Africa has the talent and audience to build a globally competitive sports economy; its main constraints are visibility, data and infrastructure. But technology has the power to connect African leagues and players with fans, scouts, clubs, investors and commercial partners worldwide, as you’ll hear in this DLD Sports conversation between Amy Wanday and Stephen Domingo (both Okapi Sports) with Oliver Cantrill (Insight Eleven).
Okapi Sports combines media, analytics, broadcast rights and live coverage to make African sport measurable and accessible, Domingo explains. “More people are putting together tournaments, more people are putting together leagues”, he says. What’s needed is a “a technology system that allows us to capture what is happening on the ground and get it to the correct partners.”
Okapi’s coverage of Rwanda’s domestic basketball league generated 1.4 million live views across more than 115 countries in August 2026, while its platform also brings international sport to African audiences. “These are unprecedented numbers for live viewers”, Domingo says.
Cantrill highlights a big gap in football video data. “If you are a 17-year-old footballer in an academy in Spain or England, you and your agent will probably have over 1,000 hours of high-quality video footage that you can use to market yourself to other football clubs”, he notes.
In contrast, young players in Africa would be “lucky to have 10 to 15 hours of poor video quality shot on an iPhone” – which creates a “massive opportunity” to provide African football academies with the infrastructure they need to be internationally competitive, Cantrill argues.
Watch the video to explore this session in detail.
