Built for Africa. Now Dead.

A minute of silence to the African software products that are no longer operating. Learn what they built, what led to their closure, and which alternatives continue to serve their users today.

African Software Shutdowns · 142 products

The Graveyard is an editorial archive. Each fate describes what happened to a product as an independent service, while the record separates documented facts from community opinion. How the Graveyard works →

Uru

Here lies Uru. It launched in April 2017 promising taxis, charter cars and parcel delivery across five African markets at once. It never published a single number from any of them. The most ambitious route it ever mapped was the one it never drove.

2017 – UnknownTravel & Mobility🇬🇭 Ghana

Sesacash

Here lies Sesacash. It held twenty traditional and digital currencies in one wallet for Ghana and Nigeria and paid crypto cashback to win users, reaching a thousand of them. The blog stops dead on 13 April 2020. Its domain now spends someone else's money.

2018 – April 2020Crypto & Web3🇬🇭 Ghana,🇳🇬 Nigeria

KOKO Networks

Here lies KOKO Networks. It built smart bioethanol stations to make clean cooking affordable across Kenya. The stoves had fuel, but the carbon-credit engine lost government authorisation. Seven hundred jobs later, the network went offline.

2013 – January 2026Energy & Utilities🇰🇪 Kenya

Wabona

Here lies Wabona. A pan-African video-on-demand service, it carried African film and TV, moving from pay-per-view to subscriptions. The founders couldn't raise the next round in a market shifting faster than they could, and closed within days. Refunds issued; no second season.

2012 – August 2015Media & Entertainment🇿🇦 South Africa

S&T Media

Here lies S&T Media. It hung interactive ad screens at fuel pumps and supermarket aisles, mixing brand spots with news and sport. But the screens drew more power than the grid could promise, and with no capital past its seed, the network went dark.

2014 – November 2023Marketing & CRM🇳🇬 Nigeria

Kune Food

Here lies Kune Food. It cooked and delivered ready-to-eat meals across Nairobi for about three dollars each. Rising food costs ate the thin margin on that price, the next funding round never arrived, and in June 2022 it served its last order and let ninety people go.

2020 – June 2021E-commerce & Retail🇰🇪 Kenya

Barter by Flutterwave

Here lies Barter. For seven years it gave Nigerians virtual dollar cards for Netflix, subscriptions, and shopping the world. When card-partner troubles and merchant rejections piled up and it fell to one percent of Flutterwave's volume, the parent cancelled the card.

2017 – March 2024Fintech🇳🇬 Nigeria

Afristay

Here lies Afristay. For nearly two decades it listed 30,000 African stays, guest houses, villas and B&Bs, for travellers. Then the pandemic emptied the calendar, and the bookings never came back. It checked out in 2025 with no vacancy left to fill.

2006 – June 2025Real Estate & Property🇿🇦 South Africa

KippaPay (The Product)

Here lies KippaPay. It handed Nigerian merchants POS terminals to take payments, pay bills, and move money. Then the naira slid and took the hardware margins with it; six months on, its parent pulled the plug and let the terminals go quiet.

2021 – October 2023Fintech🇳🇬 Nigeria

Brass

Here lies Brass. It gave Nigerian businesses current accounts and cash-flow tools, then became the banking equivalent of a merger. Paystack kept the business alive. The Brass name was written off.

2020 – June 2026Fintech🇳🇬 Nigeria

Notify Logistics

Here lies Notify Logistics. It carved rented warehouse floors into hundreds of shelves and leased them to small sellers with nowhere to store their stock. Shelf rents of a few thousand shillings never covered 800,000 shillings a month in floor costs, and it ran out of room in August 2022.

2018 – September 2022Logistics & Supply Chain🇰🇪 Kenya

Paxful

Here lies Paxful. For a decade it matched buyers and sellers of Bitcoin across emerging markets using local money. Then the compliance bill for its founders' early shortcuts came due, and no counterparty could cover it. Trading closed for good.

2015 – October 2025Crypto & Web3🇳🇬 Nigeria,🇬🇭 Ghana,🇰🇪 Kenya+1

Capiter

Here lies Capiter. It connected Egypt's retailers and wholesalers to digitise the wholesale trade. Aggressive hiring emptied the shelves of cash, and when the board removed its founders amid fraud claims, no merger could restock it. The marketplace was liquidated.

