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Featured · Frameworks & Theory

Thinking Locally

The case for thinking locally - pitching local as global, and global as local.

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Featured · Behavioural Intelligence

Robert Nyaga from the Busara Centre for Behavioural Economics

Robert Nyaga of Kenya's Busara Centre explains how the institution applies behavioural economics to African decision-making, testing what actually changes how people spend and save.

From SkillBridge Behaviour, Learning & Virtual Agency · 4:36

Still from Robert Nyaga from the Busara Centre for Behavioural Economics

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Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Why Young Africans Are Turning Away From Agriculture

On Builders of Africa, Shamba Pro founder Kelvin Odoobo examines why young Africans turn away from agriculture, arguing farming must be reframed as a business, not a fallback.

via Builders of Africa Podcast

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Why Africans Must Do Business Together

REF DUS draws five lessons from Obasanjo and Dangote on why African countries should build businesses together rather than compete, and what cooperation could do for the economy.

via REF DUS Channel

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Opportunity Cost Explained: The Financial Concept Every Wealth Builder Must Understand

Money Code Africa explains opportunity cost, showing how it shapes spending, saving and investing across Ghana and the continent, and how to weigh what you give up with every choice.

via MONEY CODE AFRICA

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

EP 47: The Psychology of Money: Why Your Mindset Decides If You're Rich or Broke

On Let's Talk Money, Money Fundi founder Mlamuli Mbambo and host Wendy Selebi explore how mindset, more than income, decides whether someone ends up rich or broke.

via Lets Talk Money with Wendy Selebi

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

S2 Ep 5: The Biggest Mistake We're Making About African Entrepreneurship

On The Bold New Normal, Lucy Quist and Jewel Thompson argue the real obstacle to African innovation is not talent but how the continent has been taught to think about entrepreneurship.

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Episode 37 - Jenerali Ulimwengu: Pan-Africanism, African Freedom&The Struggle to Remember Who We Are

On the African Renaissance Podcast, Jenerali Ulimwengu and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi explore the history and future of Pan-Africanism and the urgent work of re-membering the continent's own ideas.

via African Renaissance Podcast

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Episode 36 - Prof. Achille Mbembe: Why Africa Is Still Not Free After 70 Years

On the African Renaissance Podcast, Professor Achille Mbembe examines why the continent is still not free after seventy years, from the postcolony to a world entering a new era of division.

via African Renaissance Podcast

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

The African Renaissance in Academia with Prof Edith Phaswana

On SiyakhulaLive, Professor Edith Phaswana of the Thabo Mbeki African School discusses an African renaissance in academia, and what reclaiming knowledge means for the continent's future.

via SiyakhulaLive with Stellenbosch University

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Beyond Publications: How Africa Can Turn Research into Patents & Progress

Professor Solomon Obaje challenges academics to move beyond publishing papers, showing how African researchers and institutions can convert research into patents and tangible socioeconomic progress.

via AfriScience Network

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Beyond Compliance: Making ISO 22301 a Strategic Advantage for Africa

A PECB webinar shows how organisations across Africa can use the ISO 22301 continuity standard beyond compliance, to build resilience, strengthen governance and blunt the impact of disruptions.

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Licensing Africa - Turning Creativity into Capital

A venture helps African creatives stop selling work cheaply, using licensing and legal structures to protect ownership, generate income and attract investors into the creative economy.

via Business and Law

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

The Psychology of Money in African Households.

Gichure Irungu examines the psychology of money in African households, where earnings are rarely seen as the individual's alone but as a shared resource tied to the extended family.

via GICHURE IRUNGU

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Understanding Theory of Change in Practice

Vantage Africa teaches Theory of Change, forcing project designers past activities to articulate what must happen, in what order and under what conditions for real impact to follow.

via Vantage Africa School of Leadership

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Innovative but Reliable Business Models in Africa: Part 1

Professor Rutendo Hwindingwi opens a series on business models that are both innovative and reliable in African markets, setting out the thinking in this first part.

via Prof. Rutendo Hwindingwi

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Protecting African Fashion from Being Stolen

