By Danilo Desiderio A useful lens for understanding why some regions industrialized faster than others is to look past what they produced and examine instead how...
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 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...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Balbir Singh At global forums – from Davos to Addis Ababa – policymakers and development advisors repeat a familiar mantra: Africa must industrialize and boost...
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 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 Max Walter Industrial policy is seeing a revival in Africa and beyond. In fact, governments across the continent are now explicitly using a variety of...
