Finance, investment, innovation and diplomacy take centre stage as prominent African and international decision-makers convene in the French capital. Paris, October 23, 2026 | CEMAC-ECO.FINANCE The fourth edition of Africa...Read More
From November 5 to 14, 2026, the EICAR Paris campus will host the 8th edition of the international film festival L’Afrique Fait Son Cinéma. By appointing Clémentine Célarié and Lucien...Read More
Nollywood dubbed into French conquered francophone Africa two decades ago. The traffic is only now starting to move the other way. Dubbing is the cheapest cultural export policy nobody funds....Read More
Across Central Africa, more people watch video on a phone than on a television set. Broadcasters still sell advertising as if the opposite were true. The television business in the...Read More
Global platforms arrived in Nigeria with commissioning budgets, then pulled back. African producers rebuilt on the platform that never left: YouTube. For a few years, streaming money transformed African screen...Read More
Cameroon’s English-language film industry grew up in Buea, at the foot of Mount Cameroon. Then the region became a war zone. The films kept coming, from elsewhere. Long before streaming,...Read More
The Recording Academy created a Best African Music Performance award. Its winners so far have come from South Africa and Nigeria. The gap says less about talent than about infrastructure....Read More
One phrase from a Cameroonian saxophonist’s 1972 B-side became one of the most recognisable refrains in pop music. The story of who got paid, and when, is the story of...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
Governments across Africa tried to tax digital transfers. Ghana’s levy became so unpopular it was abolished. Cameroon’s is still collected. Which approach raised money, and which drove people back to...Read More
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,...Read More
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....Read More
Central Africa’s diaspora sends money home every month. No CEMAC state has ever asked it to lend. Nigeria raised $300m from its diaspora in 2017. The idea deserves a serious...Read More
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