Break The Mold: Reshaping The Future of African Private Capital

Break The Mold: Reshaping The Future of African Private Capital

📍Radisson Blu Hotel, Nairobi Upper Hill 🗓️ Monday, 27 April – Friday, 1 May 2026   Join the 22nd Annual AVCA Conference & VC Summit for a transformative experience, filled with thoughtfully curated insights, high-impact networking and opportunities to engage with the ideas shaping the continent’s investment landscape. Under the theme Break The Mold: Reshaping the Future of African Private Capital, this year’s agenda explores the next wave of transformation shaping Africa’s investment landscape. Key focus…

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US Government Equity and Equity-Linked Investments in Critical Minerals – Mayer Brown

US Government Equity and Equity-Linked Investments in Critical Minerals – Mayer Brown

Federal equity and equity-linked instruments have become embedded in the sector’s financing architecture, with direct consequences for M&A structuring, capital formation, liability management, governance and exit planning. The US government’s role in critical minerals has shifted materially. Executive actions, agency designations, and sustained public emphasis have framed critical minerals as essential to national security, defense readiness, grid resilience, job creation and advanced manufacturing. That policy posture is now reflected not only in regulation and procurement—but…

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BRVM INVESTMENT DAYS 2026 COMES TO NEW YORK: Positioning WAEMU as an Emerging Destination for Global Investors

BRVM INVESTMENT DAYS 2026 COMES TO NEW YORK: Positioning WAEMU as an Emerging Destination for Global Investors

New York – March 31,2026 – The Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM), the West African Regional Stock Exchange, returns to New York on 21 April 2026 at Nasdaq MarketSite for the latest edition of the BRVM Investment Days roadshow. The event will bring the region’s capital markets into sharper focus for global investors. As global capital looks beyond traditional markets, the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) is fast emerging as a credible destination…

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Loud, Quiet, or Contextual? What European and African Consumer Behaviour Reveals About Status, History and Power

Loud, Quiet, or Contextual?  What European and African Consumer Behaviour Reveals About Status, History and Power

Why does global luxury still treat African consumers as if they haven’t learned “good taste” yet? In this provocative opinion piece, Ray Langa, Group Chief Executive of Leagas Delaney South Africa, dismantles the tired assumption that visible luxury is unsophisticated while European restraint represents refinement. Drawing on decades of consumer psychology research, Langa argues that status signalling isn’t about taste hierarchies but about context: where wealth is entrenched, discretion becomes an insider language; where success…

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Property Investment in Uncertain Times: How to Maximise Returns in a Shifting Economy – Eva August, CEO, Century 21

Property Investment in Uncertain Times: How to Maximise Returns in a Shifting Economy – Eva August, CEO, Century 21

South Africa’s economic environment has rarely felt straightforward, but right now it feels particularly layered. Global trade tensions, domestic fiscal pressures and stubborn unemployment figures have left many buyers and investors hesitant – wondering whether to act or wait. In my experience, hesitation is often where opportunity quietly disappears. The reality is that property has always rewarded those who read the fundamentals rather than the headlines. And right now, the fundamentals are moving in a…

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Railway infrastructure is one of the solutions to Africa’s Trade Expansion – Caroline Trefault, MSC’s Intermodal Africa Manager

Railway infrastructure is one of the solutions to Africa’s Trade Expansion – Caroline Trefault, MSC’s Intermodal Africa Manager

As Africa’s economies continue to diversify and grow at around 4% year-on-year on average, moving goods across the continent is becoming more complex, time-sensitive, and strategically important. Ports are essential gateways for international trade, but the effectiveness of Africa’s trade systems is ultimately determined inland, by how efficiently cargo moves between ports, industrial centres, and consumer markets. Transport infrastructure, including rail, is recognised as crucial to economic development and regional integration in Africa. The United…

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The Precision Transition: Designing Africa’s power systems for reality, not abstraction

The Precision Transition: Designing Africa’s power systems for reality, not abstraction

Last year, I argued in my piece “Lean Carbon, Just Power”, that a limited and temporary increase in African carbon emissions is justified to meet the continent’s urgent electrification needs. That position was not a retreat from climate ambition. It laid out a credible lean-carbon pathway that reconciles power systems development realities with climate arithmetic. The central question remains: not whether emissions must fall, but how much temporary headroom is tolerable to accelerate energy prosperity…

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