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...
By Ziad Hamoui 2025 will be remembered as the year West African trade infrastructure graduated from PowerPoint presentations to bulldozers and rail tracks. After decades of...
By Jastine Martine The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) promises to unite 1.4 billion people across 54 countries into a US$3.4 trillion market. On paper,...
By John Kourkoutas Western companies are losing billions waiting for African roads to look European – while competitors profit on the infrastructure that already exists. The...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly The narrative of African poverty has become the world’s most persistent fiction. It is time to dismantle it entirely. Africa is not...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The Alliance of Sahel States has finally operationalized its founding ambition, but the implications extend far beyond military posturing. What began as...
By Danilo Desiderio Five years into the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the gap between promise and delivery threatens to undermine the continent’s boldest economic...
By Dishant Shah While banks remain flush with capital, millions of African entrepreneurs access credit through trust-based systems that formal institutions fail to recognize. Across Africa,...
By John Kourkoutas Wealthy nations that built their prosperity on fossil fuels now demand developing countries skip the same path. The timing raises uncomfortable questions. A...
By Gregory September China has crossed a historic threshold: a US$1 trillion trade surplus. Even as exports to the United States decline sharply, the world’s second-largest...
By Daki Nkanyane Every awakening carries a cost. To awaken is not merely to see more clearly – it is to become responsible for what one...
By Apollo Buregyeya The 2024 Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) Statistical Abstract reveals a truth that Uganda’s industrial policymakers have studiously avoided confronting. The country’s cement...
By Gregory Simpkins Recently, I wrote about the need for Africa governments to protect their natural and human resources and the need for African leadership to...
By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya What the world called “policy tightening” this year was actually preparation. Africa was setting the stage for 2026 sovereignty. Most observers...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly Africa proclaims the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as the world’s largest free-trade zone, spanning 1.4 billion people across 54 countries...
By Dishant Shah Every few years, Africa receives a new catchphrase. “Africa Rising.” “The Next China.” “The World’s Future Growth Engine.” These slogans circulate through investment...
By Wavinya Makai Pan-Africanism occupies an awkward position in African intellectual discourse. Too often dismissed as mere sentiment rather than rigorous thought, it faces a peculiar...
By Jastine Martine The true measure of a continent’s economic potential lies not in what it has built, but in what it enables. Africa stands at...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo When Airtel Africa announced its partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX this week, it marked more than another corporate deal in the telecommunications...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Southern Africa stands apart. While military coups have swept across West and Central Africa with alarming regularity, the Southern African Development Community...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson “We cannot be beggars in the international community when we have abundant resources. We must have the leverage – and even bring them...
By Daki Nkanyane There is a quiet truth we rarely confront honestly: no continent can rise higher than the inner world of its people. Empires, economies,...
By Sheena Raikundalia The numbers don’t lie: simple farm practices are unlocking US$25–35 million in annual income gains with virtually no climate finance behind them. Yet...
By Lailla Mutajogera This past weekend in Kigali, something far more significant than a routine business meeting unfolded. President Paul Kagame convened with Jack Ma, founder...
By Ajay Wasserman Here is an uncomfortable truth that eludes most Western observers: connectivity has become the defining currency of upward mobility in the 21st century....
By Apollo Buregyeya “It is not possible for us to continue importing cement. We have limestone and all the other raw materials. Somebody needs to explain...
By John Kourkoutas The chasm between corporate ambition and African market reality is littered with failed strategies that never survived contact with the ground. Corporate boardrooms...
By JP Følsgaard Bak The mathematics of transformation are deceptively simple: 54 visionary leaders – one per African state – could fundamentally alter the trajectory of...
By Farhia Noor I come from a continent where leadership was once a responsibility carefully passed from one generation to the next. In our tribes and...
By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya “Africa has 33 currencies, yet none is accepted anywhere on the continent. I fly from Nairobi to Addis Ababa, show my...
By Dishant Shah At first glance, the map appears to be nothing more than a transport plan: rail lines threading through the continent, ports dotting the...
By Danilo Desiderio The global energy conversation is undergoing a profound transformation. As the World Economic Forum recently highlighted, advanced economies are increasingly prioritizing energy security...
By Des H Rikhotso A state-designed electric bus does not typically make international headlines. Yet, the recent arrival of Uganda’s Kayoola Electric Coach in Cape Town,...
By Victory Azimih Africa’s greatest risk is not overpopulation. It is underemployment at scale. Across the continent, the response to insecurity has followed a predictable pattern:...
By Gregory Simpkins Recently, I wrote about the violence and conflict within Africa endangering the progress that has been achieved thus far. However, the current instability...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly A quiet revolution is reshaping Africa’s investment landscape. While traditional Development Finance Institutions remain trapped in endless diagnostics, a parallel story of...
