Naza Motalosali: I am the one who observes, speaks and acts.
An identity I created from three Lingála words: Motali, the one who observes; Molobi, the one who speaks; Mosali, the one who acts.
Host of Africa Tech, Nzamba and Umuzi on Ifrikya FM, Algeria's pan-African radio station. Founder of Lobaka, co-founder of Sunnubang, creator and author of BAKOKO.
- of weekly broadcasting on Africa Tech
- 2YRS
- episodes archived
- 29
- covered on air, across 5 sub-regions
- 17COUNTRIES
- Africa Tech, Nzamba and Umuzi, on Ifrikya FM
- 3PROGRAMMES
- 105.6 Algiers · shortwave · AlcomSat
- FM · OC · SAT
01Analysis
Motaliobserve
What two years on air eventually teach you.
Work · 15 August 2026 · Series · 7 episodes · 45 min read
Leaving at four
A chief financial officer told me he was going to pick up his daughter from school for the first time in six years, and that he owed it to a machine. I found the story beautiful. Then I looked at who in his department had disappeared so that this hour could exist. Seven episodes.
Read the series- 02Sauter une générationL’Algérie pourrait sauter le Mobile Money de première génération. Pas le problème qu’il résolvait : faire circuler l’argent au-delà du premier commerçant.Paiements · 29 September 2026 · Series · 7 chapters · 30 min readFull text in French
- 03Une société vous retire ce qu’elle contrôleLa colère ne suffit pas. Il faut une main qui retire.Société · 29 September 2026 · Series · 7 chapters · 45 min readFull text in French
- 04Fifteen dinars withdrawn for one spentIn Algeria, in 2025, people pulled fifteen times more cash out of machines than they spent electronically in shops. That is where the argument starts. It really begins somewhere much smaller, in a car pulled over one evening in Algiers. Seven episodes.Payments · 14 September 2026 · Series · 7 episodes · 60 min readFull text in French
Datasets
Three structured registers, verifiable sources.
- Digital sovereigntyObservatoryInfrastructure, national cloud, domains, space, regulation — who is building what, where, at what stage.
- NzambaWhat is builtStartups featured on air: deliverables, commitments, frictions. Every line carries its source.
- UmuziAfrican languagesEach language documented across five axes: vitality, reach, crossroads, heritage, modern presence.
02On air at Ifrikya FM
Molobispeak
Three shows, three perspectives on the continent.
Wednesday · 1:05pmDigital sovereignty
Africa Tech
Every Wednesday, the continent's technology challenges. Season 2 — September 2026.
Discover
Saturday · 1:05pmStartups & digital economy
Nzamba
The entrepreneurs building digital infrastructure. Season 1 — September 2026.
Discover
Starting September 2026African languages
Umuzi
The continent's linguistic heritage as living heritage. Launching September 2026.
Discover
Starting in SeptemberTalks and media appearances
Feriel Tounsi
Co-founder — immersive reality and heritage
Shédio Design Solutions · DZ
Adel Mebarki
Co-founder and CEO
Foresight Data Agency · DZ
Wassila Knatef
Head of incubation
ANPT · DZ
Hadjer Boumeshad
CEO and founder
HR Technology · DZ
Yazid Benmouhoub
Chief Executive Officer
Bourse d’Alger (SGBV) · DZ
Chérifa Obone
Columnist — Ifrikya FM panels
GA
What keeps coming up
Between Brazzaville and Algiers: four thousand seven hundred kilometres, and not one language shared in the street.
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.
Africa's language barrier is not a market abstraction. It is a journey I make.
03What I build
Mosaliact
Two workshops. One speaks, the other plays.
Two projects I am building in Algiers: infrastructure so everyone can listen in their own language, and a band looking for its music.
Voice technology · Algiers · Since 2026
LOBAKA
Voice infrastructure for a multilingual world.
A voice-technology brand founded in Algiers. A first solution, LOBAKA Sasa: listen to an event in your language on your own phone.
Pilot sessions in preparation · Algiers
Music · Algiers · Pan-African
Sunnubang
A pan-African band. Music being built in Algiers.
“Sunnu” means “our” in Wolof: Sunnubang is our band. Young Africans from several countries, brought together in Algiers, exploring and reinterpreting the continent's music to make their own.
First composition in preparation · Alger na Brazza
Fiction · A story being written
BAKOKO
Brazzaville, 2020Téké plateau, 1862· 158 years
The title is only explained at the end.
Vision
You can be perfectly connected and still be outside, if everything on the network is written in a language you do not speak.
Working together