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Ghana’s Crypto Licence Opens the Investment Gate — and VCs Are Ready to Move

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Africa’s Social Commerce Economy: What Creators Earn, What Platforms Take, and Who Controls the Revenue Stack

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Africa’s social commerce market hit .51 billion in 2024 growing at 38 percent annually — but TikTok Creator Fund exclusions and platform fee structures mean creators in Nigeria and Kenya are capturing a fraction of the value they generate.
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Africa’s Digital Infrastructure Divide: Who Is Ready — and Who Is Being Left Behind

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BETAR.africa’s Africa Digital Infrastructure Index (ADII) scores ten economies across five pillars. South Africa leads with 88/100; Ethiopia trails at 23. The gap is structural — and wider than any comparable pair of economies on any other continent.
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The Ownership Divide: Africa’s Animation Studios and the Economics of IP

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  • March 10, 2026
Africa’s animation studios are at an economic inflection point: the IP origination model pioneered by Kugali with Disney+ offers a path beyond work-for-hire, but capitalisation gaps and platform royalty refusals mean most studios remain in a structural trap where they generate value they cannot retain.
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Africa’s First Carbon Finance Play for Clean Cooking: AfDB Bets Voluntary Markets Can Fix the Cooking Crisis

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The African Development Bank’s BEEP programme is Africa’s first carbon finance deal for electric cooking — deploying 115,000 induction cookers in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia using voluntary carbon credit sales as upfront capital.
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Africa Podcast Economy: Revenue Models, Ad Rates and the Race to Monetise

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Africa has among the world fastest-growing podcast audiences, but advertising revenue is not keeping up. The economics of the continent audio boom reveal a market rich in listeners and thin in dollars.
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Africa’s Data Centre Boom: The Infrastructure Race Reshaping the Continent’s Digital Economy

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Africa’s data centre market is set to double to $4.36 billion by 2031. From Microsoft’s $300 million South Africa commitment to Equinix’s Lagos campus, here’s who is building Africa’s cloud future — and what’s at stake.
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Brain Drain vs Brain Gain: Which African Countries Are Winning the Talent War?

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  • March 10, 2026
70,000 skilled professionals leave Africa annually. Nigeria loses 49% of doctors by year 15. But Rwanda, Ghana, and Kenya are demonstrating that the talent war is winnable — not by stopping emigration, but by competing for return.
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Africa EV Revolution Is Being Powered by Battery Swaps: Spiro, BasiGo, and Roam Lead the Charge

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  • March 10, 2026
Kenya EV motorcycles hit 15.3% market share in 2025. Spiro raised $150M. BasiGo has 100 electric buses. The battery-swap model is transforming African transport — here is why.
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Africa Green Bond Market Comes of Age: Nigeria Leads Surge as Climate Finance Tops $9.6 Billion

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Africa has issued $9.6 billion in green bonds across 76 issuances since 2013. Nigeria leads sovereign issuance, Nedbank leads private sector volume. But Africa still accounts for less than 1% of the global market.
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Africa Solar Mini-Grid Boom: $46 Billion Needed as Installations Hit Record Growth in 2025

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Africa solar installations jumped 54% in 2025 — fastest growth on record. But the World Bank’s Mission 300 needs $46B by 2030 to electrify 300 million people. Here is who is building and what the gap looks like.
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Ghana’s Crypto Licence Opens the Investment Gate — and VCs Are Ready to Move

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Africa’s Influencer Economy: The Real Numbers Behind the Brand Deals

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Africa’s Streaming Wars Are Over. The Market Won.

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