March 2026 did not ease in gently. Within the first two weeks alone, Nvidia was redefining the AI hardware race at its GTC conference, SoftBank was lining up tens of billions for OpenAI, Meta was writing cheques to settle child safety verdicts, and African startups were quietly posting one of their strongest funding quarters in recent memory. If you blinked, you missed something significant. That is what this roundup is for. We have gone through everything that happened globally and across Africa this month and pulled out the stories that actually matter, the developments that will shape the next six months of tech conversation. Here is March 2026, broken down clearly. The AI Race Became an Infrastructure War If there is one theme that defined global tech in March 2026, it is this: the AI