Fashion Law Africa Summit CEO Sana Ahmed tells The Social how African fashion is appropriated by western brands, with traditional textiles like Kente and Shuka copied and misused.

via The Social CTV

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

The Myth of Africa's "Billion Consumers"

On Africa on Monday, Tosin Taiwo dismantles the billion-consumers myth, noting only two percent of Nigerians can spend over ten dollars a day, and the firms that ignored it paid dearly.

via Tosin Taiwo

Frameworks & Theory

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Simplus Innovation, South Africa, Winner, Best Business Model

An ITU interview with South Africa's Simplus Innovation, winner of a best-business-model award, unpacks the model that earned the recognition and how it reaches its market.

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Why Africans Must Do Business Together

REF DUS draws five lessons from Obasanjo and Dangote on why African countries should build businesses together rather than compete, and what cooperation could do for the economy.

via REF DUS Channel

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Starting your Business Idea in Africa / Understand Your Industry - Lesson 1

The Lean African Entrepreneur's first lesson urges founders to understand their industry before choosing a business idea, a structured way to read a market before entering it.

via The Lean African Entrepreneur

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

What It Takes To Scale Into Rest Of Africa. A Botswana Entrepreneurial Success!

The GrowthWell podcast examines what it takes to scale a Botswana-born business across the rest of Africa, turning one entrepreneur's expansion into a repeatable playbook.

via GROWTH WELL PODCAST

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Strategic Survival Kits for African Founders: Five Frameworks That Turn Chaos into Clarity

African Business Revolution offers founders five decision frameworks to turn growth-stage chaos into clarity, arguing hustle without structure stops working once a company scales.

via African Business Revolution

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Why Most Businesses Fail in Africa Without a Clear Strategy

Business360 TV argues most companies fail in Africa's competitive markets for lack of a clear strategy, and sets out the strategic thinking a firm needs to win locally.

via Business360 TV

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Beyond Compliance: Making ISO 22301 a Strategic Advantage for Africa

A PECB webinar shows how organisations across Africa can use the ISO 22301 continuity standard beyond compliance, to build resilience, strengthen governance and blunt the impact of disruptions.

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

AfCFTA Trade Manual : Strategic Growth Across African Corridors

An AfCFTA trade manual lays out a framework for strategic growth across African corridors, giving businesses a structured way to read which routes and markets to build around.

via Amir H Eftekhary

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Strategic Leadership Frameworks ; Using Strategy as a Competitive Edge

Vantage Africa School of Leadership teaches strategic-leadership frameworks as a competitive edge, showing African managers how structured strategy separates firms that grow from those that stall.

via Vantage Africa School of Leadership

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

African Macadamia Export Opportunity (High-Margin Trade Strategy)

Global Foods Trade frames African macadamia as a high-margin export opportunity, laying out a value-addition strategy for capturing more of the nut's price before it ships.

via Global Foods Trade Pty Ltd

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Understanding Theory of Change in Practice

Vantage Africa teaches Theory of Change, forcing project designers past activities to articulate what must happen, in what order and under what conditions for real impact to follow.

via Vantage Africa School of Leadership

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Innovative but Reliable Business Models in Africa: Part 1

Professor Rutendo Hwindingwi opens a series on business models that are both innovative and reliable in African markets, setting out the thinking in this first part.

via Prof. Rutendo Hwindingwi

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

The Only 5 Sales Strategies You Need in 2026

Vusi Thembekwayo lays out the five sales strategies he says a business needs, reframing selling as a disciplined system rather than a talent some founders simply lack.

via Vusi Thembekwayo

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Panel. Made for Africa: innovative business models for growth, jobs and a sustainable future

An Economist Impact panel asks how business models made for Africa, from agriculture to e-mobility, can drive growth, create jobs and advance a sustainable future across the continent.

via Economist Enterprise - Events

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Virtual Masterclass: Design Thinking & Business Model Innovation

An African Social Enterprise Workshop masterclass teaches design thinking and business-model innovation, giving social entrepreneurs a structured method for building sustainable ventures.

via African Social Enterprise Workshop (ASEW)

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Sustaining Disability Innovation in Africa: A Roundtable on AT, Access, & Investment

At the Inclusive Africa Conference, a panel tackles affordability, market access and investment in assistive technology, asking how to sustain disability innovation across the continent.

