By Franco Bonghan When Burkina Faso banned fresh tomato exports to feed its own processing plants, it did more than protect a crop. It quietly repudiated...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Davida Ademuyiwa History offers a clear and unambiguous lesson: no nation has ever achieved sustained prosperity without first undergoing an industrial transformation. From 18th-century Britain...
By Ajay Wasserman Africa is home to the world’s youngest population – a dynamic, fast-growing demographic that represents both a historic opportunity and a pressing challenge....
By Ajay Wasserman In a remarkable display of economic momentum, the Lusaka Securities Exchange (LuSE) has emerged as the world’s best-performing stock market for August, outpacing...
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 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 Dishant Shah Across Africa, cities are far more than clusters of people and buildings – they are dynamic engines of transformation, turning raw potential into...
By Dishant Shah Ninety years ago, the world was starkly divided. Wealth and weapons were concentrated in the hands of a few Western powers, while much...
By Mary Alorh Africa’s latest push to harness its abundant natural resources for economic transformation may sound familiar – but this time, the stakes are higher,...
By Danilo Desiderio It’s a common narrative in global development discourse: Africa’s vast natural resources are seen as the continent’s golden ticket to economic ascension. After...
By Danilo Desiderio On December 18 2023, the Financial Times published an article that had an international resonance, which argued that Africa cannot grow without increasing...
By Almaz Negash In challenging times, particularly for those in Africa whose livelihoods depend on financial support, I often ask myself: What role can I, as...
By Lloyd G. Adu Amoah For the first time in seven years, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will end the year without Ghana’s presidency weighing on his...
