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 2026, the presence of Oprah Winfrey at the world’s largest festival of creativity is set to be one of the most anticipated highlights of the...

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 to be here — and that is exactly why they are. The story of five women who didn’t break into power so much as out-calculate...

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 rules. Portrait of an exceptional woman, who rose from Douala to conquer the world, without ever losing her roots. She enters the conversation with the...

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 economic sector with its own market infrastructure. On 7 May, at EICAR Paris, he launched the first edition of LE CLUB — a coproduction hub...

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. Crowned “son of the Ga soil” by King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, the British-Sierra Leonean actor unveiled a multimillion-dollar, 22-acre film studio at the gates...

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 as an economic driver. When Syndy Emade sat down with cemac-eco.finance in 2020, she had a modest ambition: to get Cameroonian films on Netflix. Today,...

The former French president was found guilty of “criminal conspiracy” in the financing of his 2007 campaign. However, the court acquitted him of corruption and issued a deferred committal warrant with the sentence. Paris – A judicial thunderclap and a historic decision. After a sprawling investigation that lasted more than a decade, the Paris Criminal...

New York – In a powerful address to the United Nations General Assembly, Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi made a solemn and urgent appeal: the international recognition of the ongoing tragedy in the east of his country as a “genocide.” Championing the principle of “Genocost,” the Congolese president used the global stage to...

In August 2025, Alain and Cyrille Nkontchou took a bold step forward in their mission to reshape Africa’s banking landscape. Through their pan-African investment fund Enko Capital and the private vehicle Bosquet Investments Ltd, they executed two major deals that are redefining the continent’s financial power dynamics. On August 15, Bosquet Investments Ltd — owned...