How a conceptual shift in African trade thinking is reframing regionalism as a tool for governing shared risk - not merely expanding market.
The Trans-African Highway Network is closer to completion than ever - but formidable obstacles remain between ambition and asphalt.
The real barrier to African integration is no longer a shortage of roads and ports - it is the stubborn failure to stitch existing assets into...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Africa stands at an inflection point. For decades, the continent’s economies have been locked into a colonial-era pattern – exporting raw commodities to...
The continent does not only lose wealth at the port. It loses power along the value chain.
The real barriers to African commerce have never been tariffs. They are the invisible frictions that strangle trade before goods ever reach a buyer. That may...
By Jacqueléne Coetzer Africa is producing world-class goods. From the sun-dried botanicals of the Sahel to the precision-engineered components rolling out of Gauteng, the continent’s entrepreneurs...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Every passport tells a story of belonging. In the world of trade, goods have their own version – a set of technical criteria...
When powerful nations wage trade wars, the cost is always borne by those who had no voice in starting them.
The data from 2025 and 2026 tells a story of institutional resilience, sustained momentum, and a continent that the global narrative has persistently underestimated.
Why Africa must stop confusing potential with strategy
By Ziad Hamoui The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) are preparing to pilot a pan-African digital trade finance...
What the continent calls "development challenges" are, in many cases, the predictable outputs of infrastructure designed for extraction, not integration.
A landmark World Bank report challenges the orthodoxy of African trade policy - and the timing could not be more consequential.
Africa must stop treating its most ambitious development blueprint as ceremonial scripture - and start deploying it as a binding contract with the world.
A landmark African Union ruling on automotive rules of origin creates a historic opening for continental manufacturing. But preferential tariffs alone cannot substitute for functional trade...
While the Middle East descends into conflict and disruption, exporters still clinging to Gulf markets are ignoring a continent-sized opportunity taking shape right before them.
A bold move by President Mahama on Africa Day signals that Pan-African free movement may finally be crossing from aspiration into policy.
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...
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...
Treating Africa as a single market is the costliest mistake an exporter can make.
The continent's trade volumes are climbing. Its production structures are not. That distinction will define Africa's economic future.
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...
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.
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 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 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...
The continent has frameworks. What it still lacks is the resilience to survive the next shock.
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...
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...
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Kelly Mua Kingsly The arithmetic is brutal: a liter of gasoline in many African cities costs roughly what a gallon – nearly four liters –...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 John Kourkoutas When most European executives think of African industry, they picture mines, quarries, and raw commodity exports. But while that narrative persists in boardrooms...
By Dishant Shah Cocoa has sweetened balance sheets from Zurich to New York for over a century – but in the very soils where it’s grown,...
By Dishant Shah Africa’s greatest obstacle was never its colonial-era borders. It was the enduring belief in their permanence – the idea that African economies must...
By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya Africa stands at a pivotal crossroads. The dream of a truly integrated continent – bound by one passport, one customs regime,...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly Africa is the silent engine of the global economy – its soil rich with the very minerals that power electric vehicles, its...
By Godfred Zina Every year, Africa hemorrhages approximately US$5 billion – not to corruption or illicit financial flows, but to a quieter, systemic flaw: the continent’s...
By Davida Ademuyiwa Africa stands at a historic inflection point. Across the continent, economies are growing, cities are expanding, and a youthful, tech-savvy population is demanding...
By Danilo Desiderio Four years after its historic launch, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) remains a promise more than a practice. Conceived as the...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Africa stands at a historic inflection point. By 2026, the continent’s economy is projected to reach US$3.32 trillion – a figure that commands...
By Dishant Shah In diplomatic corridors and boardrooms across the continent, a familiar question echoes: “Should Africa align with India or China?” The premise is flawed...
By Godfred Zina After emerging from the ashes of the 2010–11 post-election violence – a crisis that left over 3,000 dead and deepened national fractures –...
By Danilo Desiderio For decades, a persistent narrative has shadowed Africa’s economic trajectory: the continent exports what it doesn’t consume and imports what it needs. A...
