Africa’s best-known e-commerce company has spent a decade proving that selling online on the continent is hard. Its management says profitability is close. It has said that before. Jumia listed in New York in 2019 as “the Amazon of Africa”, a label its founders never chose and its results never justified. Under the current leadership...

The Zimbabwean-born founder of Econet and Cassava Technologies has announced plans to build artificial intelligence computing capacity on African soil. The question is whether the continent can afford to run it. Strive Masiyiwa built a telecoms and fibre group across Africa after a long legal fight to obtain a licence in Zimbabwe. His current vehicle,...

The Central Bank of Nigeria gave its banks two years to raise capital, with a deadline in March 2026. The consequences reach far beyond Lagos — including into Central Africa, where Nigerian banks are among the largest foreign players. In 2024, the Central Bank of Nigeria ordered a sharp increase in minimum capital, with the...

Every Central African family abroad knows a version of the story: money sent for a plot, a house half built, a title that turns out to belong to someone else. Property is the diaspora’s favourite investment and its most litigated one. For most of the diaspora, the first investment at home is land. It is...