Analysis
Beyond the headlines. Understanding what Africa’s business stories mean for the people building its future. We examine the stories, decisions, trends and shifts shaping entrepreneurship and business across the continent. We explore why it matters, what it reveals about the African enterprise environment, and what entrepreneurs, business leaders and institutions can learn from it.
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AFRICA AT UNGA81: ENTREPRENEURSHIP – THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN AFRICA’S POTENTIAL AND ITS PROSPERITY
As Africa’s leaders, investors and institutions gather in New York, conversations around capital, critical minerals, artificial intelligence, trade and infrastructure are raising a...
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Ethiopia Built the Power. Now Comes the Harder Question: Who Should Get It?
As Ethiopia cuts electricity to Bitcoin miners, Africa faces a bigger question about how scarce resources should be allocated to build productive economies....
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From Dangote’s Refinery to an African Institution
Africa’s largest IPO marks a new chapter in the journey from founder-built enterprise to enduring institution. On 14 September 2026, one of the...
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Africa Cannot Keep Financing the Same Emergency Twice.
Every economic shock should leave Africa with more productive capability than it found. Africa is once again confronting an economic shock whose origins...
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AfCFTA Has Opened the Door. But How Many African Enterprises Are Ready to Walk Through It?
For much of its young life, the African Continental Free Trade Area has been discussed through the language of governments and trade policy....
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Africa’s EV Boom Is Growing. But Are We Building an Industry, or Just a Market?
Africa’s electric-mobility transition is beginning to accelerate. New trade data reported this week show that African imports of electric motorcycles and three-wheelers from...
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Africa Doesn’t Just Have a Funding Gap. It Also Has an Enterprise-Graduation Gap.
The African startup funding landscape appeared to deliver some very good news in August. Startups across the continent raised approximately $435 million in...
