Guides, reports, and expert insights for African business
Case StudyChari was founded in early 2020 by Ismael Belkhayat and Sophia Alj, a husband-and-wife team with backgrounds at BCG and ...
Morocco
Market ReportIndependent power producers have become the primary vehicle for utility-scale generation expansion across Africa, with A...
Market ReportAfrican trade corridors are the physical infrastructure axes that connect ports to inland markets and that carry the maj...
Market ReportEducation financing is one of the most persistent constraints on African learning access, and several operators have exp...
Nigeria
Market ReportAfrica received approximately USD 100 billion in remittances in 2024, roughly double overseas development assistance to ...
NigeriaHow-to GuideMobile money only works if agents can convert cash to digital balance reliably. Building an agent network is a mix of re...
KenyaExpert InsightNigeria went live with formal open banking on 1 August 2025, becoming the first African country to do so. The fanfare wa...
Nigeria
Market ReportApproximately 80 percent of economic losses from African natural disasters in 2022 went uninsured, up from 58 percent in...
Kenya
Market ReportSatellite imagery, remote sensing, and machine learning were once research novelties in African agriculture. They are in...
Market ReportAfrican populations are dramatically under-represented in global genomic databases, with more than 80 percent of partici...
Case StudyOmniRetail was founded in 2019 by Deepankar Rustagi. By 2023 it was EBITDA positive. By 2024 it was net profitable. By e...
NigeriaMarket ReportSub-Saharan Africa processed USD 1.4 trillion through mobile money in 2025, representing 66 percent of global transactio...
Ghana