Commentary on leadership, governance, entrepreneurship, and Africa's changing role in the world.
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso hold 51% of West Africa's cattle for 17% of its people, yet imports win the coastal plate. Why Sahelian meat is decided in corridors, costs and policy.
Read the article →The African Credit Rating Agency launches on 7 October 2026. Why AfCRA is a bet on better information, price discovery and the cost of African capital, not better optics.
Read the article →Nigeria generates 4,312 MW from 13,625 MW installed and loses 37% of the energy its distributors receive. West Africa's real power gap is distribution, losses and finance.
Read the article →Senegal reports 125.8% mobile penetration, Guinea-Bissau 128.1%, yet real internet usage differs by a factor of two. Who is winning mobile connectivity in West Africa?
Read the article →Intra-African trade is 16% of the continent's total, against 60% in Asia. Resolution of trade barriers now takes 274 days. Non-tariff barriers, not tariffs, are the binding constraint.
Read the article →Account ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa rose from 34% to 58% in a decade, led by mobile money. The real bet is on the infrastructure that connects fifteen markets.
Read the article →Ghana holds a Tier 1 global cybersecurity ranking while Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal sit in Tier 3. AI now enables 55% of reported cybercrimes in Africa. The gap is institutional.
Read the article →More than $2 trillion moved through mobile wallets in 2025, and Sub-Saharan Africa generated 66% of it. Four of fifteen West African states still have no data-protection law.
Read the article →Ninety percent of West Africa's trade already moves by sea. Illegal fishing and piracy drain more than $4 billion a year. Why the blue economy is still not part of the conversation.
Read the article →Guinea exported 145 million tonnes of raw bauxite in 2024. Its only refinery processed 0.6 million tonnes. A 15-country map of West Africa's mineral wealth and the missing factories.
Read the article →Four of the world's five most terrorism-affected states are ECOWAS founding members. Three no longer have field monitors. What AI can and cannot fix.
Read the article →Mobile money processed $357 billion across 485 million accounts in 2024. Broadband adoption remains below 40%. What that gap means for leaders.
Read the article →A 1% rise in AI adoption lifts agricultural productivity by 12% across 53 African countries. The technology works. Data governance, connectivity and regulation do not yet.
Read the article →Canada's Africa Strategy launched with no new budget, while its economy still sends 72% of exports to a single buyer. Why Africa is a structural necessity, not a preference.
Read the article →African banks posted a return on equity nearly double the global average. No African market has crossed 20% AI adoption. That gap is the strategic story of the next decade.
Read the article →Five deadlines have already come and gone. A sixth is now set for 2027. Seven measurable conditions, not a summit declaration, will decide if it holds.
Read the article →Nearly one million people in West Africa have no recognized nationality, and 47 million children are unregistered. The cost is economic, and it is security.
Read the article →AfDB's own data shows a third of operations underperforming despite record financing. The fix isn't more imported consulting. It's a dedicated local-intelligence layer.
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