By Gregory Simpkins Recently, the United Nations passed a resolution labeling the trans-Atlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity.” This resolution was championed by...
By Lailla Mutajogera The most important investment opportunity of the next decade is not in artificial intelligence, not in green energy, and not in the next...
How a technologically escalating conflict is reshaping the security architecture of an entire region.
By Franco Bonghan Mozambique’s early repayment of its US$701 million IMF debt is a symbolic earthquake in a continent long portrayed as permanently indebted. As of...
The country has unveiled the most detailed artificial intelligence strategy in Southern Africa. Whether it can survive contact with reality is another question entirely.
A landmark East African railway deal shows that dismantling invisible trade barriers is just as critical as laying tracks - a lesson West Africa urgently needs...
By Danilo Desiderio Trade is often framed in abstract terms – GDP growth, tariff schedules, and balance-of-payments statistics – but for millions of small-scale entrepreneurs in...
The signals coming out of Nairobi suggest that the continent's food systems may finally be turning a corner - not through aid, but through architecture.
A quiet revolution in cooling infrastructure is underway in the heart of Africa - and the world should be paying attention.
Paul Isaac Musasizi didn't wait for foreign validation. He built the factory, drove the bus across six nations, and signed a $250 million deal. Africa's industrial...
Kinshasa's pledge to neutralize the Hutu rebel group is overdue - and its success is far from guaranteed.
Why the world's fastest-growing continent pays the highest price to borrow - and what it is doing about it.
The narrative of a continent perpetually on the cusp of its moment has expired. Global capital is arriving now, and the window for early-mover advantage is...
Africa is being asked to trade biological sovereignty for short-term aid. This time, it is pushing back.
By Daki Nkanyane For most of modern history, security meant soldiers, fortified borders, and the threat of armed enemies crossing lines drawn on maps. A country...
The numbers on the map tell two very different stories. The question is which one you choose to read.
The region is no longer just a commodity play. A sweeping green recalibration, a digital infrastructure surge, and long-overdue trade reforms are converging to create one...
True independence is never handed over. It is engineered - through infrastructure, industrialization, discipline, and the political courage to act.
Houthi missile strikes on Israel are reviving the strategic logic behind a little-noticed diplomatic gambit - and the Horn of Africa may pay the price.
The new wave of foreign direct investment is abandoning megaprojects for distributed, structural bets that are harder to unwind - and smarter to hold.
The Emirates are quietly turning the continent’s most fertile soil into a foreign pantry - and Africa’s leaders are "muted."
By Gregory Simpkins The United States’ relationship with Cuba has been long and troubled to say the least. At various times, the United States has been...
By Dishant Shah In 1993, a Zimbabwean engineer applied for a license to build a mobile phone network in his country. His own government spent the...
The world isn't racing toward the future - it's racing back to scarcity. And no continent understands scarcity like Africa.
By Ziad Hamoui Last month, from Ghanaian President Mahama’s appearance at the World Governments Summit in Dubai to his state visit to Zambia, the political will...
The continent's agricultural crises are not accidents of nature. They are the predictable consequences of certainty without evidence.
The Iran conflict is a distant war with a continent-wide lesson: resource wealth means nothing without the systems to defend it.
A diversified economy, integrated value chains, and regional dominance make East Africa's powerhouse impossible to ignore.
By Balbir Singh There is a question that haunts every serious observer of international development: with billions of dollars flowing into agricultural programs across Africa and...
In Tunisian ports, cranes move to a rhythm set in Brussels. Ships laden with olive oil and textiles depart northward, while the young workers on the...
The Horn of Africa sits at the center of global trade - yet still has no seat at the table where the rules are made.
By Wavinya Makai Across the African continent, elections unfold with ritual precision. Ballots are printed, campaigns are waged, international observers are deployed, and citizens queue patiently...
Why modern influence wears a suit, not a uniform - and what Africa must do about it.
Treating Africa as a single market is the costliest mistake an exporter can make.
By Franco Bonghan When Burkina Faso banned fresh tomato exports to feed its own processing plants, it did more than protect a crop. It quietly repudiated...
Why Africa's shift from the franchise dealer model to agency-based automotive retail could reshape the continent’s car industry - and who stands to benefit most.
The campaign to block African oil and gas development isn't environmentalism - it's a new form of colonial paternalism.
Long before empires carved borders and scribes pressed reed to clay, Africa was already keeping records - in stone.
