Amara Oparah
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- Sep 23, 2026
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What U.S. Investors Actually Look for During IP Due Diligence in African Startups (opens the original)
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“As African tech funding continues its recovery and investors become more selective rather than simply more active, IP diligence is likely to get more rigorous, not less.” African tech funding just had its strongest year since the 2022 peak. According to Partech Africa’s 2025 Africa Tech Venture Capital Report, startups across the continent raised a combined $4.1 billion in equity and debt (a 25% increase over 2024), with Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, and Nigeria together accounting for roughly se
ARIPO vs. OAPI: What U.S. Companies Need to Know Before Building an Africa IP Strategy (opens the original)
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“The choice between ARIPO and OAPI isn’t a legal technicality to hand off without discussion. It’s a map of where a company’s brand and technology will, and won’t, be defensible.” Every year, U.S. companies expanding into Africa make the same planning mistake: they treat the continent as though it has one intellectual property system. It has two, and choosing the wrong one, or failing to choose at all, can leave a brand or invention unprotected across dozens of countries a company assumed it had
Nigeria Is Building the Next Global Economy: Is Your Intellectual Property Ready for It? (opens the original)
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“A common misconception is that entering Nigeria means operating outside the international IP framework U.S. companies already know. That is not accurate.” U.S. companies planning to enter Nigeria typically build a careful playbook for market research, distribution, hiring, and regulatory compliance. Intellectual property is often the item furthest down that list, treated as paperwork to handle once commercial activity is already underway. That sequencing is backwards, and it is worth understand
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