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The Half Empty Factory: Why Africa’s Biggest Health Gap Is a Business Case
Kenya’s health system needs 1,096 medicine formulations to run. Its factories make 220 of them. The other 876…
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Spiro Isn’t Selling Motorcycles. It’s Selling the Energy Network Underneath Them.
What they tell you about electric vehicles: They are a rich-world story. A Tesla in a California driveway,…
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African Business Trends, Business Week Afrika 2026, Cryptocurrency, Foreign Exchange in Africa, Innovation in African BusinessThe Dollar Takes Two Cuts on Every African Payment. This Week, Africa Moved to Stop Paying It.
You run a small importer in Lagos. Your supplier sits in Accra. She invoices you in Cedis. You…
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Africa Grows 70% of the World’s Cocoa and Earns a Sliver. This Week, Three Industries Decided to Stop
Africa grows roughly 70% of the world’s cocoa. It earns under 10% of the $120 billion chocolate market…
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Kes 20 a Day: How Africa Is Dragging the Phone Down to Meet the Wallet
For years the story of Africa’s digital economy had one stubborn floor under it: The phone itself. You…
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Oga Obinna Didn’t Throw a Boxing Match. He Built a Media Company That Happens to Box.
On 20 June 2026, a comedian filled the Sarit Expo Centre in Westlands for a boxing card almost…
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Kenya’s Biggest Export Is Its People: The Diaspora Capital Nobody Is Banking
Kenya’s biggest export earner is not tea, coffee or cut flowers. It is Kenyans. Between June 2024 and…
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The Servers Come Home: How Nigeria and Kenya Just Opened a Sovereign-Tech Market
For a decade the rule was simple: An African fintech generated its data here and stored it somewhere…
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African Business Trends, African Investment, Business Week Afrika 2026, Cryptocurrency, Foreign Exchange in Africa$3.2 Billion and a Stablecoin Strategy: Why Ripple Paid to Sit Inside Africa’s Money Rails
A week ago the story was that stablecoins had stopped being a threat and become infrastructure. This week…
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The Money Returned to Africa, Just Not for Everyone: Reading the 2026 Funding Rebound Honestly
Eighteen months ago, the money disappeared. In the first half of 2024, African startups raised just $780 million,…
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Africa’s Best Export Isn’t a Product Anymore: Stop Giving Away the Lessons Africa Paid to Learn
For most of a century, the flow of business knowledge ran in one direction. Models, management theory, and…
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African Business Trends, Innovation in African Business, Real Estate in Africa, Technology & African BusinessHomes in Days, Not Years: Ethiopia Bets the Housing Crisis Is a Manufacturing Problem
Ethiopia has decided to stop building houses and start printing them. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced that…