The US$91 billion that moves quietly across continents each year dwarfs the headlines given to IMF programs and World Bank loans - and it comes with...
For once, both Kigali and the rebels are negotiating under genuine pressure - and that changes everything.
The continent's trade volumes are climbing. Its production structures are not. That distinction will define Africa's economic future.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is not a nation waiting to be discovered. It is one already doing the heavy lifting - for the world's...
The 2026 Cost of Living Index tells a story most boardrooms haven't read yet - and the ones that do will rewrite their competitive futures.
By Ziad Hamoui Multilateral Development Banks now account for more than half of Africa’s net financial flows – a 124 percent increase that is fueling one...
By Gregory Simpkins Those of us who consume British television shows and movies often see a multicultural society in which Black and White citizens mix easily...
The continent's data center deficit is the most consequential infrastructure gap in the global digital economy. The investors who recognize this first will shape how Africa's...
A bold new mining code is redirecting wealth to local communities - and the rest of the continent is taking notes.
Three and a half decades after breaking free from apartheid rule, Namibia's Independence Day remains a defiant celebration of memory, resilience, and reinvention.
The continent's investment gap is real - but capital is not what is missing.
The continent's coming workforce explosion demands a new kind of farming - and technology may be the catalyst that makes it possible.
The continent's energy deficit is not merely an infrastructure failure. It is a crisis of sovereignty - and the clock is running out.
When a global food giant quietly reformulates its products to strip out the world's most iconic ingredient, it isn't just a story about confectionery - it's...
The continent's visa regime is not a footnote to its economic ambitions - it is a direct contradiction of them.
By Danilo Desiderio A useful lens for understanding why some regions industrialized faster than others is to look past what they produced and examine instead how...
Professionals who have operated on both sides of the automotive industry - at the corporate level and on the retail floor - possess a strategic edge...
The continent has a rare opportunity - not to replicate a mature ecosystem, but to outsequence one.
A bold genetic gambit could reshape the Sahel nation's food economy - if the politics hold
From Casablanca to Kigali, a continent-wide network of industrial zones is quietly becoming one of the most consequential developments in 21st-century trade.
By Ajay Wasserman One of the most persistently misunderstood realities of building companies in Africa is that opportunity is rarely the binding constraint. Across the continent,...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly Africa is the world’s youngest continent – and that is not merely a demographic footnote. With a median age of just 19.7...
By Daki Nkanyane The world is sorting itself into camps again. Africa is being asked – sometimes diplomatically, sometimes with barely disguised coercion – to pick...
By Danilo Desiderio Africa’s trade lifelines run through a handful of critical maritime chokepoints. That geographic reality is both a testament to the continent’s integration into...
By John Kourkoutas Look at a map of urban agglomerations below – cities with populations exceeding one million – and a stark pattern emerges. The United...
The conflict in the Gulf is not a distant abstraction. Its economic shockwaves are already lapping at Caribbean shores.
By Charles F.V. Chitekwe In a move that deserves far more global attention than it has received, Rwanda has eliminated visa fees for citizens of all...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu On Saturday, March 14, 2026, Rwanda announced it may pull its troops from Cabo Delgado, the northern Mozambican province where an Islamist...
His Best Actor win for "Sinners" is a milestone - but the numbers behind it are a sobering reminder of how far Hollywood still has to...
When the world said no, Ethiopia said: watch us.
By Dishant Shah The most powerful river in Africa carves its way through one of its most troubled nations. The Congo River’s hydroelectric potential is, by...
The continent has frameworks. What it still lacks is the resilience to survive the next shock.
By Gregory Simpkins High levels of debt have long plagued some African countries (as well as other countries worldwide). High government debt can have far-reaching impacts...
By Lailla Mutajogera Global attention is currently fixed on the escalating tensions between Iran and the United States. For many observers, particularly in the West, this...
By Ziad Hamoui Africa controls roughly 30 percent of the world’s mineral reserves. By mid-century, its population will surpass 2.5 billion, making it home to the...
As the post-war international order fractures and a multipolar world takes shape, the most consequential strategic alliance of the 21st century may be the one that...
By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya Africa is routinely described as one of the world’s most compelling investment frontiers. At gatherings from the Africa CEO Forum to...
The continent is on track to house nearly four billion people by century's end. Whether that becomes the world's greatest economic opportunity- or its most destabilizing...
