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...
By Danilo Desiderio At the World Economic Forum in Davos, a provocative thesis emerged from the corridors of global finance: Africa’s 1.3 billion people represent potential,...
By Davida Ademuyiwa Africa’s investment challenge has never been about the absence of opportunity. Nor, contrary to popular perception, has it primarily been about the availability...
By Daki Nkanyane Work is never just work. It is how people locate themselves in the world. It is how dignity is expressed, how contribution is...
By Lailla Mutajogera Africa’s investment landscape presents a compelling paradox. While Ethiopia surges ahead with breakneck growth rates, South Africa offers the continent’s most sophisticated economy....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The proposition that Africa’s fifty-four sovereign nations should negotiate as a single bloc is not radical – it is rational. Continental political...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson In an era where content creators often shout for attention, Khaby Lame has turned silence into a nearly billion-dollar business model. The Senegalese-Italian...
By Lance Chisue Only a few weeks into 2026, and the signals are already unmistakable. Tariffs, geopolitical fragmentation, and friendshoring are forcing companies to fundamentally rethink...
By John Kourkoutas When Western executives dismiss Africa as “too hot” for serious business operations, they reveal more about their own biases than they do about...
By Endre Vestvik Extraordinary times demand extraordinary thinking. Over the past few weeks, the President of the United States has openly entertained the notion of pressuring...
By Gregory Simpkins In the most recent Habari Network podcast, Habari director Emmanuel Musaazi asked our guest about how Communalism affected business and entrepreneurship in Africa....
By Ziad Hamoui When a Nigerian general recently floated the idea of fencing the country’s borders to combat terrorism, the response was swift and unforgiving. Colleagues...
By Des H Rikhotso While global attention fixates on Tesla’s latest quarterly earnings and Toyota’s hydrogen ambitions, a quieter but potentially more consequential automotive story is...
By Lance Chisue A striking pattern is emerging across Africa’s economic landscape. After decades of fragmented markets and externally oriented trade, the continent is finally turning...
By Balbir Singh The rusting hulk of a 150-horsepower tractor lies submerged in a river in rural Kenya. A sophisticated pivot irrigation system, designed for the...
By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya The “wet ink” era of global trade is entering its twilight. What began as a pilot program linking Shanghai and Singapore...
By Dishant Shah In 1950, fewer than 15 percent of Africans lived in cities. Today, that figure exceeds 40 percent. By 2050, more than 1.4 billion...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Ghana’s president recently articulated what many African leaders are thinking but few dare say aloud: “While no specific name has yet been...
By Gregory September Africa’s largest countries occupy vast expanses of territory. Algeria sprawls across more than 2.3 million square kilometers. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly Global recession anxieties persist. European growth stagnates. Western markets have reached saturation. Yet amid this economic malaise, Africa is demonstrating what resilient...
By Davida Ademuyiwa Middle Eastern capital is no longer a distant promise for Africa – it has arrived, and it is reshaping the continent’s economic landscape...
By NJ Ayuk The refrain echoes across Africa’s energy-rich nations with monotonous regularity: “It’s our oil. It’s our country.” This assertion, while technically correct, masks a...
By Danilo Desiderio Fifteen years after the East African Community (EAC) launched its Common Market Protocol – designed to enable the free movement of people, goods,...
By Ziad Hamoui When the first shipment of Nigerian-manufactured solar panels arrived in Accra last month, it marked more than a commercial transaction. It represented a...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Ethiopia’s ambitious US$12.5 billion airport project at Bishoftu represents far more than an infrastructure upgrade – it signals a fundamental shift in Africa’s...
By Daki Nkanyane There is a moment in the life of every society when progress accelerates faster than understanding. It is a moment filled with movement,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Better late than never – though in geopolitics, lateness often means irrelevance. The Contradictions of French Liberalism Three years ago, I argued...
By Lance Chisue Beijing’s unprecedented tariff elimination for African exports raises a critical question: Will this reshape global trade dynamics, or merely deepen colonial-era dependencies? China...
By John Kourkoutas Fifteen years navigating African frontier markets has taught me one immutable truth: herd behavior dominates investment cycles. Markets panic collectively, flee simultaneously, and...
By Des H Rikhotso As Ethiopia embarks on an ambitious plan to localize currency production, the continent’s banking landscape reveals a striking concentration of financial power...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo Imagine explaining artificial intelligence to a four-year-old child in rural Africa. You wouldn’t begin with algorithms or machine learning models. Instead, you...
By Michele Moscaritoli For decades, Africa occupied a singular role in the global imagination: the perpetual recipient. Aid packages, charitable donations, development programs – always framed...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Can a West African nation plagued by poverty replicate Asia’s most audacious economic miracle? In the pantheon of ambitious national rebranding exercises, few...
