CEO, union president, executive member of the International Federation of Journalists — Marion Obam Mahel embodies a new generation of African women leaders who refuse glass ceilings and rewrite the rules. Portrait of an exceptional woman, who rose from Douala to conquer the world, without ever losing her roots. She enters the conversation with the...

The Tanzania Investment Summit 2026 is shaping up to be the defining moment for strategic financing in East Africa From 3 to 5 June 2026 in Arusha, Tanzania will welcome a new generation of investors. Organised by the Tanzania Investment Growth Facility (TIGF), in partnership with ESRF and UNDP, this summit aims to establish the...

Analysis — Branding, storytelling, soft power: an inquiry into a quiet shift in African capitalism, and what it signals for the leaders of the CEMAC region. The End of Discretion as a Strategy There was a time when the most accomplished African business leader was also the most invisible. Success showed itself in a fleet...

For decades, the CEMAC zone operated on a simple equation: wealth flowed not to the most competent, but to the best-connected. Today, a generational rupture is dismantling this model from within. As fintechs, structured agribusiness, and creative industries gain ground, the old networks of privilege face an unprecedented legitimacy crisis. Analysis of a silent economic...