Finance and Investment
A Cameroon-hosted finance and investment forum in Yaoundé is placing renewed emphasis on private capital as a central driver of economic transformation in Central Africa, reflecting a broader regional shift toward investment-led development strategies.
Finance and Investment
Recent discussions around the refinery have centred on the possibility of expanding its investor base through capital markets participation. While no formal cross-listing across African stock exchanges has been confirmed.
Finance and Investment
Less than 30% of SMEs across the continent maintain digital financial records, not because the information does not exist, but because it remains scattered, unstructured, and largely invisible to machines.
Technology
At recent gatherings where Africa's financial technology future has been debated, including the Africa Fintech Summit held in Washington D.C., one theme cut through the noise with unusual clarity: the continent is no longer building fintech as a sector. It is building fintech as infrastructure.
African Progress
What kind of Africa was being built before the ships came? And what does it actually mean for Africa to develop? They sit underneath the reparations debate. You cannot make the case for repair without understanding what was lost, and what building truly means.
Governance
Every year, the world pours more than $2 trillion into weapons, armies, and military equipment, while children go unschooled, hospitals lack equipment, and the world burns. If we keep choosing weapons over schools, then what we pass on is a world more unequal, and unstable than the one we received.
Finance and Investment
South Africa is actively exploring alternative energy suppliers as persistent tensions in the Middle East push global oil prices higher and create uncertainty over supply routes. In parallel, Rwanda is advancing its nuclear energy ambitions as a long-term solution to domestic energy needs.