The number arrived quietly, but it carried weight. Kenya’s economy grew at 5.1 percent in the second quarter of 2025, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) confirmed, brushing aside the twin headwinds of geopolitical price volatility linked to the…
Ghana’s automotive sector presents a precise, measurable test of whether the country can convert trade facilitation into genuine industrial capacity, and the answer hinges on a governance question that extends well beyond the factory floor: does Ghana’s current policy architecture…
A Kenyan institutional investor can now buy into Nigeria’s most consequential industrial asset of the decade. Whether the regulatory plumbing that makes this possible can scale into a durable regional capital market is the harder question. The Transaction and Its…
A seat at the table, for too long, was the finish line. Esther Mwaniki, Founder and CEO of Lapid Leaders Africa, is making the case that it should be the starting point. Speaking ahead of the Women of Purpose Summit…
When the World Bank’s October 2026 Africa Economic Update ranked the Ghana cedi as the worst-performing currency among all African currencies it monitors during the second quarter of 2026, the finding was not merely a statistical footnote. It was a…
Ghana’s Public Accounts Committee convened on 6 October 2025 confronting a figure that demands more than routine parliamentary scrutiny: GH¢5.2 billion in financial irregularities recorded across Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, of which GH¢4.8 billion traces directly to tax infractions. The…
When Telecel Ghana’s External Affairs Director, Komla Buami, took the panel stage at the Executive Women’s Network’s tenth anniversary conference in Accra, the moment crystallised a question that sits at the heart of corporate governance across West Africa: does private…
A Forum, a Mandate, and an Unresolved Question When Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi addressed delegates ahead of the inaugural El Alamein Africa Business Forum and the eighth African Union Mid-Year Coordination Meeting in Egypt, he framed African unity…
When Turaco and VisionFund International formalised their global partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding earlier this year, the announcement carried weight beyond a standard commercial agreement. At its core, the deal addresses one of the most persistent structural gaps in…
Kenya’s private sector is not struggling despite its governance frameworks. It is struggling because of them. A new World Bank Private Sector Diagnostic report lays out, with unusual directness, how compounding tax burdens, systemic bribery, and regulatory dysfunction are suppressing…
