Vol. 04 / No. 29

Reporting from Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cairo, Accra and across the continent.

Est. 2022

Industry · Nairobi

Kenya’s battery race moves closer to home

A new generation of engineers wants East Africa to manufacture the systems powering its electric buses, motorcycles and miniature grids.

By Peter Muiruri7 min read

Culture · Accra

The archive rewriting Ghanaian fashion history

In Accra, a living collection of garments, photographs and oral histories is giving designers a richer vocabulary for the future.

Sena K. Danso · 6 min read

Music Business · London / Lagos

Lawyers, data analysts and rights managers are building the less glamorous infrastructure of Africa’s most visible cultural export.

Teni Adebayo · 10 min read

Shapers reporting

Stories worth your time

People moving the continent forward

Builders, thinkers and cultural forces changing how Africa works, creates and imagines what comes next.

Nairobi · 7 min read

A new generation of engineers wants East Africa to manufacture the systems powering its electric buses, motorcycles and miniature grids.

By Peter Muiruri

Accra · 6 min read

In Accra, a living collection of garments, photographs and oral histories is giving designers a richer vocabulary for the future.

By Sena K. Danso

London / Lagos · 10 min read

Lawyers, data analysts and rights managers are building the less glamorous infrastructure of Africa’s most visible cultural export.

By Teni Adebayo

Briefings from within

Close readings of the networks, decisions and quiet infrastructure behind the continent's biggest shifts.

Music Business · London / Lagos

The Morning Dispatch

A sharp weekday briefing of the stories, signals and shifts that matter across the continent.