Presenter · Essayist · Writer · Entrepreneur
I report on digital Africa.
And I build one piece of it.
See · Say · Do
News anchor and host of Africa Tech on Ifrikya FM, Algeria's pan-African radio station. Founder of Lobaka.
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Alger, 2024
- 2YRS
- of weekly broadcasting on Africa Tech
- 28
- episodes documented
- 17COUNTRIES
- covered on air, across 5 sub-regions
- 18H45
- main news bulletin anchor
- FM · OC · SAT
- 105.6 Alger · shortwave · AlcomSat
On air
Starting in September
They came on air
The people building the continent, on the record.
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
Ifrikya FM · GA
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.
03 — Mosali
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
02 — Motali · Motali · Analysis
What two years on air eventually teach you.
The price of entry
What artificial intelligence changes about the cost of becoming a company: a seven-chapter series from the experience of an entrepreneur without capital.
Fifteen dinars withdrawn for every dinar spent
In Algeria in 2025, fifteen times more money was withdrawn from cash machines than spent electronically with merchants.
Fifty licences for one market
Flutterwave holds over fifty licences to sell the same service across some thirty countries. It is not a trophy. It is a bill.
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.
01 — Molobi · Molobi · On air at Ifrikya FM
Three shows, three perspectives on the continent.
Digital sovereignty
Africa Tech
Every Wednesday, the continent's technology challenges. Season 2 — September 2026.
DiscoverStartups & digital economy
Nzamba
The entrepreneurs building digital infrastructure. Season 1 — September 2026.
DiscoverAfrican languages
Umuzi
The continent's linguistic heritage as living heritage. Launching September 2026.
Discover02 — Motali · Motali · Datasets
Three structured registers, verifiable sources.
Digital sovereignty
Observatory
Infrastructure, national cloud, domains, space, regulation — who is building what, where, at what stage.
ExploreNzamba
What is built
Startups featured on air: deliverables, commitments, frictions. Every line carries its source.
ExploreUmuzi
African languages
Each language documented across five axes: vitality, reach, crossroads, heritage, modern presence.
ExploreManifesto
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