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Patrick Kana

Africa-France Impact Coalition: five months after Nairobi, time to check the numbers

On Sunday 4 October, Emmanuel Macron hosted the business leaders of the Africa-France Impact Coalition at the Élysée Palace, with Benin’s President Romuald Wadagni as guest of honour. Five months...
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Aliko Dangote, the man who sells Africa to itself

Cement, sugar, fertiliser and now the continent’s biggest refinery. Africa’s wealthiest industrialist has built an empire on import substitution. Central Africa is one of the markets he has not yet...
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What Celine Dion Didn’t Do

Trajectoire — Portrait No. 14 The last great live-music fortune built without owning the masters On Saturday 12 September, a 58-year-old woman who lived with the symptoms of an incurable...
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Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle: the 20-year-old The Battle of de Gaulle pulls back into history

Among the choices that explain the critical success of the French diptych La Bataille de Gaulle — which, with more than 5 million combined admissions, became the surprise box-office triumph...
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Narrative Doesn’t Fund Anything Any More: What LPs Actually Want from African Managers

The money hasn’t left Africa. It has simply become much harder to convince. Institutional investors are no longer asking whether the continent holds promise; they want to know how that...
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The Slowest Asset Class

Africa’s capital markets have become more selective, not smaller — and selectivity puts the pressure on execution rather than on money. Oxford Saïd arrives at AFSIC 2026 as a headline...
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Congo Rising: How the DRC Is Turning Vision into Results

From IMF-endorsed growth to world-class infrastructure and landmark peace-and-prosperity accords, the Democratic Republic of Congo is sending investors, travelers and the international community one clear message: the country is open,...
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FELS Economic Forum 2026: In Douala, Cameroon Stakes Its Claim as CEMAC’s Economic Engine

The 10th edition of the “Doing the Future Together” economic forum, convened by the Elessa Lothin-Sen Foundation, gathered policymakers, central bankers, development financiers and business leaders at the Malimba Club...
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2026 Caméra d’Or: The Triumph of Ben’Imana

Following Iraq in 2025, Rwanda makes its mark on the Croisette. The Caméra d’Or jury, presided over by Monia Chokri, has crowned Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo’s Ben’Imana, a deeply moving work...
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Can CEMAC’s Business Leaders Become a Silent Political Actor?

A Strategic Analysis of a Shadow Mutation in Central Africa. By the Editorial Team Read Time: 12 minutes The Delayed Awakening of the “Wealth Creators” Historically, Central Africa has been...
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MICHAEL: The Million-Ticket Coronation

Within days of its global premiere, Antoine Fuqua’s “MICHAEL” has officially crossed the symbolic milestone of one million admissions. Far beyond a box-office triumph, the film has established itself as...
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Rawbank Holds the Crown. Equity BCDC Tightens the Chase.

Sofibanque Changes Everything. The annual ranking of Central Africa’s largest banks — based on end-2024 balance sheets — confirms a tectonic shift: the Democratic Republic of Congo has become the...
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Heirs Energy secures $750 million from Afreximbank to boost its oil production

This financing, estimated at over 400 billion CFA francs, obtained by Heirs Energy from Afreximbank, aims to optimize its capital structure and support its ambitious development program. This partnership seeks...
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Ministry of Finance outlines mechanisms for Interest free Islamic Finance funding

On December 22, 2025, in Yaoundé, the Cameroonian Ministry of Finance launched a national campaign to promote Islamic finance, in a context marked by the search for alternative mechanisms to...
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