2020 – August 2023E-commerce & Retail🇪🇬 Egypt

Brimore

Here lies Brimore. It linked Egyptian manufacturers to an army of freelance sales agents reaching all 27 governorates. Fierce competition and a valuation cut slowed the network, and by 2024 its operations sat paused while the remaining founders weighed a return.

2017 – February 2023E-commerce & Retail🇪🇬 Egypt

Gigbanc

Here lies Gigbanc. It helped Africans get paid globally and withdraw locally, then made one final transfer to the startup afterlife. This transfer is final. Withdrawals are no longer supported.

2023 – July 2026Fintech🇳🇬 Nigeria

DealDey

Here lies DealDey. It brought Nigerians daily discounts on goods, services, and event tickets, once among the country's largest online sellers. After the acquisition it went quiet on merchants and customers alike, and the deals finally ran out. The last offer went unclaimed.

2011 – January 2019E-commerce & Retail🇳🇬 Nigeria

HerRyde

Here lies HerRyde. It gave Nigerian women a ride-hailing service with women behind every wheel, answering real fears about safety, and it moved over two thousand of them. Bootstrapped to the end, it could not raise the fare to scale, and parked itself in hibernation.

2022 – May 2024Travel & Mobility🇳🇬 Nigeria

Climate Edge

Here lies Climate Edge. It carried soil data, planting calendars and market prices to 150,000 smallholder farmers over SMS and voice, no smartphone required. Around 2023 the updates simply stopped and the signal went quiet. The domain now belongs to someone else.

2016 – January 2023🇰🇪 Kenya

Momint

Here lies Momint. South Africa's first NFT marketplace pivoted to tokenising solar projects once the hype faded. It served tens of thousands, but growth stalled past the early adopters and the crypto winter froze the funding. The last token went unminted.

2021 – June 2025Crypto & Web3🇿🇦 South Africa

Dash

Here lies Dash. It promised to be the AliPay of Africa, linking mobile money and bank accounts across borders. But the numbers it moved were partly fiction, and millions went missing before the regulator and an audit caught up. Eighty-six million raised, the account empty.

2019 – October 2023Fintech🇬🇭 Ghana

Nefsak

Here lies Nefsak. Once called Egypt's fastest-growing online retailer, it stocked more than eighteen thousand products for a wide market. Then its posts thinned, its site stopped loading, and it slipped offline with no goodbye. No closing-sale sign, just an empty storefront.

2008 – September 2016E-commerce & Retail🇪🇬 Egypt

FanBants

Here lies FanBants. It turned African football and pop culture into fantasy leagues and prediction markets. Users were asked to withdraw their balances, but the company never predicted its own final score. The shutdown reason remains off the leaderboard.

2021 – December 2025Betting & Prediction Markets🇳🇬 Nigeria

Fibre Lifestyle

Here lies Fibre Lifestyle. It leased homes across Lagos and re-let them to young professionals, promising simple city living. When too many properties underperformed, it terminated leases and pulled back to smaller units, insisting all the while it wasn't leaving. The lease, in the end, was not renewed.

2016 – August 2020Real Estate & Property🇳🇬 Nigeria

Quabbly

Here lies Quabbly. It let African teams build internal tools and automate their databases without writing code. But Excel stayed good enough for most, custom software felt too dear to switch to, and three years on the revenue never cleared a nice-to-have. The domain is now for sale.

2021 – March 2024Developer Tools & Cloud🇳🇬 Nigeria
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What belongs here

Products that shut down, were deliberately sunset, were absorbed into another company or brand, or are confirmed dormant.

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The Liners Graveyard is a documented archive of African software products that no longer operate as independent products. Each complete record explains when the product operated, how it ended, what contributed to the outcome, and which alternatives remain active.

A product may be included when it has shut down, been discontinued by its owner, been absorbed into another company or brand, or remained dormant long enough that it no longer appears to operate. We distinguish those outcomes on each record rather than calling every case a failure.

We review official company announcements, founder statements, credible reporting, archived pages, and other public evidence. Available citations are listed in the Sources section of the product record, and records can be corrected as better evidence emerges.

Shut down means the product's operations ended. Sunset means its owner deliberately discontinued it. Absorbed means it stopped operating independently after a rebrand, merger, or acquisition. Dormant means there are strong signs that the product is inactive, but no definitive closure announcement.

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