By Dishant Shah Across sub-Saharan Africa, the last mile of commerce isn’t a digital platform. It’s a relationship – and the brands that understand this are...
By Michele Moscaritoli As foreign direct investment falters and aid budgets shrink, one capital flow has remained remarkably steady. Operators who understand why are building businesses...
By Daki Nkanyane There is a moment in the life of a rising continent when attention begins to feel like validation. Summits multiply. Partnerships are announced...
Responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions, Africa bears a disproportionate share of climate change's most devastating consequences. The world must stop treating...
From Ivory Coast's cocoa fields to South Africa's citrus groves, ten nations are reshaping global food supply chains - and signaling that Africa's agricultural moment has...
Africa's Eurobond surge is more than a balance-sheet problem. It is a structural challenge to sovereign economic decision-making - and the continent's thinkers are demanding a...
Why “Too Big to Fail” No Longer Holds
Across the continent, brilliant entrepreneurial ideas are dying in the gap between inspiration and execution. Venture builders - disciplined, factory-style startup studios - may be the...
By 2100, Africa could account for nearly nine in ten people shared between the two continents. The implications reach far beyond population statistics - they extend...
By Lance Chisue The dust has barely settled on the 2026 SADC Sustainable Energy Week in Victoria Falls, and one thing is abundantly clear: Southern Africa...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In mid-2022, West African heads of state made a pragmatic, if uncomfortable, concession. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) lifted...
The old assumption - that industrialization is engineered within national borders - has expired. Africa's economic future will be shaped not by the walls that divide...
A new payment partnership between PAPSS and Kenya’s PesaLink is doing what roads and railways alone never could: making intra-African trade genuinely frictionless.
Africa's industrial ambitions will remain illusory until energy is treated not as infrastructure, but as the foundation of sovereign economic strategy.
By Gregory Simpkins Global conflicts and policy shifts inevitably affect Africa and its Diaspora. In the current expanding conflict in the Middle East, economist Kasirim Nwuke,...
The data on global immigration reveals a striking paradox: while the world debates African emigration, the deeper economic challenge is the continent's near-total absence from the...
By Danilo Desiderio Africa is no longer simply a talking point at international summits. It is fast becoming one of the world’s most fiercely contested economic...
By Ryan Elcock The world changed on February 28, 2026. Not incrementally – not in the slow, grinding way that economists debate in retrospect – but...
By Gregory September Namibia’s sparse population is not a policy failure. It is the verdict of geography – and understanding it reframes some of Africa’s most...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo Across the rural communities of sub-Saharan Africa, a quiet paradox plays out each harvest season. Tomatoes blush red in the midday sun....
By John Kourkoutas Forget the GDP charts. Forget the foreign direct investment heatmaps. Forget the trade-flow diagrams and the color-coded risk indexes that have become the...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was supposed to revolutionize African commerce. Five years after trading officially commenced, the world’s largest free...
By Michele Moscaritoli Nigeria’s slowdown is a reminder that regional growth figures can flatter to deceive – and that smart investors build structure, not just exposure....
By Des H Rikhotso President Duma Boko’s refusal to visit the White House signals a bolder African posture on sovereignty – and may be backed by...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly Before the latest escalation in the Middle East, the baseline forecasts looked manageable, if uneven. Global average food inflation was projected at...
By Daki Nkanyane Africa’s growing relevance is structural, not sentimental. The world has run out of ways to plan the future without it. For a long...
By Victory Azimih The next global crisis will not originate in financial markets. It will begin in the world’s food systems. Nations that cannot feed themselves...
By Kingsely Moghalu Even before the rapid, ongoing reconfiguration of global order, Africa was always mostly on the menu – not at the table. That African...
By Apollo Buregyeya As the world marks World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development on March 4, 2026, Africa finds itself at a defining crossroads. The global...
By Charles F.V. Chitekwe Across Africa, a quiet but consequential revolt against conditional aid is gathering momentum – and the United States should pay close attention....
By Mark-Anthony Johnson The Scramble for Africa stands as one of history’s most audacious acts of collective dispossession. A century later, its consequences remain very much...
By Lance Chisue As regional integration deepens, the choice for manufacturers is no longer whether to automate – but how to do it intelligently. Southern Africa...
By Ziad Hamoui The numbers are in – and they signal something far more consequential than a quarterly trade report. Nigeria raked in US$3.2 billion from...
