Long reads on African history, governance, economics, culture, and what comes next.
Flutterwave's legal-and-corporate structure is more complex than the press framing of the company as a 'Nigerian fintech' suggests. The Mauritius-domiciled Flutterwave Inc. is the parent holding entity; the …
The Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) opened in June 2017 — the largest single infrastructure investment in Kenya's post-independence history at USD 3.2 billion, financed approximately 90% by …
African startup venture funding peaked in 2022 at roughly USD 4.8 billion in disclosed deals (Big Four total: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, South Africa), per Briter Bridges and the …
Across West Africa they are called *susu* (in Akan and adopted into Caribbean English). In East Africa they are *chama* (Swahili). In Cameroon they are *tontine*. In Egypt …
Cocoa was supposed to be the politically stable commodity. Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire produce roughly 60% of the world supply, the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has run a …
Gum arabic is the polysaccharide you have eaten today without knowing it. It stabilizes the Coca-Cola formula, holds the sugar coating on M&Ms, and is the emulsifier in …
Andela was founded in Lagos in 2014 by Jeremy Johnson, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, and co-founders as a developer-training-and-placement company aimed at the global remote-engineering market. The original model — …
Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, crashed near Bishoftu on 10 March 2019 killing all 157 people on board, six minutes after takeoff from Addis …
Diaspora remittances to sub-Saharan Africa reached approximately USD 54 billion in 2024 according to World Bank Migration and Development Brief data, exceeding both foreign direct investment and official …
The CFA franc — the common currency of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU, eight states) and the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC, six …
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), headquartered in Cairo and founded in 1993 under AfDB and OAU sponsorship, is the African institution that most consistently delivers operational outcomes against …
In November 2018, John Magufuli's government deployed the Tanzanian People's Defence Force to confiscate roughly 220,000 tonnes of unsold cashew nuts from buyers who had refused to purchase …