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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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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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The Douala Exception

Commercial Bank Cameroun spent seven years under provisional administration. NFC Bank spent twelve. IDEV never came out at all. On 11 September 2026, NOFIA S.A. walked out after twelve months....
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AFSIC – Investing in Africa: what London actually offers Central African project sponsors

Investigation. The thirteenth edition of AFSIC – Investing in Africa takes place on 13 and 14 October 2026 at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge in London. Billed as the largest...
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Thuso Mbedu: The Dazzling Rise of a South African Queen Conquering Hollywood

There are trajectories that command admiration, and Thuso Mbedu’s is undeniably of that caliber. In just a few short years, the young South African prodigy has shattered every glass ceiling...
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Mario Van Peebles: The Son of the Fire

How the heir to Black independent cinema’s founding revolution turned an act of cultural insurgency into a durable business model — and why Paris is about to crown him Some...
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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 Long Repayment: Denzel Washington and the Discipline of Giving

Two Academy Awards, a Tony, four decades on screen. And, running quietly underneath all of it, a fifty-year debt that one man has spent his adult life paying back in...
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Twenty-Eight Years at the Door

How Imane Ayissi — dancer, model, self-taught couturier — became the first sub-Saharan African on the calendar of Paris haute couture, and why he is still the only one I....
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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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The Star and the Refusal

Angélique Kidjo, from Ouidah to Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, August 18, 2026 It took forty-three years to travel from a stage in Cotonou to a stretch of pavement on Hollywood...
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The Rule That Moved the Chair

Trajectories — Portrait No. 14, and last Nigeria’s central bank caps non-executive tenure at twelve years, expressly to stop founders entrenching themselves atop the institutions they built. In 2026 the...
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The Passport He Took in 1987

Trajectories — Portrait No. 13 A career built abroad is portable until the day it has to come home. Tidjane Thiam became the first Black chief executive of a FTSE...
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