By John Kourkoutas Goldman Sachs projects Nigeria to be the world’s sixth-largest economy by 2075. Yet, in 2025, countless European companies still won’t respond to emails...
By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya A single 15 percent value-added tax (VAT) removal could unlock millions in new exploration capital for Ghana. For decades, that tax...
By Ajay Wasserman The narrative around African capital markets has grown stale. For decades, investors have filed the continent under “emerging markets” – a polite euphemism...
By NJ Ayuk The global energy sector faces a demographic crisis that threatens to reshape the industry’s future – and nowhere is this more consequential than...
By Godfred Zina The ink has barely dried on the U.S.- and Qatar-brokered peace agreement for eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), yet the ground...
By Farouk Mark Mukiibi Some corporate transactions announce themselves with fanfare. Others slip through quietly, their true significance buried in regulatory filings and footnotes. The Safaricom-Vodacom...
By Dishant Shah The world is fracturing along fault lines that would have seemed improbable a decade ago. US-China rivalry has escalated from trade tensions to...
By Daki Nkanyane There are moments in history when a continent doesn’t “rise” – it remembers. Africa stands at precisely such a threshold today. For years,...
By Juwon Akin-Olotu My father posed a deceptively simple question over dinner recently, one that cuts to the heart of West Africa’s agricultural conundrum: Why are...
By Des H Rikhotso The narrative surrounding Africa has shifted dramatically in recent years, and for good reason. While other regions grapple with aging populations and...
By John Kourkoutas Nigeria possesses 37.1 billion barrels of proven oil reserves – more than the United Kingdom and Norway combined. Yet the West African nation...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu A stark challenge has emerged to the diplomatic consensus taking shape in Washington last week: while world powers negotiate with governments over...
By Jastine Martine African businesses moved US$205 billion in cryptocurrency transactions last year. The figure is staggering, but the reason behind it is simple: waiting 45...
By Gregory Simpkins Africa is blessed with natural and human resources. The continent holds 60 percent of the world’s best solar resources, 60 percent of the...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo Technology will not replace farmers. But farmers who embrace technology and master communication will define agriculture’s future – and those who don’t...
By Dishant Shah Africa’s marine resources represent one of the continent’s most overlooked competitive advantages. With sovereign control over 13 million square kilometers (5 million square...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly The arithmetic is brutal: a liter of gasoline in many African cities costs roughly what a gallon – nearly four liters –...
By Des H Rikhotso While Western investors obsess over basis points in saturated markets, a more compelling story is unfolding across Africa. The continent is not...
By Ronald Sanders The governments of the world’s powerful nations have learned to live with disregard for human suffering. That is the bleak truth behind a...
By John Kourkoutas The world’s most intact ecosystems lie in Africa – yet Western nations that destroyed their own forests centuries ago now demand environmental compliance...
By Juwon Akin-Olotu Walk into any international development conference in Europe or the United States, and you will encounter the same carefully curated imagery projected onto...
By NJ Ayuk Vilifying fossil fuels has become fashionable in certain circles these days. Take United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, who recently equated them with war,...
By Des H Rikhotso Nigeria’s maritime sector has delivered a striking performance in early 2025, with exports surging 12 percent in the first half of the...
By Caleb Maru Africa’s venture capital and private equity landscape appears robust on paper. Last year delivered one of the continent’s strongest fundraising performances, with funds...
By Victory Azimih The question facing Africa today is not whether the continent is politically independent – that battle was won decades ago. The question is...
By Farhia Noor The moment I began speaking openly about my continent – simply sharing my truth – everything in my life shifted. I wasn’t loud....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When discussing insecurity in Africa, a familiar narrative often takes hold: widespread chaos, economic paralysis, and state fragility. But reality is rarely...
By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya If you only skimmed the headlines this week, you might conclude that Africa’s story is defined by a single thread: diplomatic...
By Dishant Shah Here is an uncomfortable truth that rarely makes headlines: Africa hemorrhages billions of dollars annually simply moving money within its own borders. Not...
By Gregory Simpkins Africa is home to 11 of the world’s 20 fastest-growing economies in 2024, with countries like Niger, Senegal and Libya leading the charge....
By John Kourkoutas Corporate boardrooms across the developed world repeat the same tired mantra: African infrastructure challenges. Executives bemoan logistics while the Congo River carries more...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo A few days ago, on a farm in Nebraska, I watched a revelation unfold. A farmer demonstrated his tractor – a sophisticated...
By Ajay Wasserman The world came to Africa in 2025 – but not everyone showed up. That, however, turned out to be beside the point. While...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly Africa stands at the precipice of an industrial renaissance. Across the continent, nations are awakening to a powerful truth: true economic sovereignty...
By Lailla Mutajogera More than 80 percent of African migration occurs within national borders – a statistic that deserves far more attention than it receives. From...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Guinea-Bissau’s military has once again seized power, plunging the small West African nation into yet another cycle of political instability. While this...
