Africa In Focus
Africa is one of the world's most dynamic business environments. Africa.com's podcast delivers credible, in-depth conversations with the leaders shaping the continent's economic landscape — covering markets, technology, investment, and policy with the intelligence and clarity global audiences demand.
Episodes
Explore the coordinated effort to dismantle the sovereign risk premium as African leaders demand credit reform at the Nairobi Summit. This episode also breaks down the massive profit surges in regional telecoms and Aliko Dangote’s ambitious 20,000-megawatt private power play.
At the 2026 Venice Biennale, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art brought 100 guests to preview week, anchoring a distinctly African lens on one of the world’s biggest art stages. This episode explores Koyo Kouoh’s vision for In Minor Keys, the presence of 13 African nations, and the role of NMAfA’s Art Ambassadors in helping shape how African pavilions are seen, discussed, and remembered. From guided tours to deeper qu...
We examine China’s zero-tariff move for 53 African countries and ask whether it will drive real industrial upgrading or simply more exports of raw commodities. The episode also explores how corridors, banks, and distressed mineral assets like Lobito, Equity Group’s expansion, and Ambatovy may shape who controls Africa’s next phase of value creation.
This episode examines how political systems in Benin, Djibouti, and South Sudan are managing continuity while shrinking real competition, and why those patterns matter for governance and stability.
It also looks at South Africa’s legal and diplomatic pressures, Ghana’s cautious economic rebound, and Sudan’s worsening humanitarian crisis as the real cost of uncertainty comes into focus.
Brent crude above $100 and a Hormuz disruption would hit African importers fast, lifting fuel, transport, food, and fiscal pressures. At the same time, Morocco’s $1.2 billion renewable-powered AI deal shows how stability, legal clarity, and strategic location are still drawing in capital even as investors grow more selective across the continent.
Africa’s growth outlook is improving, with broad-based GDP gains, lower inflation, and stronger inflows from FDI and remittances. But the episode also examines how the Hormuz crisis and surging oil prices are squeezing fuel-importing economies, reshaping fiscal responses, and shifting capital toward infrastructure, energy, and industrial projects.
Africa’s story in 2026 will not be shaped by a single narrative. Some of the most important developments ahead, particularly in trade, security, and geopolitics, will affect every African Union (AU) member state. Others will emerge at a national or local level, yet carry ripple effects that extend far beyond their borders. Some of these impacts will be tangible and immediate; others will be symbolic, signaling deeper shifts still u...
This interview with Sabine Mensah, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of AfricaNenda, focuses on the organization's role in assisting African governments with digital financial inclusion. Sabine explains how AfricaNenda helps map out needs and strategies for governments, focusing on creating inclusive and interoperable national payment systems. The goal is to ensure that various stakeholders, including regulators, ministries, and capac...
In this podcast by Africa.com, Emmanuel Khisa shares insights on the organization's role in supporting African governments in building effective and inclusive Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). He highlights Zambia's success with electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) systems, which have transformed digital health and social protection services. Khisa also emphasizes the importance of political will, strong infrastructure, and tail...
Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of AfCFTA, discusses the challenges and progress in implementing Africa’s digital trade protocol. While overcoming initial hurdles like data movement and payment systems was key, the real challenge now is implementation. Mene highlights the need for capacity-building, advocacy, and the strong political will of 48 countries already committed. He is optimistic that private sector investment, supported ...
In the interview, Mohammed Abdi Mashaka, Director of Information Systems Development at Tanzania's Ministry of ICT, highlights the country’s progress in Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). He emphasizes governance, innovation, and the development of the "JAMI stack" for digital payments, identity, and data-sharing to improve public services. Despite challenges like connectivity, Tanzania is expanding wireless and fiber-optic solut...
70% of Africans make a living through agriculture, and technology could transform their world. Rural areas are chronically underserved by financial service providers, which is a limiting factor for economic development. Even where financial services are accessible, evidence shows that social concerns are often not fully incorporated in funding decisions and the delivery of services.
Standard Bank brings you this six-part series...
Many African companies have realised that life will never be the same again post Covid-19. Business survival will, to a large extent, depend on how organisations embrace the future, use technology, invest in skilling and re-skilling employees, develop tailor-made employee benefits, incorporate mental well-being into HR models, develop sustainable working models, and embed Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices in busi...
Many mining and minerals businesses are already taking active steps on their ESG agenda; identifying their priorities and measuring their performance. But the real benefits come when you move beyond measurement and take action to improve.
Blockchain is, for many people, still synonymous with cryptocurrencies and financial applications. Yet the features that make blockchain technologies so appealing for asset management and monetary transactions -- transparency, tamper-resistance, efficiency, and smart contracts -- are also useful in areas that have little to do with finance.
Investing in impact businesses can increase access to basic services such as finance, healthcare, education, clean water, and energy. Several prominent examples in Africa demonstrate that impact businesses can be both profitable and beneficial for a wide range of stakeholders and while offering tangible social and economic benefits.
Podcast host Teresa Clarke invited two women who are very familiar with the impact investing space. ...
Africa’s situation deserves extraordinary attention: the continent contributes just 4 percent of global total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the lowest of any region, yet its socio-economic development is threatened by the climate crisis. In other words, Africa contributes the least emissions but suffers the brunt of the consequences.
Africa.com's TERESA CLARKE talks with SIMON FREEMANTLE, Senior Political Economist, Standard Bank...
Men significantly outnumber women not just at the senior management and board levels but at every stage of the African Corporate pipeline. This is why Africa.com is committed to supporting talented women who aspire to climb the corporate ladder in Africa.
This workshop will inspire junior women by hearing the story of a successful African woman who reached the pinnacle of the corporate ladder, followed by an interactive session wit...
On October 13, 2021, we began the journey of supporting every African woman to take on a new dream – climbing the corporate ladder to the number one spot.
In addition to revealing the names of the 50 women on the Africa.c...
GE Healthcare – East Africa Projects Development Director Alexander Oketch
KUTRRH is poised to become the only Public facility in East and Central African region to offer the comprehensive continuum of cancer care with the establishment of an MIC. This centre will have state of the art technologies that will help in early diagnosis and management of cancer that will be expected to increase the survivorship of cancer patients, rever...
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