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Who Actually Banks the Entrepreneur?

A scored ranking of ten Central African banks on SME and young-entrepreneur finance — and an account of what the score cannot see No bank in Central Africa publishes the...
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The Full-Vault Paradox

Why Central Africa’s banks do not finance Central Africa — and what architecture could make them I. Anatomy of a rational bank — II. Bankability is not a quality of...
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The Bloc That Speaks in Half-Sentences

BRICS’s New Delhi summit showed a group big enough to rival the West economically — and divided enough to avoid saying so out loud NEW DELHI — For two days...
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Emmanuel Nnorom Takes Over as UBA Group Chairman, Reinforcing Pan-African Growth and Strategic Leadership

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has announced the appointment of Mr. Emmanuel N. Nnorom as Group Chairman, ushering in a new chapter of strategic leadership for one of Africa’s...
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The $6.4bn Bet That Came Undone

Trajectories — Portrait No. 2 Ursula Burns took over a company whose product was being erased by the internet, and spent $6.4bn — the largest acquisition in Xerox’s history —...
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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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Twenty-four markets, one integration: Tola Mobile’s bet on African payments

A payments stack that clears transactions in Lagos will not necessarily clear them in Nairobi. What performs in Accra can stall in Kampala. That fragmentation is the wall most companies...
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Beyond the Pitch Deck: What Investor Readiness Actually Means

Ask a hundred founders whether they are investor ready and ninety will show you a deck. Fifteen slides, a chart bending up and to the right, a market size with...
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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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The $88.6 Billion Sentence: What Gabon’s President Said on a Dusty Border Road — and Why All of Africa Should Listen

Every year, more money leaves Africa illicitly than the continent receives in development aid and foreign investment combined. That money has a face: it is the hospital that was never...
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The End of the Dollar Detour?

Central Africa just plugged into the continent’s largest payment network. What that changes now — and what it doesn’t yet. On 9 July 2026, the Bank of Central African States...
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NOTIFICATION OF RETIREMENT OF GROUP CHAIRMAN OF UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA AND APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR

United Bank for Africa Plc has announced that Mr. Tony O. Elumelu, CFR, Group Chairman of UBA, will retire from the Board of Directors of UBA on 21 August 2026,...
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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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