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

How Traditional African Markets Inspired Modern Business Strategy: From Oja to E-Commerce

African System argues traditional markets, from the Oja to the modern marketplace, shaped business strategy long before corporate boardrooms, drawing lessons for today's e-commerce.

via African System

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

FHS Africa Podcast Episode 91: TUI Blue's Growth Strategy Across Africa

The FHS Africa podcast dissects TUI Blue's growth strategy across African markets, using a hospitality brand's expansion to show how firms sequence entry into new countries.

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Africa's Business Revolution: Powerful Insights on Growth and Innovation!

Four established entrepreneurs share journeys and strategies in a hard-talk session on how to build, grow and sustain a successful enterprise across African markets.

via Tinashe Nyangari

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Unlocking Africa's Innovation Potential: Building the Future of Business

HapaSpace co-founder Gideon Breo explores Ghana's innovation and technology trends, showing how new ideas drive business growth and opportunity for the continent's young people.

via DTC Official Gh

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Steps TO Start AN Online Business IN Kenya

Wabosha Maxine walks through the steps to start an online business in Kenya, from the idea to the practical setup, for first-timers building a venture on the web.

via Wabosha Maxine

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

The Secret To Ethiopian Airlines’ Incredible Success

Simple Flying breaks down the strategy behind Ethiopian Airlines' success, the operating model and decisions that turned it into Africa's standout aviation business.

via Simple Flying

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

An introduction to policy-making on African Development Corridors/ writing policy briefs l Jon Hobbs

Senior adviser Jon Hobbs introduces the policy and process underpinning Africa's development corridors, and teaches how to write the policy briefs that shape them.

via Development Corridors Partnership

Intellectual · Frameworks & Theory

Business Model Innovation

The IMS Africa Board examines business-model innovation, setting out how organisations rethink the way they create and capture value rather than just tweaking their products.

via IMS Africa Board

Behavioural Intelligence

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Robert Nyaga from the Busara Centre for Behavioural Economics

Robert Nyaga of Kenya's Busara Centre explains how the institution applies behavioural economics to African decision-making, testing what actually changes how people spend and save.

via SkillBridge Behaviour, Learning & Virtual Agency

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Versus Africa - Marketing Intelligence for the African Consumer Market

Versus Africa introduces its marketing-intelligence tool for the African consumer market, built to give local firms the behavioural data global brands take for granted.

via Versus Africa

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Why Young Africans Are Turning Away From Agriculture

On Builders of Africa, Shamba Pro founder Kelvin Odoobo examines why young Africans turn away from agriculture, arguing farming must be reframed as a business, not a fallback.

via Builders of Africa Podcast

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Opportunity Cost Explained: The Financial Concept Every Wealth Builder Must Understand

Money Code Africa explains opportunity cost, showing how it shapes spending, saving and investing across Ghana and the continent, and how to weigh what you give up with every choice.

via MONEY CODE AFRICA

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

EP 47: The Psychology of Money: Why Your Mindset Decides If You're Rich or Broke

On Let's Talk Money, Money Fundi founder Mlamuli Mbambo and host Wendy Selebi explore how mindset, more than income, decides whether someone ends up rich or broke.

via Lets Talk Money with Wendy Selebi

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

S2 Ep 5: The Biggest Mistake We're Making About African Entrepreneurship

On The Bold New Normal, Lucy Quist and Jewel Thompson argue the real obstacle to African innovation is not talent but how the continent has been taught to think about entrepreneurship.

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Consumer Signals

Deloitte Africa's 2026 Consumer Signals reads South Africa's evolving shopper, flagging rising financial anxiety and the behaviour changes businesses must track to keep selling.

via Deloitte Africa

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

The Psychology of Money in African Households.

