InvestigationAccra's silent logistics gap is reshaping how West African founders scale
A six-month reporting project tracing the warehousing bottlenecks, port delays, and informal corridors that decide which ventures survive year one.
News
Reporting, investigations, and desk notes. Independent editorial, held to an expert-journalist standard.
Investigation
Sub-Saharan Africa's recorded music passed $120m. The real story is who gets paid
IFPI puts regional recorded revenue at $120m for 2025, up 15.2%. Streaming drives it. But the money still concentrates far from the studios.
Eyes on the community
Ghana's fashion industry added $2.42bn to GDP. The makers see little of it
The Ministry puts fashion at roughly 3% of GDP and 25,000 formal jobs. The seamstresses and tailors behind it describe a different economy.
Investigation
African fintech took $640m of H1 2025 VC. Here is where it went
Fintech absorbed 45% of African startup investment in the first half of 2025. We trace the concentration and what it leaves behind.
Desk note
Ten million young Africans enter the job market each year. Three million jobs appear
The African Development Bank puts the annual gap in stark terms. Entrepreneurship is the only math that closes it.
Eyes on the community
Why three borders reopened, and what it changes for trade
The reopening most traders waited two years for, and the corridors it unlocks.
Programs
The incubator cohort betting on climate-adaptive agriculture
Twelve ventures, one constraint: growing food that survives the new weather.
Desk note
How we verify: our standard for sourcing and correction
Credibility is the only asset we have. Here is how we protect it.
Eyes on the community
Lagos to Nairobi: a corridor of small manufacturers going regional
Not the unicorns. The boring, profitable, border-hopping mid-market firms.
Investigation
The consultant class cashing in on Africa's digitisation push
Who wins the government modernisation contracts, and what gets delivered.
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