This is the kind of story that deserves a lot more attention than it’s getting. Nigerian startup Mansa Markets has launched a pan-African capital markets intelligence platform that provides real-time stock market data across Africa’s major exchanges in one unified terminal — covering seven exchanges including Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, and Ivory Coast, plus benchmark index data for six more. The platform covers live stock prices, market indices, sector performance, corporate disclosures, crypto prices in African currencies, and forex rates — and it was built on the conviction that African capital markets deserve the same quality data infrastructure that Western markets have long enjoyed. What makes this even more impressive? It’s currently bootstrapped and founder-funded, with zero paid marketing spend — yet they’ve already built an organic audience of investors, developers, and institutions, with consistent inbound requests for API access. The long-term ...