Trajectories — Portrait No. 5 Africa’s largest technology exit is usually reported as $682m. The figure adds a payment that was made to one that may never be, and excludes...Read More
Trajectories — Portrait No. 4 Infrastructure is a rent asset. Airports, ports and power grids earn their returns from the absence of a substitute, not from competitive advantage — which...Read More
Trajectories — Portrait No. 3 Central African economies pay better for trading than for making. Importing a container requires working capital and a licence; building the factory requires energy, a...Read More
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 —...Read More
Trajectories — Portrait No. 1 Strive Masiyiwa spent five years and most of his money in court, arguing that Zimbabwe’s telephone monopoly was an assault on free speech. He won,...Read More
For the best part of a decade, Ousmane Dembélé was football’s most tantalising unfinished sentence — all gift, few moments. Then came a June night in Boston, three goals, and...Read More
Standfirst: It took a World Cup night, an opponent that refused to bend, and a strike from another planet. East Rutherford, June 16, 2026: with a decisive brace against Senegal...Read More
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Europe’s largest technology show has secured the most coveted signature on the planet. On Wednesday, June 17, 2026, Jeff Bezos — founder of Amazon, of...Read More
When Cannes Lions welcomes a speaker, it is never simply about celebrating a career. It is about creating a dialogue on influence, leadership, and the power to shape culture. In...Read More
One runs Africa’s biggest bank. One governs a country at war. One holds a presidency, one a 130,000-strong empire, one the rules of world trade. None of them was supposed...Read More
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...Read More
Blaise Pascal Tanguy, founder of L’Afrique Fait Son Cinéma and the driving force behind LE CLUB, champions a vision rare in the cultural sector: turning Afro-Caribbean cinema into a structured...Read More
The British actor’s $multi-million studio project transforms Accra into a global film hub—an economic blueprint for central africans nations On March 25, 2025, Idris Elba did not merely visit Ghana....Read More
Five years after telling us she dreamed of Netflix deals, the Blue Rain Entertainment founder has built the CEMAC region’s first streaming empire—and proven that creative industries can outshine oil...Read More
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