Gichure Irungu examines the psychology of money in African households, where earnings are rarely seen as the individual's alone but as a shared resource tied to the extended family.

via GICHURE IRUNGU

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

The Myth of Africa's "Billion Consumers"

On Africa on Monday, Tosin Taiwo dismantles the billion-consumers myth, noting only two percent of Nigerians can spend over ten dollars a day, and the firms that ignored it paid dearly.

via Tosin Taiwo

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

[Panel Session 5] Understanding Consumer Trends in West Africa

A Route to Market summit panel unpacks consumer trends in West Africa, reading how shoppers across the region choose, switch and spend as incomes and channels change.

via Route to Market West Africa Summit 2025

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Why Many Intelligent People Stay Poor - The Psychology of Money & Wealth Creation

On Selahmeditate, Dr Seyi Olufemi examines why many intelligent people stay poor, reframing how listeners think about money, discipline, sales and long-term wealth creation.

via SelahMeditate

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Township Shopper Trends and Consumer Insights

Rogerwilco's Mongezi Mtati summarises the 2025 Township CX Report, where price switches brands for 39 percent and seventy percent of spaza shoppers hunt specials on social.

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

[Sponsored] The Trends Shaping Africa’s Economy In 2025

At the Mastercard Indaba, chief economist Khatija Haque shares the trends shaping Africa's economy, reading how consumer behaviour and spending power move the continent's markets.

via Forbes Africa

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Why Most Africans Stay Broke, The Religion, Politics, and Business Trap Keeping You Poor

On Konnected Minds, the host argues Africa's wealth crisis is about mindset not capital, dissecting a five-step wealth ladder, delayed gratification and the beliefs that keep people broke.

via Konnected Minds Podcast

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

How to Sell to Nigerians: The Psychology Behind What Makes Us Buy ft Ayo Akinola

PiggyVest co-founder Ayo Akinola unpacks the mindset and psychology behind why Nigerians buy, and how businesses can read those patterns to scale.

via Totally On Brand

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Understanding African Brand Loyalty: Psychology, Culture & Consumer Behavior Explained

Fieldwork Africa unpacks why African consumers stay loyal to some brands and abandon others, reading the culture and psychology beneath the continent's buying decisions.

via Fieldwork Africa

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Unveiling the South African Consumer - Insights for the Retail Sector

The Bureau of Market Research's anniversary webinar reads the South African consumer through behavioural and economic lenses, flagging brand trust, affordability and digital strategy as retail drivers.

via Bureau of Market Research (Pty) Ltd

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Africa Life: what’s driving consumer behaviour in five of Africa’s key markets?

Kantar's Africa Life explores what drives consumer behaviour across five of the continent's key markets, mapping the lifestyles, mindsets and money habits that shape demand.

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Ae4Ria Seminar: Evidence from Economic Behavioral Experiments with African Farmers and Consumers

An AE4RIA seminar presents evidence from behavioural experiments with African farmers and consumers, showing how real decisions diverge from the textbook economic model.

via AE4RIA - Prof. Phoebe Koundouri

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Behavioural Economics IN Transforming Africa

Derine TV examines how human behaviour and psychology can drive economic transformation in Africa, making the case for designing policy and products around how people actually act.

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

BrandMapp Webinar 1: SA Consumer Trends, March 2025

BrandMapp presents South African consumer trends for 2025, reading survey data on how the country's middle-market consumers earn, spend and switch between brands.

via BrandMapp by WhyFive

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

Insights from Africa | A decade of Black Friday - tapping into consumer trends

BusinessDayTV reads a decade of Black Friday in Africa, using one shopping event to track how the continent's fast-growing consumer markets have shifted their buying behaviour.

via BusinessDayTV

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

How Kemi Longe Became a Marketing Powerhouse in Africa

StoriesandJourneys follows how Kemi Longe became a marketing force in Africa, weaving her rise together with lessons on consumer behaviour and personal branding.

via StoriesandJourneys

Intellectual · Behavioural Intelligence

The African Consumer Behaviour By Feyi Olubodun

Feyi Olubodun shares his insights on African consumer behaviour, offering brands a model of how the continent's shoppers decide, drawn from years reading the market.

Intellectual Property & Brand

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Building Africa's Animation Industry

A UNDP timbuktoo showcase follows twenty African animators who spent four months making original films while learning to protect their intellectual property and sustain animation as a business.

