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The Most Underwritable Risk In African Commodity Finance, And Fewer Than 5 Banks Will Touch It.
A licensed gold buyer in Ghana has been waiting up to 3 weeks to be paid. Some have…
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3 Million Of Africa’s Cheapest Phones Did Not Sell, The Average Price Rose 41 Dollars And The Reason Is An AI Data Center.
The $100 smartphone is disappearing from Africa, and nothing about the reason is African. In Lagos, Nigeria, a…
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Africa Won The Argument About Who Owns The Mines. It Never Built The Company That Runs One.
On 4 September a tender closes in the West Wollega zone of Ethiopia’s Oromia region. A gold project…
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Africa Processes 2% Of Its Own Cotton. The Plan To Fix That Buys Its Machines From Switzerland.
Africa grows less than 5% of the world’s cotton. It supplies about 15% of the raw cotton the…
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Africa Owns The Audience And Rents The Screen. Mr Eazi Wants To Buy It Back.
In February 2026, DStv subscribers turned on SuperSport for the Winter Olympics and found nothing there. For the…
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African Cybercrime Doubled To $484 Million. The Continent Has 20,000 People To Stop It.
On 18 August 2025, a ransomware crew called Qilin claimed it had broken into Uganda Electricity Transmission Company…
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They Told You Nigeria’s Banks Moved Their Money Into Farming. The Table Says They Moved It Into Land.
“Banks shift credit to agriculture.” That headline ran on 3 Nigerian outlets last weekend, all of them reading…
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Kenya’s Market Added 1 Trillion Shillings, 5 Companies Took 517 Billion Of It And 9 Others Lost 2.25 Billion.
On the Nairobi Securities Exchange there is a fund that holds gold. It has a designated market maker,…
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A $6,000 Safari Booking, A $480 Fee And The Company That Cut It To $96.
A guest in Munich books 4 nights at a lodge outside Arusha, Tanzania, and pays $6,000 on a…
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African Talent, Business Week Afrika 2026, Entrepreneurship, Innovation in African Business, Women in Afrika54 African Women Were Named Yesterday. Female Founders Took 2.8% Of The Continent’s Capital This Year.
On 12 August 2026, a South African platform named 54 winners: women building Africa’s next decade. 9 of…
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Africa Is Buying Power Faster Than It Can Use It
In Gisagara, southern Rwanda, there is a power station that can burn 2,191 tonnes of peat a day.…
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Africa’s Biggest Trade Barrier Just Fell. Are You Walking Through It?
On 1 May 2026, 24 tonnes of South African apples cleared Shenzhen Bay Port and paid nothing. They…