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Kenya scores 69/100 (Grade B), ranking 3rd of 54 African markets and up 1 point since Jan 2026. Its strongest pillar is Connectivity & Fibre at 89 of 100, with two of five pillars rated green. Its largest drag is Currency & GDP, at 33 of 100.
Each pillar carries its own strength out of 100, banded red, amber or green. Arrows mark movement since the previous snapshot.
The composite out of 100 is the weighted sum of these five pillars. A pillar’s figure is its own strength out of 100, measured against the most that pillar could contribute, which is what the red, amber and green bands read against. Full method
Each axis is a pillar as a share of its own maximum, so a balanced market reads as a regular pentagon and a lopsided one as a spike. Hover a point for the exact figure.
Composite readiness across the last six snapshots. Every snapshot is rescored under the current methodology (v1), so points are comparable even as weights evolve.
| Snapshot | Score | Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 2024 | 67 | B · Advancing |
| Jul 2024 | 68 | B · Advancing |
| Jan 2025 | 68 | B · Advancing |
| Jul 2025 | 68 | B · Advancing |
| Jan 2026 | 68 | B · Advancing |
| Jul 2026 | 69 | B · Advancing |
Coverage and digital success stories for Kenya, newest first. Stories published elsewhere link out to the publisher. Everything here is qualitative context; none of it affects the grade.
The State Department for ICT brought operators and cloud providers, iXAfrica, Digital Realty and Oracle among them, into a strategic forum on data centre expansion. The stated aim is a policy framework that positions Kenya as the continent’s digital hub and pulls in foreign investment in compute.
President William Ruto said the geothermal-powered campus planned with Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 would draw about a third of Kenya’s roughly 3,000MW of installed generation. His framing was blunt: switching the site on would mean switching off power for half the country, leaving the project unlikely to proceed as designed.
iXAfrica will act as host partner for an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region in Nairobi, the country’s first public cloud region. It sits on a 22MW hyperscale, carrier-neutral campus built for AI workloads and tied to renewable supply, which moves latency-sensitive workloads onshore for the first time.