A Call for Nominations | Celebrating Africa’s Most Influential Tech Minds

Empire Magazine Africa proudly presents The Nexus 100, an annual index spotlighting the continent’s most transformative, visionary, and influential minds driving Africa’s tech revolution.

These are the pioneers shaping Africa’s digital destiny. The innovators building scalable solutions. The engineers behind breakthrough platforms. The data architects, AI thinkers, product geniuses, and ecosystem builders reimagining what’s possible from Accra to Cape Town, Kigali to Cairo, and beyond.

In the labs, on the blockchain, across AI frontiers, in code repositories, and within startup ecosystems, The Nexus 100 captures the individuals leading Africa’s charge toward a smarter, more connected, and future-ready continent.

Now, we turn to you.

2025 Nomination Call

Who are the tech trailblazers defining Africa’s future?

Whether they are founders scaling disruptive startups, researchers solving systemic challenges, or digital strategists advancing inclusion, The Nexus 100 recognises African tech minds on the continent and across the diaspora who are shifting paradigms and building what’s next.

We’re looking for individuals who:

• Demonstrate outstanding innovation or leadership in a tech-related field
• Have founded or scaled impactful technologies or platforms
• Are advancing access, equity, or inclusion through technology
• Embody the spirit of bold thinking, ingenuity, and African excellence

It might be a tech leader you work alongside. A startup founder you admire.

It might even be you.