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Ghana Just Did What No West African Country Has Done: Put a Price on Charging an EV
Buried inside Ghana’s routine quarterly electricity rate review was something historic: Africa’s first regulated commercial EV charging tariff. Here is what it means for EV infrastructure investment across West Africa.
The 1% Promise: Which African Governments Are Meeting the Kigali R&D Commitment — and What the Gap Costs the Continent
Nineteen years after African Union member states pledged to spend 1% of GDP on R&D, a country-by-country accountability analysis shows fewer than five are close. The data reveals what the shortfall costs Africa’s AI and deep-tech pipeline.
The 1% Promise: Which African Governments Are Meeting the Kigali R&D Commitment — and What the Gap Costs the Continent
Nineteen years after African Union heads of state pledged to spend 1% of GDP on R&D, fewer than five countries are close. A BETAR.africa data analysis of what the gap costs Africa’s AI and deep-tech pipeline.
Africa Offshore Wind: Zero Commissioned Capacity Despite 100GW Announced Projects
Africa has extraordinary offshore wind resources and precisely zero commissioned megawatts — an investigation into the regulatory, financing, and infrastructure barriers blocking the continent’s highest-potential energy source.
Africa Offshore Wind: Zero Commissioned Capacity Despite 100GW Announced Projects
Africa has extraordinary offshore wind resources and precisely zero commissioned megawatts. An investigation into the regulatory, financing, and infrastructure barriers blocking the continent’s highest-potential energy source.
Nigeria Fintech M&A Pipeline Q2 2026: Who Is Buying the Compliance Laggards?
CBN’s compliance window has closed. An estimated 40–60 tier-two and tier-three fintechs cannot meet the four-mandate stack. Who has the capital and strategic logic to be the acquirer — and who will be acquired?
The Merch Gap: Why African Creators Leave Money on the Table With Physical Products
African creators with millions of followers consistently under-earn on physical merchandise. The problem is not audience size — it is a compound cost stack: production premiums, dollar-denominated platform fees, and cross-border fulfilment that often doubles the landed price.
Africa’s Reality TV Format Economy: Inside the Business of Big Brother Naija, Format Fees, and the Sponsor Arms Race
Big Brother Naija generates N10 billion in seasonal sponsorship against N5.6 billion in production costs. A full breakdown of Africa’s reality TV format economy — format fees, sponsor structures, voting economics, and who owns the IP.
Building a Game Studio in Africa Costs $3,000 a Month. Publishing One Game Costs Three Times That. The Unit Economics Explain Why African Studios Struggle to Scale.
Africa has 349 million gamers and fewer than 200 commercially active studios. The gap is a unit economics problem — and it starts before a single line of code is written.
Nigeria Banks at Day 35: The CBN Blinks, the Courts Are Deciding, and No Buyer Has Moved
Thirty-five days after Nigeria’s March 31 banking recapitalisation deadline, the CBN has issued no formal enforcement action against the three non-compliant banks. What the regulator’s containment posture means — and when it has to end.