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

SA exploring opportunities in its creative economy

SABC News speaks with WIPO director-general Daren Tang in Johannesburg about South Africa's creative economy and how intellectual-property cooperation turns cultural work into protected, tradable assets.

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

S2 Ep 6: From Raw Materials to Intellectual Property: Africa’s Next Frontier, with Dr Yaw Bediako

On Lucy Quist's show, Dr Yaw Bediako argues Africa's next transformation lies not beneath the ground but in the intellectual property its people create, if the continent can own it.

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Introduction to Intellectual Property IP

South Africa's Companies and Intellectual Property Commission introduces the intellectual-property system, explaining what founders can register and how the state protects it.

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

How to Register a Trademark in South Africa (Protect Your Brand)

Smartbook explains that registering a company does not protect its brand, only a trademark does, and walks South African founders through registering one step by step.

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Beyond Publications: How Africa Can Turn Research into Patents & Progress

Professor Solomon Obaje challenges academics to move beyond publishing papers, showing how African researchers and institutions can convert research into patents and tangible socioeconomic progress.

via AfriScience Network

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Company Names vs Trademarks: Understanding Confusing Similarity

The InnovationCast explains the confusing similarity between company names and trademarks, clearing up why registering a company does not secure the brand a business trades under.

via The InnovationCast

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Licensing Africa - Turning Creativity into Capital

A venture helps African creatives stop selling work cheaply, using licensing and legal structures to protect ownership, generate income and attract investors into the creative economy.

via Business and Law

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Protecting Innovation IN Africa'S Startup Ecosystem

Techeconomy examines protecting innovation in Africa's startup ecosystem, mapping how founders shield the ideas and products that give their ventures an edge.

via TecheconomyTV

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Protecting African Fashion from Being Stolen

Fashion Law Africa Summit CEO Sana Ahmed tells The Social how African fashion is appropriated by western brands, with traditional textiles like Kente and Shuka copied and misused.

via The Social CTV

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Simon Makonde named on Tuesday-Protecting Your Start up;People Ideas & IP

On the Lawtus Podcast, Simon Makonde explains protecting a startup's people, ideas and intellectual property once it becomes a going concern and the stakes of ownership rise.

via Lawtus Podcast

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Privacy By Design: Data Protection Readiness for African Businesses in 2026

A Velex Hub webinar with Bitlipa's Apollo Eric and legal and business advisers shows how African businesses can embed privacy by design and get ready for data-protection rules in 2026.

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Chido Gezimati | Intellectual Property for Creative Businesses

In an African Creative Business Studio session, Chido Gezimati explains intellectual property for creative firms in plain terms: what protection applies once you have made your work.

via Unpublished Africa

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Trade Marks Act 1993: Protecting Brands and Business Identity in South Africa

An explainer unpacks South Africa's Trade Marks Act of 1993, the framework letting businesses register and protect the brands, logos and marks that carry their identity.

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

What is "Passing Off"? A South African Guide to Trademark Law & Common Law Remedies

CT Education breaks down passing off under South African trademark law, explaining the common-law remedies that protect a brand even where no mark was ever registered.

via CT Education

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Why Trademarks in Africa Are Booming - Legal Challenges, Saudi Strategy, and IP Systems Explained

Bonamark explains why trademarks in Africa are drawing global businesses, walking through the legal challenges, filing strategies and the IP systems foreign brands must navigate.

via Bonamark® Trademarks and Business

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Innovation Hub Manager Masterclass on Understanding Intellectual Property (IP) Protection

StartHub Africa runs innovation-hub managers through intellectual-property protection, detailing how to shield the ideas and products emerging from the continent's startup spaces.

via StartHub Africa

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Africa IP SME Helpdesk - Intellectual Property Rights Strategies for SME's in Africa

The Africa IP SME Helpdesk and AfriLabs run a webinar on intellectual-property strategy for small businesses, showing founders how to build IP protection into early growth.

via Intellectual Property in Africa

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Intellectual Property 101: What Every Business Owner Needs to Know

Enterprise Uganda runs business owners through trademarks, patents and copyrights, clearing up the confusion over which protection applies to which part of a growing venture.

via Enterprise Uganda

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Understanding Intellectual Property: A Guide for African Entrepreneurs.

