Hear from those leading initiatives and advocacy to lower the cost of borrowing for Africa.
Videos
Financing Africa Foward Summit
Panel 1 – Setting the scene and moving the needle
Panel 2 – Co-ordinating Africa’s institutional response
Panel 3 – Enhancing country-level capacity to improve investor relations
Panel 4 – Deepening the evidence base and enhancing data availability
Podcasts
Articles
To attract investors, Africa must smash economic stereotypes
Hanan Morsy
Updated: July 30, 2025 | United Nations
The invisible tax: why Africa’s citizens are paying the price
David McNair
Updated: November 04 , 2025 | Mo Ibrahim Foundation
The invisible tax: why Africa’s citizens are paying the price
Marcus Courage
Updated: November 17 , 2025 | Africa Practice
Seville compromise or a Johannesburg mandate: Financing Africa forward
Dr. Margarita Dimova
Updated: July 07 , 2025 | Africa Practice
The weighted vest hindering African development
Marcus Courage
Updated: July 02 , 2025 | Africa Practice
Perception vs reality: The drivers of Africa’s risk premium
Updated: June 04 , 2025 | Africa Practice
How Africa is moving towards production sovereignty
Updated: January 09 , 2026 | Marcus Courage
‘Prejudice Premium’ Cost Africa $75 Billion a Year, African Finance Corp Says
Updated: August 05 , 2025 | Adelide Changole
Africa needs its own credit rating agency
Updated: Fedruary 16 , 2026 | Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Beyond the Africa risk premium and why Afreximbank just proved our point
Updated: January 28 , 2026 | Krsna Powell
Preferred creditor treatment and multilateral development banks’ mobilisation agenda
Updated: February 16 , 2026 | ODI Global
Senegal has a mystery Togolese bond bid
Updated: February 18 , 2026 | Joseph Cotterill
Zambia calls for domestic debt to be part of major indices
Updated: February 20 , 2026 | Monica Mark & Joseph Cotterill
African regional blocs rally behind the New African Financial Architecture to mobilise Africa’s capital power and close Africa’s financing gap
Updated: February 16 , 2026 | AFDB
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