Africa’s deep tech infrastructure gap — researcher pipeline constraints, compute access, and the institutional foundations the boom requires.
Africa’s Deep Tech Boom Is Built on a Fragile Research Foundation
Africa’s Tech Brain Drain: Are Diaspora Return Programmes Actually Working?
Africa tech brain drain and diaspora return programmes — evidence on what works, what fails, and the structural pull factors that dominate.
Africa’s Bootcamp Economy: Can Alternative Training Close the Skills Gap?
Africa’s bootcamp economy 2026 — sector scale, graduation outcomes, employer demand, and whether alternative training can fill the skills gap.
East Africa’s New Data Landlords: Gulf Capital, Digital Sovereignty, and Who Controls the Backbone
Gulf capital is building East Africa’s digital backbone — cable systems, data centres, and what it means for regional digital sovereignty.
Carbon Credits Are Financing Clean Cooking in East Africa — and the AfDB Just Made It Official
AfDB BEEP carbon finance for clean cooking in East Africa — how carbon credits fund cookstove programmes and whether the model scales.
Persistent’s $52M Africa Climate Fund Is Backing the Founders Nobody Else Will
Persistent $52M Africa Climate Ventures first close — fund thesis, LP composition, target sectors, and the gap it aims to fill.
South Africa’s 150% EV Tax Bet: The Factories That Will Benefit Are Not the Ones Already There
South Africa EV manufacturing tax deduction 2026 — 150% deduction design, target beneficiaries, and whether it creates a genuine EV manufacturing hub.
South Africa’s Largest Private Solar+Battery Project Breaks Ground — And It’s Designed to Decarbonise Sasol and Air Liquide
Sola NAOS-1 South Africa solar BESS project — scale, wheeling structure, Sasol and Air Liquide offtake, and financing of the largest private renewable system.
Africa’s Green Hydrogen Moment: $15B in Projects, But Who Are They For?
Africa green hydrogen 2026 — $15B project pipeline, Namibia and South Africa positioning, export vs. domestic use debate, and who captures the value.
AIIM’s ATAF Reaches First Close: The $200M Fund Designed to Fix Africa’s Climate Finance Architecture
AIIM ATAF first close 2026 — $200M fund structure, LP composition, blended finance design, and why the architecture matters for African climate capital.