By Dishant Shah The continent’s youth bulge is not a development story. It is a structural macro-investment thesis – and the window to act is narrowing....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The continent can no longer afford to wait for the world’s attention to turn its way. As conflict in the Middle East...
By Danilo Desiderio African governments can mobilize overnight to serve a foreign trade partner. Yet they stall for years when asked to integrate with each other....
By Gregory Simpkins I recently read an article that peaked my interest in examining Diaspora connections to Mother Africa and her people. Writing in the Worcester...
By Charles F.V. Chitekwe The African diaspora, and Black Americans in particular, represent one of the most powerful and untapped pools of capital, talent, and market...
By Gregory September Fifty-four countries. Over 1.4 billion people. A continent whose geological, biological, and civilizational history underlies the entire human story. And yet, when African...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson When Egyptian deputy transport minister Hossam El-Din Mustafa announced in November 2025 that roughly 80 percent of the Cairo-Cape Town Highway had been...
By Lailla Mutajogera The continent sitting atop the world’s most coveted resources keeps exporting its wealth before it has a chance to build any. Africa generates...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Record remittance flows are eclipsing foreign aid – and as Washington turns off the tap, the continent’s diaspora may be stepping in to...
By John Kourkoutas Everyone, it seems, is talking about China’s ports in Africa. Policymakers, investors, and analysts have spent years debating Beijing’s coastal ambitions – the...
By Danilo Desiderio The continent’s ambitious trade agreements look impressive on paper. Yet beneath the institutional architecture lies a troubling reality: economic unity remains more aspiration...
By Caleb Maru A few weeks ago, one of Africa’s most ambitious climate-tech startups quietly ceased to exist. KOKO Networks, a Kenya-based company that had spent...
By Ajay Wasserman The debt markets are sending a clear message – and this time, African economies are listening carefully. The bond market is speaking. For...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The violent aftermath of a drug kingpin’s elimination offers a sobering warning for a continent that may be sleepwalking into a narco-state...
By Des H Rikhotso A bold infrastructure push promises to compress travel times, unlock regional trade, and redefine what connectivity means for a continent long underserved...
By Dishant Shah Most conversations about Africa begin the same way. Someone leans across a boardroom table and asks: “Is it safe?” Another follows with: “Can...
By Daki Nkanyane Every civilization, at some point, must confront a question older than economics, politics, or statecraft: What does it mean to live well? Not...
By Victory Azimih The first three parts of this series established a doctrine – spare in language but weighty in implication. Infrastructure builds capacity. Industry builds...
By Lance Chisue The continent’s true competitive advantage lies in its people – and the leaders who invest in them know it. For generations, the story...
By NJ Ayuk For decades, Africa’s relationship with global energy markets followed a familiar pattern: extract, export, repeat. The continent supplied the crude while others refined...
By Ziad Hamoui Building roads is the easy part. The real obstacle to regional trade lies in the invisible infrastructure that no construction crew can fix....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The destabilization of the Sahel did not happen overnight. It is the product of decades of political failure, opportunistic radicalism, and the...
By Gregory September The IMF’s 2026 global growth projections tell a story of seismic economic shifts – and one African nation’s quiet but consequential arrival. When...
By Michele Moscaritoli The most consequential shift in African commerce isn’t happening across oceans. It’s happening across borders. For decades, the narrative around African trade focused...
By Ajay Wasserman South Africa’s official unemployment rate has declined. On the surface, that is cause for cautious optimism. According to Statistics South Africa, the latest...
By Dishant Shah The real question isn’t whether zero-tariff access helps Africa. It’s who captures the value – and who gets left holding the commodity. If...
By Gregory Simpkins Much has been written and said in the wake of the recent passing of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. He was an important figure...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo The dazzling machines on display in Kentucky made one thing clear: the real frontier of agricultural AI is not in the field...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson From raw bean to finished bar, Africa’s top producers are demanding a seat at the table – and the economics are finally catching...
By Juwon Akin-Olotu Africa’s agricultural economy does not need faster unicorns. It needs a fundamentally different animal. There is a particular kind of hubris that travels...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Economic inequality remains the defining fault line of African political stability – and the world’s emerging powers are taking notice. For a...
By Kei Rapodile Multinational corporations that retreat from African electoral uncertainty will cede ground to those with the discipline to stay. Africa is entering one of...
