AFRICA

The United Nations Is Proposing the Biggest Change to Economic Measurement Since World War II. Africa's Most Valuable Assets Are Precisely the Ones GDP Has Always Ignored.

The United Nations has proposed replacing GDP as the primary development indicator with a 31-indicat...

May 31 18 min

AFRICA

The Economics of African Borders: How Delays, Fees and Informality Are Giving Way to a New Era of Regional Trade

Africa’s borders were inherited as lines of separation. The next generation of integration is turn...

May 22 11 min

AFRICA

Aliko Dangote Has Named the Ten Most Promising African Countries for Investment. Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, and Ethiopia Made the List.

In a podcast conversation with Nicolai Tangen of Norges Bank Investment Management, Aliko Dangote na...

May 17 13 min

AFRICA

America Warns Africa About China While Its Billionaires Fly to Beijing. Africa Should Study That Contradiction, Not the Rhetoric.

On 13 May 2026, Donald Trump arrived in Beijing for a state visit accompanied by more than a dozen o...

May 14 17 min

AFRICA

What Do Big Economies See in Africa That Africa Itself Cannot Fathom?

Africa has become the world’s most courted underpriced asset. The United States sees critical mine...

May 14 11 min

AFRICA

Africa Receives Billions in Foreign Aid and Foreign Investment Every Year. It Loses More Than That to Capital Flight. The Continent Is Not Underfunded. It Is Being Drained.

Africa loses an estimated USD 88.6 billion annually to illicit financial flows including trade misin...

Jun 13 18 min

AFRICA

Ethiopia's USD 2.8 Billion Koysha Dam Will Add 2,200MW to the Grid. With GERD and Gibe III, Ethiopia Is Becoming Africa's Largest Electricity Exporter.

Ethiopia's USD 2.8 billion Koysha Hydroelectric Project on the Omo River will generate 2,200 megawat...

Jun 7 10 min

AFRICA

Africa Does Not Have a Shortage of Plans. It Has a Shortage of Power That Can Execute Them. The Continent's Economic Renaissance Will Require Authority, Merit, and Discipline Simultaneously.

Africa has development plans, democratic processes, budgets, and cabinets but still produces incompl...

May 31 19 min

AFRICA

Dangote Has Sealed a USD 4.2 Billion, 25-Year Gas Deal in Ethiopia. It Is the Most Consequential Industrial Investment in the Horn of Africa and It Changes the Economics of East African Agriculture.

Dangote Industries finalised a USD 4.2 billion, 25-year pact with China's GCL Group in March 2026 to...

May 31 13 min

AFRICA

Africa Is Entering the Age of Automation With the World's Youngest Population and One of Its Weakest Formal Employment Bases. That Sequencing Problem Is Barely Being Discussed.

Historically, industrialisation followed a consistent sequence: developing economies absorbed large ...

May 26 13 min

AFRICA

China Has Energy Loan Relationships With 35 African Governments. Aliko Dangote Told You Why.

Boston University's Global Development Policy Center's Chinese Loans to Africa database documents 35...

May 25 13 min

AFRICA

Burkina Faso's Gold Nationalism Is Part of a Larger African Shift. The Continent Is Rewriting Who Controls Its Resources.

Burkina Faso's military government under President Ibrahim Traoré is restructuring the ownership ar...

May 25 13 min