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Follow the themes shaping African capital without relying on stale price tables. These desks organise our reporting around the decisions, policies and industries moving markets.
Exchange performance, IPOs, capital raises, listed companies and the investors allocating across African equities.
Explore coverage →Central-bank decisions, FX reform, inflation, sovereign borrowing and the policy choices influencing capital.
Explore coverage →Oil, gas, gold, copper and critical minerals through the lens of African producers, processors and investors.
Explore coverage →Private equity, foreign investment, institutional capital, infrastructure finance and cross-border dealmaking.
Explore coverage →The narrative that African markets are high-risk is a legacy of a data vacuum, not a reflection of current fundamentals. The risk-reward profile on several African sovereign bonds now compares favourably with similarly-rated EM peers.
Infrastructure bonds are the most underutilised instrument in African capital markets. Pension funds are sitting on long-duration liabilities they cannot match. The pipeline of bankable projects is real. The barrier is structuring, not capital.
We are entering a decade where African commodity producers will extract far more value from their resources than ever before. Processing, refining, manufacturing on-continent. The margin shift is structural. Investors who understand this are already positioning.