By Ziad Hamoui Three months of uncertainty revealed what reliance on non-reciprocal arrangements truly costs the continent. The US House of Representatives approved the African Growth...
By Farhia Noor As the 2026 FIFA tournament approaches, visa restrictions threaten to exclude millions of African fans from the world’s greatest sporting event. Today, I...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly The numbers tell a peculiar story. Africa’s projected debt-to-GDP ratio stands at 60.8 percent for 2026 – a figure that would be...
By Lance Chisue The just-released Where to Invest in Africa 2025/26 report from Rand Merchant Bank analyzes 31 key economies covering approximately 90 percent of Africa’s...
By Victory Azimih The artificial intelligence revolution offers African nations a historic opportunity – but only if they transform education into industrial power. In Parts 1...
By Sheena Raikundalia US President Trump’s decision to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act through December 2026 has sparked jubilation in Nairobi. But beneath the...
By Ronald Sanders When migration routes close, nations confront an uncomfortable truth: their real immigration policy isn’t written in visa regulations – it’s embedded in how...
By Des H Rikhotso Despite geopolitical headwinds and persistent challenges, African economies are demonstrating remarkable adaptability and growth potential. The narrative surrounding Africa’s economic prospects has...
By Daki Nkanyane Every society eventually confronts an uncomfortable truth: institutions cannot outgrow the people who build them. Across Africa today, cranes dot urban skylines, fiber-optic...
By Gregory Simpkins Africa has long been a target of outside interests looking to capitalize on what the continent has to offer. The 19th-century European exploration...
By Ajay Wasserman South Africa has executed a calculated maneuver that could redefine Africa’s position in global trade architecture – a strategic pivot that reshapes continental...
By Balbir Singh International development organizations are pushing outdated agricultural models that ignore ground realities and perpetuate poverty. A recent high-level meeting with delegates from international...
By Victory Azimih In Part 1, we established that independence is fundamentally a systems problem – that Africa’s future hinges on the capacity to design, finance,...
By Gregory September Regional cooperation just got real. Landlocked Mali can now reach the Atlantic. For landlocked nations, geography is often destiny. Mali, nestled deep in...
By Michele Moscaritoli Africa’s largest economy offers unmatched opportunity – but investors are waiting for the fog to clear. Nigeria should dominate every emerging-market investment ranking....
By Ziad Hamoui The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) recently closed a US$1.75 billion receivables purchase facility for Angola’s Sonangol HR, serving as mandated lead arranger and...
By Farhia Noor The continent’s partnerships with emerging powers demand scrutiny, not celebration. I am African. I read. I observe. I listen. I reflect. My elders...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Great-power competition has returned to Africa. But this is no simple reprise of the Cold War – it is more chaotic, more...
By Danilo Desiderio The refrain echoes through conference halls from Addis Ababa to Cape Town with predictable regularity: Africa must stop exporting raw materials and start...
By John Kourkoutas A cartographic revelation exposes the fundamental flaw in how businesses approach the continent’s 1.4 billion consumers. For decades, multinational corporations and investors have...
By Dishant Shah The era of potential has ended. Africa’s execution phase has begun. More than US$200 billion in transformative infrastructure projects are fundamentally reconfiguring Africa’s...
By Ronald Sanders February 7 is more than just a date on Haiti’s political calendar – it’s a marker of the collapse of an experiment that...
By Wavinya Makai The African Union’s support for the Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) is one of the most consequential developments in Africa’s financial history, even...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Strategic equity demands and infrastructure investments signal a new era of African economic sovereignty. The landscape of African resource control is undergoing...
By Danilo Desiderio Africa’s demographic surge presents both an extraordinary opportunity and a formidable challenge. By 2050, the continent’s least developed countries will need to absorb...
By Jastine Martine For decades, America’s engagement with Africa has revolved around aid, humanitarian assistance, and security cooperation. Now, amid significant budget cuts, domestic political pressures,...
By Victory Azimih Power is rarely lost first on the battlefield. It is lost in identity, confidence, memory, and long-term intent. Psalm 137 captures this with...
By Ajay Wasserman Africa’s capital markets are rewiring themselves beneath the surface – not through breathless headlines or speculative hype, but through strategic control, institutional governance,...
By Daki Nkanyane Every society carries weight. Some burdens are visible – poverty, inequality, underdevelopment, conflict. Others are structural – institutions shaped by interruption, economies molded...