A practical guide to intellectual property for African entrepreneurs, drawn from a WIPO youth conference in Abidjan, explaining how founders protect innovation as they try to scale.

via Christopher 0. Fallah

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

Trademarks in South Africa - an overview by Cipc

Optigrowth presents a CIPC overview of trademarks in South Africa, defining what a brand name, slogan or logo must do to qualify for and keep legal protection.

via OPTIGROWTH (PTY) LTD

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

IP wasn't designed for Africans. Here's how to change it. | Simba Makahamadze

In a TEDx talk, Simba Makahamadze argues intellectual property was not designed for Africans and sets out how the continent could reshape IP to protect its own creative strengths.

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

AfrIPI - Intellectual Property and Innovation

A short note from the AfrIPI programme on why intellectual property underpins innovation, framing it as the protection that lets African creators and inventors build on their ideas.

via Intellectual Property in Africa

Intellectual · Intellectual Property & Brand

AfrIPI - Patents

AfrIPI explains that a mobile phone carries hundreds of patents, and how patents protect an invention by requiring a new, applicable technical solution to be disclosed.

via Intellectual Property in Africa

Foresight & Big Ideas

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Africa Foresight Group

A profile of Africa Foresight Group, an award-winning advisory built to bring strategic foresight and consulting capacity to companies and institutions working on the continent.

via The Authenticity Project

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

South Africa’s Business Future: CCR 247’s in Conversation with Sacci Deputy President Neil Pollock

CCR 247 talks with SACCI deputy president Neil Pollock about what lies ahead for South African businesses and entrepreneurs, and the conditions the economy needs to turn.

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Kenya 2030: Africa’s Next Economic Powerhouse?

The 99% Reality asks whether Kenya is becoming Africa's next economic powerhouse, reading its technology, mobile-money depth and young workforce against the obstacles still in the way.

via The 99% Reality

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Aliko Dangote on the challenges of large-scale development - BBC Africa

Aliko Dangote tells the BBC about the challenges of large-scale development in Africa, drawing on building industry at a scale few on the continent have attempted.

via BBC News Africa

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

AI Summit 2026: AI and the Future of African Enterprise: Reinventing Trust, Growth & Competitiveness

At the CNBC Africa AI Summit, panellists argue artificial intelligence confronts African enterprise with a defining choice, reinventing trust, growth and competitiveness or falling behind.

via CNBC Africa

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Technology and the Future of African Business

On The Leadership Edge, Avetium's group chief executive argues technology will decide the future of African business, and what leaders must change now to stay competitive.

via Avetium HoldCo Ltd

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Africa's $3 Trillion Hustle Nobody Organised

GidiGrit argues Africa's three-trillion-dollar informal hustle is not chaos but an unfinished system, and asks what organising it into formal markets would unlock.

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Creativity That Pays: Expanding Pathways to Opportunity in Nigeria’s Creative Economy

A Policy Innovation Centre session on Nigeria's creative economy examines how to widen the pathways that let artists, designers and digital creators turn their work into durable paying businesses.

via Policy Innovation Centre

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Angola'S NEW City

Angola Investment Group profiles Icolo e Bengo, the aerotropolis new city rising near Luanda, a bet on building a modern urban-and-airport hub to anchor future growth.

via Angola Investment Group

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

The Future of African Fashion Business

AfriFashion Promotion maps the future of African fashion as an industry, arguing designers must build stronger businesses, not just stronger collections, to compete globally.

via AfriFashion Promotion

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Big Ideas Platform Podcast Ep. 9(2026) | Leading With Our Humanity

On the Big Ideas Platform podcast, Dr Amina Salihu argues for leading with humanity, bringing a thinker's lens to how Africa's development and governance should be reframed.

via School of Politics Policy and Governance

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

The Future of Africa’s Creative Economy Ft. Olakunle Shoriyan

A futurist challenges how Africa thinks about its creative talent, arguing the continent must build the systems behind its stars to turn cultural output into a genuinely global creative economy.

