Walk through Kigali’s business district or Lagos’s tech corridor and you notice something that doesn’t quite match the old headlines about the continent. Cranes are up. Fibre cables are going into the ground. Young founders are pitching payment platforms to investors who, a few years ago, barely knew where to find these markets on a […]
A decade ago, conversations about investing in Africa rarely moved beyond oil fields, mining concessions, and commodity cycles. That framing was always incomplete, and today it’s simply outdated. Africa’s economic development has entered a new phase, one defined less by what sits beneath the ground and more by what is being built above it: cities, […]
Sixty kilometers south of Nairobi, a city is being built from the ground up: fiber optic cables laid before the roads, data centers before the schools. That is not a metaphor. That is Konza Technopolis. It already has $1.3 billion invested in it, over 50 startups and tech firms operating within its boundaries, and a […]
Introduction Africa’s investment story is no longer driven by demographics alone. Regulatory reform is increasingly reshaping the continent’s risk-reward profile. What is quietly reshaping the continent’s risk-reward profile is regulatory change. Across multiple markets, governments are simplifying approvals, digitizing public services, and aligning trade rules. For investors, that shift matters more than headline growth rates. […]
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