By Des H Rikhotso As Africa navigates a decade of transformation, its economic landscape is evolving with remarkable speed and complexity. Driven by a confluence of...
By Danilo Desiderio Africa’s biggest trade vision, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), is gathering momentum – but not because policymakers willed it so. It...
By Danilo Desiderio As the world’s economic center of gravity tilts decisively from West to East, Africa finds itself at a defining historical juncture. The rise...
By Dishant Shah There’s a quiet power in symbolism – especially when it arrives not with fanfare, but in the form of a refrigerated truck loaded...
By Godfred Zina For decades, Africa has been the world’s largest recipient of foreign aid. Yet despite pouring over US$50 billion annually into the continent, the...
By Dishant Shah There is a quiet revolution unfolding across Africa – one paved not just with asphalt, but with ambition. At its heart are industrial...
By Des H Rikhotso After seven years of strategic preparation, Ethiopia is officially set to begin trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) marking...
By Danilo Desiderio In many African economies, a familiar proverb echoes through bustling markets and border towns: “When the lion does not hunt, the hyena will...
By JP Følsgaard Bak Last week, I attended what felt like the funeral of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) – not in a chapel,...
By Des H Rikhotso For too long, many African entrepreneurs have viewed their domestic markets as the ceiling – not the launchpad – for growth. While...
By Sheena Raikundalia Every year, Africa hemorrhages an estimated US$5 billion – not to corruption, not to mismanagement, but simply to the cost of moving money...
By Danilo Desiderio Africa stands at a pivotal moment in its quest for continental unity. The African Union’s newly released Africa Integration Report 2025, published alongside...
By Danilo Desiderio As global trade grows increasingly fragmented, Africa stands at a crossroads. According to UNCTAD, average tariffs imposed by major economies – including the...
By Danilo Desiderio A provocative question recently posed by a Semafor Africa article – “Does Africa really exist?” – offers a striking entry point into the...
By Danilo Desiderio The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has become the most celebrated economic initiative on the continent. Leaders, policymakers, economists, and business associations...
By Ziad Hamoui Last month, in a quiet but consequential gathering in Abuja, Nigeria, ministers from Nigeria, Benin, and Cameroon didn’t just sign another memorandum of...
By Ziad Hamoui In Accra last week, the ECOWAS Commission launched the US$10 million West Africa Livestock Marketing Support Programme (PACBAO-2) – a bold, long-term initiative...
By Danilo Desiderio When the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) officially launched in 2019, it was hailed as the most ambitious economic project on the...
By Danilo Desiderio The world’s trade winds are shifting – literally and figuratively. With rising geopolitical tensions, tariff wars, and supply chain reconfigurations between major Northern...
By Farhia Noor I am African. And I say this with unshakable conviction: the lion is not stirring. The lion is not awakening. The lion has...
By Ziad Hamoui When history looks back on the defining infrastructure projects of 21st-century Africa, the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor will stand out – not as just another...
By Godfred Zina In an era when military regimes across the Sahel are tightening borders, isolating themselves, and doubling down on suspicion of external influence, Burkina...
By Danilo Desiderio In a continent where roads often end in red tape and distances stretch beyond infrastructure, the skies may hold the key to Africa’s...
By Dishant Shah As the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) moves from vision to reality, a pivotal question echoes across boardrooms, policy think tanks, and...
By Danilo Desiderio “To draw legs on a snake” – a Chinese proverb warning against unnecessary embellishment – is more than a cautionary tale about overdesign....
By Ziad Hamoui In a landmark move for regional integration, the African Union Commission (AUC), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, and the...
By Danilo Desiderio For decades, Africa has been described in the same breath: a “continent of potential.” It’s a phrase often delivered with optimism – but...
By Ziad Hamoui In a landmark move for regional integration, Ghana and Burkina Faso signed a pivotal railway cooperation agreement last Thursday in Accra, setting the...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly Africa’s trade volume is surging – its exports to global markets reached record highs in 2024. Yet beneath the headline numbers lies...
