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Through bonds, salary contributions and grassroots fundraising, Ethiopians helped finance Africa’s largest hydroelectric power plant. Can their extraordinary experiment in domestic financing offer a blueprint for the rest of the continent?

If Kenya is the world’s leading exporter of black tea, how come the 834,000 smallholder farmers growing tea across Kenya’s highland counties still cannot meet the country’s poverty threshold? This is the story of what happens to tea money after the digital scale beeps.

In wartime Sudan, civilians have built alternative financial networks to keep money circulating despite a broken banking system, enabling people to pay for food, healthcare and other necessities.

In recent years, Lagos weddings have become spectacles, in scope, in scale, in animation and in sheer grandeur. Despite Nigeria’s economic instability, the wedding industry, especially in the country’s economic hub, continues to flourish, revealing a complex ecosystem driven by social expectations, cultural pride and rising consumerism.