Does Forbes Africa cover AI startups?

Only some. It covers AI startups, with a rule: African business focus.

Press

Forbes Africa

African business focus

Pan-African business magazine and news site with sections on technology and AI. Brands reach it through the advertising team, which plans paid media across print, digital, BrandVoice and events.

Forbes Africa is a tech publication at forbesafrica.com. It covers AI startups, with a rule: African business focus. The price is on request. Terms read on forbesafrica.com on 3 October 2026.

Rate card

Price: Media kits and rate cards on request through the advertising form
Link you get: not stated
Review: Not stated
Run by: ABN Publishing (Pty) Limited
Their rule: African business focus
Lists: Every kind of AI product
Where they say so: forbesafrica.com/advertise/contact-us ↗
Reach: BigBig reach: #172,535 by traffic in the Tranco top million; #40,946 of about 120 million domains by links in Common Crawl's web graph.
Checked: 3 October 2026, on its own pages

Quick answers

Does Forbes Africa cover AI startups?: Only some. It covers AI startups, with a rule: African business focus.
How much does a listing on Forbes Africa cost?: The price is on request.

Who is listed on Forbes Africa

Our nightly read of forbesafrica.com found 180 apps we recognise from other places, among them design.com, google.dev, studio.design, customer.io, research.google, chatgpt.site, microsoft.ai, static.com. As of 8 Oct 2026. Your tracker checks whether yours is there.

How to submit to Forbes Africa

1. Prepare the kit. A one-line pitch, a description, a square logo and screenshots, and check that your product fits their rule: african business focus. The listing guide lists what forms ask for; the tracker builds the kit from your website.
2. Open the form. Their submit page opens from the button above once you are signed in; signing in costs nothing.
3. Wait for the reply. Reply times are not stated; give it two weeks before you follow up. Log the submission in your tracker; it marks the listing when it appears.

Listing tracker

Know when Forbes Africa lists you.

Add your app once; we read forbesafrica.com every week and mark the listing when it appears, every night on Pro. Last read 8 Oct 2026.

Track Forbes Africa

Run Forbes Africa? A badge for your site

Tells founders you take AI tools before they read your rules, and links to your terms here. Paste it in your site's footer, so it is on your home page, where our nightly check looks:

<a href="https://listaify.com/places/forbes-africa"><img src="https://listaify.com/badge/forbes-africa.png" alt="African business focus, verified on Listaify" width="250" height="56"></a>

With the badge in your footer, this page becomes a Partner page: your logo, screenshots and an offer for founders, plus your numbers and the apps your peers list and you do not. Manage this page.

Price changed or something is wrong? Report a change. Run Forbes Africa? Manage this page.