Moïse Bienheureux Selph
I report on digital Africa.
And I build one piece of it.
News anchor and host of Africa Tech on Ifrikya FM, Algeria’s pan-African radio station. Founder of Lobaka.
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Alger, 2026
- 2YRS
- of weekly broadcasting on Africa Tech
- 100+
- episodes broadcast
- 16COUNTRIES
- covered on air, across 5 sub-regions
- 18H45
- main news bulletin anchor
- FM · OC · SAT
- 105.6 Alger · shortwave · AlcomSat
They came on air
The people building the continent, on the record.
What keeps coming up
Two years interviewing the people building the continent’s digital infrastructure — heads of public agencies, founders, researchers, regulators. One obstacle comes up almost every time, and nobody treats it as a technical problem.
A summit in Algiers. A delegation from Central Africa. Three working languages, an interpreter hired the night before through a WhatsApp group, briefing documents emailed to a personal address. The caterer was vetted. The interpreter was not.
Between Brazzaville and Algiers: four thousand seven hundred kilometres, and not one language shared in the street.
Africa’s language barrier is not a market abstraction. It is a journey I make.
What I build
Lobaka
Language infrastructure for international events in Africa.
Source verified interpreters, coordinate assignments and secure briefing documents from a single platform. Built around a requirement the market ignores: what is said in the booth is sensitive information, and should be handled as such.
Prototype · Algiers, 2026
Analysis
What two years on air eventually teach you.
Africa speaks two thousand languages. Its digital world speaks five.
Africa’s digital divide has long been measured in coverage rates and gigabyte prices. The next one will be measured in languages.
10 min read
What is said in the booth
In a bilingual negotiation, the interpreter is the only person in the room who understands everything. They are also the only one whose identity nobody checks.
11 min read
The national data centre is not enough
Every sovereign data centre announcement is hailed as a victory. Digital sovereignty is not measured in square metres of clean room.
9 min read
Vision
You can be perfectly connected and still be outside, if everything on the network is written in a language you do not speak.
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