Governance
Ghana’s State Ownership Policy already provides for entity-specific key performance indicators covering areas such as financial performance, efficiency, productivity, service delivery and public-policy objectives. It also provides for remuneration to be linked to agreed KPIs.
creative Industry
The commercial value of a story does not necessarily end when the production is released. A successful film or series can generate value through broadcasting and streaming rights, licensing, merchandising, international distribution and adaptations.
Technology
From a 2018 school visit to four new kits deployed across seven African countries, STEMAIDE Africa turned an under-resourced training program into an offline-first STEM pipeline, proving Africa's talent gap closes with homegrown tools built for its own African realities.
Nature and Sustainability
Illegal, small-scale gold mining in Africa is not sustained by desperate individuals. Estimates place its foreign-exchange contribution at roughly $11B, ahead of the $9B generated by large-scale, licensed miners, with an estimated 70%-80% of artisanal miners operating outside licensing frameworks.
Agriculture
Cocoa's troubles in Africa cannot be separated from the economic architecture within which it was introduced. The crop arrived in West Africa as part of a colonial export system designed to move raw commodities out of Africa and into European processing plants, refineries and factories.
African Progress
The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States reaffirmed the priority of advancing the ECO currency project. ECOWAS has retained 2027 as the target contained in its existing roadmap, although the eventual launch is expected to depend on countries meeting the required conditions.
Finance and Investment
Dangote's ₦2.15 trillion refinery IPO is either proof African capital can finance African industry, or a $50 billion bet built on a tenth of the company. ADC unpacks what naira exposure, thin margins and diaspora access reveal about who actually builds Africa's next industrial era.
At the 81st UN General Assembly, African leaders made an argument repeated at every session for years. The continent sits in the Security Council's agenda yet it has no permanent place at its table.
The release of The DPI 50, a global initiative published by Apolitical in partnership with the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on GovTech and Digital Public Infrastructure. Designed to spotlight fifty public-sector leaders delivering measurable, citizen-centered digital systems at scale.
Africa pays for how it is seen. A rating decides what a road, a clinic or a market stall costs to build. Mauritius has launched an agency to look closer. Will anyone in Africa's last mile feel the difference?
Despite giving so much to the world, African nations have spent years relying on external financial aid, loans, and foreign development grants simply to fund domestic budgets. Over the decades, this relationship has evolved from post-colonial aid packages into a complex web of global dependency.
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Digital Assets
Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya each passed landmark digital asset legislation within about thirteen months of one another. With the Digital Assets Summit Africa returning to Accra, the coming months will test whether implementation can keep pace with adoption that's already outrun Law three times over.
African Progress
Africa has a protocol for free movement. It has had one since 2018. What it does not yet have is a border that behaves as if that protocol exists. The distance between signature and practice is where continental ambition goes to wait.
health
Africa's rural infrastructures sit unstaffed while qualified graduates stay unemployed in the cities, choosing to wait rather than take posts that offer no housing, no power, and no path forward. The real gap isn't jobs or workers, it's the infrastructure that would make rural postings worth taking.
Democracy
A phone, an unverified claim, and an audience running into the millions is now, on its own, enough to get someone arrested anywhere on the continent. The continent's content creator economy has grown from a novelty into an information infrastructure in under a decade, and with that growth
culture
Across Africa, a banknote has never been just currency, it is pride placed on a graduate's chest, a community woven into a wedding floor, a recognition pressed into a performer's palm. Now governments across African States want it back intact. The negotiation between law and love affair has begun.