Long reads on African history, governance, economics, culture, and what comes next.
The EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542, which entered force in August 2023 with due-diligence reporting requirements phasing in from 2025–2027, requires downstream battery manufacturers selling into the EU market …
In 1324 the *mansa* of Mali — Musa I — left Niani for Mecca with what the Egyptian chroniclers described as 60,000 people, 12,000 slaves, and so much …
Zimbabwe holds the second-largest platinum group metals (PGM) reserve globally after South Africa, concentrated in the Great Dyke geological formation running north-south through the central Mashonaland West and …
Kenya's dairy sector is one of the more revealing case studies in African agribusiness consolidation. The Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC), founded in 1925 as a settler-farmer cooperative, was …
African sovereign Eurobond issuance recovered substantially in 2024 after the 2022–2023 drought, with Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Kenya, and Senegal returning to international capital markets. The yield curve that …
The African Continental Free Trade Area entered force on 1 January 2021. The launch narrative — a single market of 1.3 billion people, $3.4 trillion in combined GDP, …
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) operates the import-tariff regime that interacts with the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) state-monopoly framework to determine the effective price of maize at Zimbabwean …
In August 2019 the Buhari administration closed Nigeria's land borders with Benin, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad. The closures lasted, formally, until December 2020 — though the easing was …