Africa must stop treating its most ambitious development blueprint as ceremonial scripture - and start deploying it as a binding contract with the world.
By Michele Moscaritoli Africa’s investment landscape tells a story of striking contradictions. Extractive industries – mining, oil, gas, and the minerals powering the global energy transition...
A quiet revolution in cooling infrastructure is underway in the heart of Africa - and the world should be paying attention.
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...
By John Kourkoutas Look at a map of urban agglomerations below – cities with populations exceeding one million – and a stark pattern emerges. The United...
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...
By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya Africa is routinely described as one of the world’s most compelling investment frontiers. At gatherings from the Africa CEO Forum to...
Africa's industrial ambitions will remain illusory until energy is treated not as infrastructure, but as the foundation of sovereign economic strategy.
By Ajay Wasserman The debt markets are sending a clear message – and this time, African economies are listening carefully. The bond market is speaking. For...
By Des H Rikhotso A bold infrastructure push promises to compress travel times, unlock regional trade, and redefine what connectivity means for a continent long underserved...
By Victory Azimih The first three parts of this series established a doctrine – spare in language but weighty in implication. Infrastructure builds capacity. Industry builds...
By Ziad Hamoui Building roads is the easy part. The real obstacle to regional trade lies in the invisible infrastructure that no construction crew can fix....
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 Victory Azimih In Part 1, we established that independence is fundamentally a systems problem – that Africa’s future hinges on the capacity to design, finance,...
By Gregory September Regional cooperation just got real. Landlocked Mali can now reach the Atlantic. For landlocked nations, geography is often destiny. Mali, nestled deep in...
By Michele Moscaritoli Africa’s largest economy offers unmatched opportunity – but investors are waiting for the fog to clear. Nigeria should dominate every emerging-market investment ranking....
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 Fidel Amakye Owusu Strategic equity demands and infrastructure investments signal a new era of African economic sovereignty. The landscape of African resource control is undergoing...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Kelly Mua Kingsly The arithmetic is brutal: a liter of gasoline in many African cities costs roughly what a gallon – nearly four liters –...
By Princess C. Mutisya Not every day does a landlocked, fragile state stride into a desert capital and demand not just investment – but a new...
By Davida Ademuyiwa In an era when emerging economies often wait for foreign investors to signal confidence before committing public funds, Ethiopia chose a different path:...
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 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 Ajay Wasserman In the first half of 2025, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) shattered records – signing over US$124 billion in new investments across...
By Farhia Noor As an African deeply invested in our continent’s future, I recently read the Africa Finance Corporation’s (AFC) 2025 report: “The State of Africa’s...
In December, the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) announced the appointment of Barbadian Daniel Best as the institution’s seventh president. This appointment...
Reuters | Africa’s economic growth is set to accelerate to 3.7 percent this year and 4.3 percent next from 3.1 percent in 2023, African Development Bank...
(Reuters) – The African Development Bank said on Thursday the fund it intends to create to finance infrastructure investment on the continent could be as big...
