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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Kelly Mua Kingsly When it comes to global commodities, few markets rival the sheer economic heft of crude oil. In 2022 alone, the global oil...
By John Dale A few years ago, if someone had told me I would soon sign a billion-naira palm oil export contract with a business partner...
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 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 A provocative question recently posed by a Semafor Africa article – “Does Africa really exist?” – offers a striking entry point into the...
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 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 John Kourkoutas Africa is no longer a frontier market – it’s a battleground for global economic influence. And while European and American businesses continue to...
By Ryan Elcock Earlier this week, when I attended the Nigeria–Canada Trade and Investment Summit and Awards (NICATISA) 2025, my intention was simple: sit in the...
By Michael Sudarkasa Recently, I had the privilege of speaking at the Cross Border Trade Strategic Conversations Summit, hosted at the Regenesys Education Campus in Sandton,...
By John Kourkoutas If you’re not yet looking at Zambia, you’re overlooking one of Africa’s most strategic – and still underappreciated – markets for exporters and...
By John Kourkoutas Railways in Africa are more than tracks and locomotives – they are arteries of opportunity. Yet, decades of underinvestment have left the continent’s...
By Danilo Desiderio A groundbreaking study from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, titled “Diversifying European Supply Chains: Can Africa Play a Role?“, argues that...
By John Kourkoutas The visual above showcases the intricate web of global connectivity – roads, railroads, airports, seaports, and cities – that serves as the backbone...
By Dishant Shah Africa boasts over 170 commercial ports spread across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Despite this...
By Danilo Desiderio The Greek philosopher Socrates once stated, “there is no favorable wind for the sailor who doesn’t know where to go.” Yet, this notion...
Nigerian serial entrepreneur and philanthropist, Aliko Dangote, has proposed that African states introduce free movement of persons, goods, services and capital across the continent, based on...
“I know not everybody cannot afford to provide collateral to go to the bank, because when I first started as a business woman, I could not...
