Guides, reports, and expert insights for African business
Expert InsightLess than 0.5 percent of Nigerians had used the eNaira by late 2023. By 2025, approximately 13 million wallets had been ...
Ghana
Expert InsightKuda is now a nationally licensed Nigerian bank. FairMoney is a licensed microfinance bank with current accounts, saving...
NigeriaExpert InsightNigeria became the first African country to go live with formal open banking on 1 August 2025. The Central Bank of Niger...
Nigeria
Market ReportApproximately 900 million Africans lack access to clean cooking fuels, relying on wood, charcoal, kerosene, or other tra...
Expert InsightPiggyVest has over 7 million users. Cowrywise passed 800,000. Bamboo and Risevest have built credible retail US stock ac...
Nigeria
How-to GuideB2B supply chain finance is one of the most promising African fintech categories because it addresses a genuine credit g...
Nigeria
Market ReportAfrican edtech is undergoing a structural pivot away from K-12 consumer models toward adult learning, driven by the spec...
Case StudyJulaya was founded to solve a specific problem in Cote d'Ivoire: why African businesses could not process B2B payments d...
Cote d'Ivoire
Market ReportAfrican warehousing infrastructure is dominated by informal storage facilities with limited Grade A capacity for modern ...
Market ReportOnly a small fraction of African workers participate in any formal retirement savings system. Nigeria's Contributory Pen...
NigeriaExpert InsightMobile money in Africa runs on a foundation of approximately 300,000 M-Pesa agents, several hundred thousand more across...
Kenya
Market ReportThe COVID-19 pandemic exposed African dependence on imported vaccines and triggered a wave of commitments to build conti...
South Africa