By Dishant Shah In an era defined by technological disruption, climate urgency, and shifting global power dynamics, one continent quietly holds the keys to the future...
By Danilo Desiderio As protectionism rises in parts of the developed world, African nations are at a pivotal crossroads in their economic evolution. A recent commentary...
By Ziad Hamoui In a bold move that could reshape the economic landscape of West Africa, President John Dramani Mahama’s recent address to investors in Singapore...
By Curtis Akunfu In an era dominated by risk-averse capital and volatile markets, investors are searching for stability, returns, and long-term resilience. Surprisingly, the answer may...
By Davida Ademuyiwa Africa is often called the continent of the future. But futures aren’t built on slogans – they are built on steel, silicon, and...
By Danilo Desiderio In the decades since the 1994 genocide, Rwanda has emerged as one of Africa’s most compelling development success stories. From the ashes of...
By Lailla Mutajogera When I speak with investors about Africa, I hear the same six questions – again and again. They reflect a deep curiosity, but...
By Danilo Desiderio Trade finance is often described as the “silent engine” of Africa’s economic growth, yet its full potential remains largely untapped. Strengthening access to...
By Dishant Shah Africa feeds the world – and yet, it struggles to feed itself efficiently. Consider this: the average journey of food across the African...
By Davida Ademuyiwa When the future of Africa is discussed in global boardrooms, policy forums, or development summits, the narrative often turns to external partnerships: Europe’s...
By Danilo Desiderio In a continent brimming with potential, infrastructure promises progress. Yet too often, grand projects fail to deliver on their lofty ambitions – becoming...
By Davida Ademuyiwa In the shifting sands of global geopolitics, Africa finds itself at a pivotal crossroads. As major powers intensify their competition for influence on...
By Ziad Hamoui In the first quarter of 2025, a quiet but transformative shift reshaped Africa’s economic landscape: trade between the East African Community (EAC) and...
By Ziad Hamoui In the first six months of 2025, Nigeria’s Lekki Deep Sea Port – operated by Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) Enterprise Limited –...
By Davida Ademuyiwa In little more than half a century, Dubai transformed from a quiet desert emirate into one of the world’s most dynamic global hubs...
By Ziad Hamoui As the September 30, 2025, expiration date of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) approaches, Africa stands at a pivotal economic crossroads...
By Danilo Desiderio In 1748, the French philosopher Montesquieu made a prescient observation in The Spirit of Laws: “Peace is the natural effect of trade.” More...
By Ziad Hamoui In a transformative step for regional economic integration, Nigeria and Benin have formalized a landmark Framework for Enhanced Economic Cooperation – a strategic...
By Davida Ademuyiwa For decades, foreign aid has been framed as a lifeline – a well-intentioned effort to uplift nations, stabilize economies, and alleviate suffering across...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson In a move that could redefine the global diamond trade, Botswana is asserting its right to majority ownership of De Beers, the world’s...
By Des H Rikhotso Across Africa, the rhythm of life pulses through the soil. From the sun-drenched fields of Ethiopia to the fertile plains of Nigeria...
By Gregory Simpkins US President Donald Trump appears to be more determined than ever to pursue his international tariff policies, even through the several reversals of...
By Davida Ademuyiwa Africa is no longer just a continent of potential – it’s a continent of strategy, scale, and serious investment. Across the region, special...
By Farhia Noor The rise and fall of Okra, once one of Nigeria’s most promising fintech startups, is more than just another Silicon Valley-style cautionary tale....
By Danilo Desiderio As the East African Community (EAC) assumes the rotating chairmanship of the Tripartite Task Force, it has sounded a clarion call for a...
By Danilo Desiderio The 11th edition of the Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (ARIA XI) report – jointly published by the United Nations Economic Commission for...
By Danilo Desiderio Africa’s vast landscapes and growing economies demand robust, efficient transport networks – yet one of the most promising tools in this logistical arsenal...
