Emmanuel Macron made that case again. Not everyone was convinced. On the second floor of the Kenyatta International Convention…
Over the past 11 years, The Conversation Africa has published 12,961 articles by 8,257 authors, making the expertise of academics and researchers in Africa and other parts of the world accessible to the public, national and global policymakers, and other stakeholders. These articles are also republished by other media, making our work an important pillar…
Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), the infrastructure for customer engagement in the AI era, kicked off its user conference, SIGNAL, by unveiling its next generation platform capabilities for the agentic era. Generally available today, Conversation Memory, Conversation Orchestrator, Conversation Intelligence, and Agent Connect combine to turn disparate interactions into continuous, intelligent, and personal conversations across humans, agents,…
NAIROBI, 8 April 2026 Africa’s most consequential gathering on housing and urban development, Africa Urban Forum 2 (AUF 2), opened today in Nairobi, as African leaders and policymakers called for urgent, coordinated action to transform the continent’s rapidly expanding cities into engines of economic growth, social inclusion, and climate resilience. The three-day forum, running from…
Conversational commerce has never stood still. Instead, it has consistently evolved in step with changing consumer expectations and behaviour. In the early 2000s, SMS formed the backbone of mobile customer engagement, enabling everything from balance checks to delivery notifications. However, as smartphones took over, retailers promptly shifted their focus to apps, mobile-optimised websites and push…
There’s a lot of dodgy and divisive content online. But now there’s a way to choose something better. Google recently launched a new feature that allows you to nominate which sources you trust the most so they appear near the top of your search results. There are many reasons to nominate The Conversation. We are…