By Des H Rikhotso As major economies decelerate, the continent’s structural transformation is rewriting the global growth narrative. The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) projections reveal...
By Lance Chisue Africa’s manufacturing sector is experiencing an unprecedented surge as nations across the continent compete to industrialize and expand production capacity. The transformation signals...
By Dishant Shah A young population is only a dividend if there’s something to divide. This fundamental truth exposes the critical flaw in optimistic projections about...
By Gregory Simpkins In the midst of the chaos surrounding the removal of illegal immigrants in Minnesota, especially Somalis, an immigration change that threatens the removals...
By Ziad Hamoui Africa is projected to be the world’s fastest-growing region in 2026, expanding at 4.0–4.3 percent according to the United Nations World Economic Situation...
By Farhia Noor The Sahel is teaching the world a lesson it had forgotten: Africa is neither weak nor helpless. And it is certainly not for...
By Paa-Kwesi Heto The Mahama administration’s proposal to rename Kotoka International Airport represents far more than administrative housekeeping. It’s a long-overdue reckoning with how Ghana presents...
By NJ Ayuk A troubling pattern has emerged in how the global energy industry engages with Africa – one that demands immediate attention and action. Across...
By Gregory September Ethiopia is not merely pursuing the 2028 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) – it is wagering its political resurgence on it. This ambitious...
By Juwon Akin-Olotu ₦2.2 trillion (US$1.6 billion) allocated for agriculture. Record budget figures. Renewed hope for food security. These were the headlines that dominated Nigeria’s agricultural...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Most African nations inherited their juridical sovereignty from colonial administrations that dominated the continent from the mid-19th century. Their borders – drawn...
By Daki Nkanyane Faith has always been close to the African soul. Long before modern borders and imported institutions, African societies carried a deep awareness of...
By John Kourkoutas While businesses plan for tomorrow’s Africa, they are overlooking today’s megacities. The narrative surrounding African urbanization suffers from a dangerous misconception: that it...
By Lailla Mutajogera The secret to profitable manufacturing in Africa isn’t capital, risk assessment, or even sector selection – it’s understanding who needs your factory to...
By Lance Chisue The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) represents one of the most ambitious economic integration projects of the 21st century. Uniting 1.3 billion...
By Dishant Shah The dominance of finished goods in African markets isn’t about capability – it’s about cold economic calculation. Local manufacturing across Africa isn’t failing...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu For decades, Liberia stood as a beacon of stability in West Africa. Then came the late 1980s, when civil war shattered that...
By Michele Moscaritoli West Africa is recalibrating its economic compass – not outward toward traditional global markets, but inward, across its own borders. The shift is...
By Gregory Simpkins In recent weeks, the island of Greenland has become a hot international topic. It has been at the top of the agenda for...
By Ziad Hamoui Ghana’s president is right to call current trade arrangements neo-colonial. But diagnosis without execution changes nothing. Ghana produces the cocoa. Switzerland pockets US$130...
By Gregory September In the complex landscape of African sovereign debt, Nigeria has achieved something noteworthy – yet the silence surrounding this accomplishment speaks volumes about...
By Dishant Shah The unit economics of manufacturing reveal that low wages mean little without productivity to match. The conventional wisdom about African manufacturing rests on...
By John Dale The promise of agricultural technology often comes wrapped in seductive rhetoric: disintermediation, direct-to-consumer models, blockchain traceability that “cuts out the middleman.” Yet this...
By John Kourkoutas The question isn’t whether Africa represents opportunity – with 1.4 billion consumers and GDP growth rates consistently outpacing developed markets, that debate is...
By Des H Rikhotso The mathematics of African prosperity tell a stark story. While the continent’s combined gross domestic product is projected to reach US$3.32 trillion...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly China’s strategic expansion across Africa’s coastline represents more than infrastructure development. It signals a fundamental recalibration of global economic power, one that...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The pattern has become grimly familiar across Africa: military coups followed by promises of democratic transition, then a return to authoritarianism. But...
By Danilo Desiderio The proposition that Africa’s single market will collapse without a supranational court is simultaneously persuasive and fundamentally flawed. Persuasive, because it accurately diagnoses...
By Ronald Sanders When powerful states make policy decisions, small states reflexively personalize them. When small states fragment, powerful states need not justify their actions at...
By Ziad Hamoui The African Export-Import Bank’s recent decision to sever ties with Fitch Ratings signals more than a routine disagreement over financial assessment. It exposes...