By Dishant Shah Viral videos of bare retail shelves across African cities tell a deceptively simple story. But these fleeting social media moments capture something far...
By Gregory Simpkins Throughout 2025, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was considered dead. Legislation extending the trade process failed to get passed in late...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When Washington announced its withdrawal from United Nations agencies providing critical development assistance and humanitarian support to Africa last week, the move...
By Gregory September Nineteen African countries now operate satellites in Earth’s orbit. This transformation happened without slogans, without international fanfare, without the breathless coverage reserved for...
By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya What the world called “Africa’s new investment assertiveness” this year wasn’t disruption – it was execution. Africa didn’t spend 2025 tightening...
By Danilo Desiderio The Brookings Institution’s latest Foresight Africa report lands with uncomfortable precision. Across the continent, fewer than half of citizens trust their presidents. Confidence...
By Victory Azimih For centuries, Africa has endured the label “the dark continent” – a phrase that speaks not to any absence of value, but to...
By Lailla Mutajogera Last year, US$97 billion flowed into Africa – a staggering 75 percent surge that pushed the continent to 6 percent of global foreign...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Two ambitious crown princes have emerged in the Gulf, each possessing formidable charisma, transformative visions for their respective nations, and deeply conservative...
By Danilo Desiderio The continent’s ambitious free trade agreement promises to reshape economic integration – but a tangled web of customs unions and political fractures threatens...
By Ziad Hamoui When more than 60 percent of cross-border trade deliberately avoids official channels, something has gone profoundly wrong with our customs systems. Ghana’s first-ever...
By Daki Nkanyane There comes a moment in the life of every people when the question shifts from what happened to us, to what we will...
By NJ Ayuk The Power Africa initiative was doomed from the start – not because it lacked ambition, but because it was built on ideological rigidity...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly When Saudi Arabia threw open the doors of the Tadawul – the kingdom’s US$3 trillion stock exchange – to all foreign investors...
By Des H Rikhotso Southwestern Africa presents a fascinating study in contrasts. Angola and Namibia share a border, similar climates, and abundant natural resources, yet these...
By Godfred Zina When Ugandans cast their ballots on January 15, 2026, they will confront a defining choice: entrench a system that has governed for four...
By Davida Ademuyiwa Venezuela was once wealthy, with oil anchoring its entire economy. But when a single commodity shoulders the burden of national prosperity, volatility becomes...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson In an era when digital creators wield influence rivaling traditional media, one American YouTuber is undertaking an unprecedented experiment in cultural diplomacy. IShowSpeed...
By Dishant Shah A global consumer goods giant recently withdrew from Nigeria after years of mounting losses. The business press quickly labeled it “another failure in...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In an undergraduate political science seminar years ago, we studied a hierarchy that divided nations into categories: superpowers, great powers, strong states,...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo Every algorithm powering precision agriculture. Every autonomous drone mapping field boundaries. Every self-navigating tractor optimizing fuel consumption. None of them materialized overnight....
By Gregory Simpkins The recent American incursion into Venezuela and arrest on drug and other charges of de facto leader Nicolás Maduro and wife Cilia shocked...
By Michele Moscaritoli Intra-African commerce has quietly transformed from aspiration to reality – and the implications are profound. For decades, the refrain echoed through development conferences...
By Danilo Desiderio As preferential trade agreements multiply and global commerce expands, a troubling pattern has emerged: the environmental costs of liberalized trade remain largely invisible...
By John Kourkoutas Building for Europe’s Shrinking Market While Ignoring Africa’s Demographic Explosion Is the Century’s Most Expensive Mistake. By the time today’s newborns reach their...
By Godfred Zina For more than three decades, Somaliland has governed itself as a de facto state, maintaining stability while its parent nation, Somalia, struggled with...
By Kei Rapodile The rules of global trade are being rewritten – and Africa’s exporters are scrambling to adapt. With the African Growth and Opportunity Act...
By Curtis Akunfu Right now in Ghana, farmers are sitting on surplus while households struggle to eat. Rice, maize, and soybeans are piling up in warehouses...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The collapse of the G5 Sahel should serve as a wake-up call: African states cannot defeat violent extremism through fragmented, go-it-alone strategies....
By Danilo Desiderio The global trading system is fracturing, and Africa faces a pivotal choice: become a strategic player or remain a passive bystander in a...
By Kingsley Moghalu In a recent commentary, I argued that foreign debt is strangling Africa’s development in fundamental ways. Some economists contend that African nations should...