By Dishant Shah Too often, Africa is discussed as a monolith – a single, undifferentiated market of 1.4 billion people. But the reality is far more...
By NJ Ayuk In May 2021, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its landmark report, Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector....
By Davida Ademuyiwa One of the most persistent and damaging misconceptions about rural electrification in Africa is the assumption that “people can’t pay.” This narrative fundamentally...
By Farhia Noor The older I get, the more certain I become of one inconvenient truth: the world doesn’t misunderstand Africa by accident. It misunderstands Africa...
By Des H. Rikhotso Nestled in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia isn’t just a country – it’s a living chronicle of human history, a mosaic of...
By Wavinya Makai For decades, Africa’s development narrative has been drafted in foreign ministries and multilateral boardrooms. The plot hinges on foreign direct investment, concessional loans,...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo Africa stands at the cusp of a dairy revolution – one that could reshape its agricultural landscape, bolster food security, and drive...
By Farouk Mark Mukiibi We say it often: “Africa has talent.” But if that’s true – and it is – then why does African expertise so...
By Balbir Singh At global forums – from Davos to Addis Ababa – policymakers and development advisors repeat a familiar mantra: Africa must industrialize and boost...
By John Kourkoutas In 1880, roughly 90 percent of Africa remained “unclaimed” by European colonial powers. A map from that year shows a continent mostly in...
By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya When Aliko Dangote announced a US$1 billion investment in Zimbabwe – centered on a 2,000-kilometer (1,243-mile) fuel pipeline stretching from Namibia’s...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Africa’s demographic trajectory is reshaping the global landscape. With more than 1.5 billion people today – double what it was three decades ago...
By Dishant Shah Every conversation about Africa’s economic future eventually circles back to the same question: How do we industrialize at scale, and who leads the...
By Victory Azimih The world is reorganizing into powerful, consolidated blocs. Africa cannot afford to remain the outlier, negotiating as 54 fragmented voices. The cost of...
By Gregory Simpkins In executing a nation’s foreign policy, of course language and actions give an indication of intentions, but governments also must consider how these...
By Des H. Rikhotso Africa’s fintech revolution is no longer a story of isolated outliers – it’s increasingly a tale of dynamic urban hubs driving continent-wide...
By Ajay Wasserman What if the so-called “informal sector” in South Africa isn’t informal at all – but simply formalized in a different register? One that...
By Balbir Singh For decades, academic papers, NGO briefings, donor reports, and media commentary have repeated a single storyline: Africa is chronically food insecure. It is...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu If a wall is to be built between West Africa’s coastal states and the encroaching extremism of the Sahel, it cannot be...
By John Kourkoutas While global manufacturers pursue “China+1” strategies in Asia, a quieter, more profound shift is unfolding in an unexpected corner of the globe. Two...
By Lailla Mutajogera The recent confirmation of a major gold deposit in Kenya, valued at over a billion dollars, has sent predictable ripples through commodity markets...
By Dishant Shah When pundits discuss Africa’s economic future, they often fixate on familiar themes: mineral wealth, youthful demographics, or the rapid adoption of digital technology....
By Curtis Akunfu “A farmer with a hoe cannot compete with a farmer driving a combine harvester.“ This simple truth reverberates across the farmlands of the...
By Farhia Noor In African cosmology, the Harmattan is more than a seasonal wind – it is a revealer. It strips away illusion with its dry,...
By Victory Azimih For much of the past half-century, analysts speculated about when Africa would “rise.” That question is now obsolete. The real issue is how...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Despite home to nearly 18 percent of the world’s population and some of its fastest-growing economies, Africa is projected to contribute less than...
By Godfred Zina The release of Hannibal Gaddafi from a Lebanese prison after a decade of detention without trial is a masterclass in realpolitik, but a...
By Ronald Sanders Sovereignty is supposedly the cornerstone of international order: the formal declaration that every state has the right to govern itself, protect its territory,...
By Martin Mpukani After years marred by debt distress, energy shortages, and climate shocks, Zambia is emerging as one of Africa’s most compelling turnaround stories. The...
By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya Nairobi’s beats echo from Lagos to London, from TikTok feeds to global festival stages. Kenyan artists are topping international charts, collaborating...
By Des H. Rikhotso In boardrooms from London to Singapore, Africa is often discussed in binaries: risk versus reward, chaos versus opportunity, poverty versus potential. Yet...
By Gregory Simpkins Tragically, there is widespread conflict on the continent of Africa. However, none have been quite as vicious and brutal as what has been...
By Ajay Wasserman For decades, Africa’s economic narrative has been tethered to foreign direct investment. While external capital has played a role, it has often arrived...
By Davida Ademuyiwa While headlines often spotlight coups, crises, or commodity booms, one West African nation has been quietly crafting a different narrative – one rooted...