You Were Not Born to Build Someone Else’s Economy. A Letter to the African Diaspora.
This one is not about data. Read the ones with data if you want data. This one is about something harder to quantify. You left. Or your parents left. Or…
Kenya Is Raising $500 Million From the Diaspora. Are You In or Out?
Kenya wants $500 million from the diaspora by 2026. It is building the mechanism to get it. Diaspora bonds are not new. Nigeria issued a $300 million diaspora bond in…
Fintech Is Exploding in Africa. Here Is How the Diaspora Gets a Stake.
Between January and August 2025, African startups raised over $2.8 billion in funding. More than in the same period the year before. Fintech led every category. Africa did not become…
The African Diaspora and Investment Act Is Before the US Congress. What It Means for You.
Something passed through the US Congress in 2025 that did not make the front page of any diaspora publication I saw. The African Diaspora and Investment Act. For the first…
Five African Entrepreneurs Who Left Europe to Build on the Continent — and Never Looked Back
She left a senior role at a German logistics firm in 2019. Moved to Accra with two suitcases and a business plan she had been writing on weekends for two…