By Godfred Zina When Washington intervened in Venezuela, the response from African capitals was swift and notably unified. Yet this wasn’t about taking sides in Latin...
By Ronald Sanders The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) faces a defining moment. As external pressures mount and powerful nations recalibrate their demands, the 15-member bloc must abandon...
By Farhia Noor An African proverb warns: “When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.” The recent escalation of American policy toward Venezuela represents far...
By Dishant Shah Development Finance Institutions have long pledged to “de-risk Africa” for private investment. Yet too often, their efforts stall not on the factory floor...
By Ziad Hamoui Every year, somewhere between US$10 billion and US$24 billion worth of goods crosses African borders in what the United Nations Economic Commission for...
By Daki Nkanyane Every generation inherits a moment it did not choose and leaves behind a future it will never fully see. This is the quiet,...
By Victory Azimih A troubling contradiction haunts African development: we discuss building the continent everywhere except where construction actually happens. African leaders, policymakers, and investors shuttle...
By Godfred Zina As global power shifts accelerate, African nations are abandoning diplomatic deference in favor of strategic reciprocity – and the consequences could reshape international...
By Danilo Desiderio The persistent shortfall in domestic savings represents one of the most binding structural constraints on Africa’s long-term growth and economic transformation. Sub-Saharan Africa...
By Gregory September In two decades, China constructed more than 50,000 kilometers (31,069 miles) of high-speed rail – a network that now dwarfs the combined systems...
By John Kourkoutas Half the continent’s investment rankings remained static. The other half underwent a dramatic reshuffle. If your 2026 Africa strategy mirrors your 2024 playbook,...
By Dishant Shah For over a century, Africa has been subjected to relentless scrutiny – by colonial offices, foreign ministries, extractive industries, intelligence services, development banks,...
By Gregory Simpkins As we have entered 2026, the world community is experiencing heightened tensions and could lead to global conflict. As has been the case...
By Danilo Desiderio On January 2nd, heavy weapons fire shattered the uneasy calm at Nadapal, a remote border post between Kenya and South Sudan. Clashes between...
By Lailla Mutajogera As returns compress across mature Asian markets, East Africa offers investors a compelling alternative: markets where fundamentals are improving faster than asset prices....
By Ryan Elcock Canada’s recently released Senate report on its Africa Strategy reads like a medical diagnosis that stops just short of prescribing treatment. After a...
By Ziad Hamoui Official trade statistics capture barely a sixth of West Africa’s actual regional food trade. This massive data gap is undermining food security and...
By Kingsley Moghalu A striking statistic from The Africa Report crystallizes the continent’s fiscal crisis: many of Africa’s poorest countries now spend more on debt service...
By Des H Rikhotso Ugandan students have engineered portable solar-powered tents that collapse into backpacks, offering homeless populations and displaced communities a dignified solution to one...
By Apollo Buregyeya True economic development demands competence over charisma, and infrastructure over influence. Politicians don’t build nations – they often break them. Captains of industry...
By John Dale For decades, Africa’s agricultural challenges have provided fodder for countless panel discussions, media interviews, and development conferences. The narrative is familiar: inadequate infrastructure,...
By Juwon Akin-Olotu The year 2025 tested agribusiness leaders across Africa with relentless volatility: devastating floods in northern regions, stubborn inflation eroding margins, and supply chains...
By Daki Nkanyane Every awakening carries a hidden danger. Not resistance. Not external opposition. Not even failure. The greatest danger of any awakening is forgetting why...
By Wavinya Makai Africa is not short of intelligence. It is short of courage at the top. The crisis defining contemporary Africa is not one of...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When Israel formally recognized Somaliland earlier this week, the international community responded with predictable outrage. The African Union (AU) condemned the move....
By NJ Ayuk The digital economy’s insatiable appetite for computing power may prove the catalyst Africa’s electrical infrastructure desperately needs. A quarter-century into the digital age,...
By Dishant Shah Ethiopia’s manufacturing surge reveals what economists often miss: successful industrialization isn’t about speed – it’s about sequence. A headline slipped through global business...
By Lailla Mutajogera If Europe hasn’t delivered the returns you were chasing, it may be time to redirect your attention to West Africa – not impulsively...
By Des H Rikhotso The narrative around African investment has shifted from cautious optimism to calculated urgency. While much of the developed world grapples with demographic...
By Gregory Simpkins US President Donald Trump often makes grandiose threats and statements without carrying them out. Several weeks ago, he warned of a military response...
By Danilo Desiderio The African continent stands at a critical inflection point. While modest economic gains suggest forward momentum, the reality beneath the headline numbers tells...
By Farhia Noor As the year draws to a close, I find myself reflecting with gratitude – not merely on the work we accomplish, but on...