via Toyosi And Daniel Etim Effiong

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Episode 37 - Jenerali Ulimwengu: Pan-Africanism, African Freedom&The Struggle to Remember Who We Are

On the African Renaissance Podcast, Jenerali Ulimwengu and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi explore the history and future of Pan-Africanism and the urgent work of re-membering the continent's own ideas.

via African Renaissance Podcast

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Episode 36 - Prof. Achille Mbembe: Why Africa Is Still Not Free After 70 Years

On the African Renaissance Podcast, Professor Achille Mbembe examines why the continent is still not free after seventy years, from the postcolony to a world entering a new era of division.

via African Renaissance Podcast

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Botswana's US$40 Billion Economy Plan CEO Africa Roundtable Backs Vision 2036 Growth Strategy

SnapFlash reports Botswana unveiling a 40-billion-dollar economy plan as the CEO Africa Roundtable backs its Vision 2036 growth strategy, a bid to diversify beyond diamonds.

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

The African Renaissance in Academia with Prof Edith Phaswana

On SiyakhulaLive, Professor Edith Phaswana of the Thabo Mbeki African School discusses an African renaissance in academia, and what reclaiming knowledge means for the continent's future.

via SiyakhulaLive with Stellenbosch University

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Part 4 Theoretical Approaches to Africa’s Development

Kwadwo Fosu walks through the main theoretical approaches to Africa's development, laying out the competing frameworks economists use to explain why countries grow or stall.

via Kwadwo Fosu Inspires

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Part 1 Introduction to Political Economy and Africa’s Development

Kwadwo Fosu introduces political economy and Africa's development, framing how politics and power shape the economic choices that decide which countries actually grow.

via Kwadwo Fosu Inspires

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

From Farming to Space: The Secret Behind Ethiopia’s Record-Breaking 2026 Economy

Be Amazed 254 examines the secret behind Ethiopia's record-breaking 2026 economy, tracing a span from farming reform to a space programme as the country pushes to industrialise.

via Be Amazed 254

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

Namibia’S $100 Billion Leap: Hydrogen, Space & THE NEW African Model

Voices of Africa examines Namibia's 100-billion-dollar leap into green hydrogen and space, asking whether the desert nation is building a genuinely new African growth model.

via Voices of Africa

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

The Simple Genius of Morocco's Economic Rise

Economics Explained unpacks the simple genius behind Morocco's economic rise, reading the industrial policy and positioning that turned the country into a manufacturing gateway.

via Economics Explained

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

The 12 Businesses That Made China Rich - And How Africa Can Copy Them

A comparative argument walks through the dozen industries that drove China's rise and asks which of them Africa could realistically replicate, treating another country's growth as a template.

via African Wealth Today

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

10 Business Ideas That Will Explode in Africa 2026-2027

Ten business opportunities riding Africa's rising middle class, rapid urbanisation and digital revolution, set out for founders choosing where to build next.

Intellectual · Foresight & Big Ideas

"Discover the Astonishing Vision of Angola in 2030: A Future Transformed!"

A look at Angola's 2030 vision lays out the country's plan for an economy transformed, weighing whether diversification can finally loosen crude's grip on national income.

via Which Place

All 9 Business Channels

The forces that move the market.

1,209 programmes · 4 Business Desks 02Money

Follow the capital.

1,143 programmes · 4 Business Desks 03Consumers

Where Africa buys, builds and goes digital.

1,122 programmes · 4 Business Desks 04Intellectual

The thinking behind the doing.

1,134 programmes · 4 Business Desks 05Property

Where Africa builds.

1,133 programmes · 4 Business Desks 06Farming

From soil to scale.

1,146 programmes · 4 Business Desks 07Profiles

The people moving the market.

1,145 programmes · 4 Business Desks 08Lifestyle

Beyond the boardroom.

1,082 programmes · 4 Business Desks 09Bookshelf

The library of the network.

1,028 programmes · 4 Business Desks

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Premiere day: a client team gathers round the boardroom screen as their channel goes live on Cabanga TV.