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3 bank deals in 3 regions, and every buyer was African.A Namibian group bid for a South African lender. A Moroccan bank ...
09/10/2026

3 bank deals in 3 regions, and every buyer was African.

A Namibian group bid for a South African lender. A Moroccan bank agreed to take over Société Générale's Ghana business. Kenya cleared Nedbank to take control of NCBA. Kenya's own KCB shows the arc: a Calcutta bank's Mombasa branch in 1896, a buyer in Rwanda and the DRC by 2022, a seller to Nigeria's Access Bank last year.

Nedbank paid the tuition: about $500 million for 21.2% of Ecobank, 2 board seats of 14, sold for $100 million. This time it went for control.

If African banks are buying working businesses to skip years of growth, what would you build for one to buy? 👇

Full story on our Website.



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Cameroon's household soap now earns more abroad than its raw rubber, and Nigeria buys half of it.Soap exports hit CFA52....
08/10/2026

Cameroon's household soap now earns more abroad than its raw rubber, and Nigeria buys half of it.

Soap exports hit CFA52.9 billion in 2025, up 54%. In 2023, soap was 68% of everything Cameroon sold to Nigeria, and 2 new soap plants signed in Douala this month.

The catch is the oil. Cameroon is short 300,000 to 500,000 tonnes of palm oil a year, its refineries run at half capacity, and the state's own palm oil company spent 99.5% of its revenue on payroll.

Who builds the supply between the palm tree and the Douala factory? 👇

Full story on our Website.



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07/10/2026

Highlights from the fourth edition of our annual Business Week Afrika Summit .

A huge thank you to everyone who attended .

A Lagos saver can buy into Dangote's refinery for Sh492.50. A Nairobi saver needs Sh107,000.Kenya approved its first eve...
07/10/2026

A Lagos saver can buy into Dangote's refinery for Sh492.50. A Nairobi saver needs Sh107,000.

Kenya approved its first ever depositary receipt this week, so Kenyans can now buy into Africa's largest share sale in shillings on the NSE. The plumbing is real: Renaissance routes the order to Lagos, Stanbic holds the shares, and 1 receipt per share lists on 8 December.

The catch is the minimum: 2,000 receipts. Dangote wants 10 million retail investors, and both East African doors that opened this week are priced for people who already have money.

Who builds the product that pools 200 savers of Sh535 into 1 order? 👇

Full story on our Website.


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The 4th Business Week Afrika Annual Summit is over, and there is only one thing left to say: Thank you.For 2 days in Nai...
06/10/2026

The 4th Business Week Afrika Annual Summit is over, and there is only one thing left to say:
Thank you.

For 2 days in Nairobi, entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders, policymakers, partners and exhibitors filled the room. You made the conversations happen. You made the connections, bought and sold on the floor, and left with contacts that will outlast the Summit.

But a space only becomes meaningful because of the people who fill it. We built the stage. What happened in the room was yours.

What did you leave with: a connection, an idea, an opportunity, a customer or a partner?

The fastest way to judge a conference is to ask who is building each conversation, and whether they do that work when no...
29/09/2026

The fastest way to judge a conference is to ask who is building each conversation, and whether they do that work when nobody is watching.

All 5 conversations at the Business Week Afrika Summit now have their organizing partners. on market access and cross-border trade, which opens the summit. on Finance and Investment.

IYBA-WE4A on the Green and Sustainable Economy. on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. on the Creative and Digital Economy.

None of them are guests. Each one does this work for a living, which is the difference between a conversation that is built and a panel that is booked.

Whose conversation are you walking into on Thursday? 👇

🎟️ In 2 days, C. U. Shah Jain Bhavan: https://apps.little.africa/events/105

The test of a conference is not whether it was good. It is whether you can tell somebody who did not come what you got.T...
28/09/2026

The test of a conference is not whether it was good. It is whether you can tell somebody who did not come what you got.

The Business Week Afrika Summit runs 5 conversations across October 1 and 2. Finance and Investment. Market Access and Cross-Border Trade. Creative and Digital Economy. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion. Green and Sustainable Economy.

Each one is built around a problem you probably already have, and each one is designed so you walk out holding something specific. The questions capital asks before it says yes. The route your goods take and the people who clear it. Where the money enters a creative business. Which set-aside contracts you qualify for. The green rules your buyers are already asking about.

One ticket opens all 5, and most businesses are stuck in more than one. Which is yours? 👇

🎟️ 3 days left, Oct 1 to 2: https://apps.little.africa/events/105

A conference is only worth the walk if the person beside you needed to meet you as much as you needed to meet them.Kenya...
21/09/2026

A conference is only worth the walk if the person beside you needed to meet you as much as you needed to meet them.

Kenya is spending Sh80bn on 20,000 new conference seats. Bomas of Kenya, the state venue they replace, targeted 94,147 visitors last year and drew 1,158. That is 1.2%.

Seats are easy to build. A reason to walk into them is not. The Business Week Afrika Summit is built the other way round: entrepreneurs short of capital, investors looking for exactly those businesses, policy makers who rarely sit with either, and community leaders bringing delegations.

Which of them are you actually trying to reach? 👇

🎟️ Meet the other 4, Oct 1 to 2: https://apps.little.africa/events/105

The most common reason for skipping a room like this is one nobody ever says out loud.I'm not big enough yet. It sounds ...
18/09/2026

The most common reason for skipping a room like this is one nobody ever says out loud.

I'm not big enough yet. It sounds like humility, so it never gets argued with. But size is not what grows a business. Access is. The largest share sale in African history set its floor at about Sh513 this week, then the platforms crashed. What failed was not the buyer.

Access comes 2 ways. You buy it with financial capital, which most businesses do not have. Or you leverage it through a network: people who have already done it, people actively looking to invest, people growing beside you. That one costs nothing, and almost nobody builds it on purpose.

What did you decide you were too small for this year? 👇

🎟️ The summit is a resource pool, Oct 1 to 2: https://apps.little.africa/events/105

Africa's biggest IPO opened to the public and the platforms crashed under the weight.Dangote's refinery opened its order...
17/09/2026

Africa's biggest IPO opened to the public and the platforms crashed under the weight.

Dangote's refinery opened its order book on 14 September: 4.1 billion new shares, minimum buy N5,250, about Sh513, target 10 million shareholders. One app went down. Another fixed an outage of its own. New account openings had been running 40% above that platform's best month on record.

Nothing was wrong with the appetite. The exchange behind it processed 3.8 million equity trades in 7 months, and is now asked to open up to 10 million accounts in 30 days. Systems built for 10,000 were asked to carry 10 million.

Where else is your industry running on something built for a smaller version of itself? 👇

🎟️ The people building these counters and the people planning to, Oct 1 to 2: https://apps.little.africa/events/105

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