If 2025 were removed from Africa's digital transformation journey, the gap would be impossible to ignore. It would mean erasing a year that brought some of the most consequential milestones, overdue course corrections, and honest conversations the sector has seen in recent times. Beyond launches, investments, and announcements, 2025 marked a moment of reckoning.
At the start of the year, Africa's digital transformation stood at a familiar crossroads. Connectivity continued to expand, new technologies gained momentum, and ambition remained high. Yet many of the structural challenges that have long shaped the continent's digital future persisted beneath the surface. Questions around access, affordability, infrastructure resilience, policy readiness, inclusion, and long-term sustainability were no longer peripheral. They demanded attention.
Through our lens at TechAfrica News, 2025 became the year of foregrounding issues in digital transformation. This meant deliberately bringing long-standing challenges to the centre of the conversation, rather than allowing them to sit quietly behind innovation narratives. It was about making certain realities impossible to ignore as digital transformation was planned, debated, and implemented across the continent.
