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Africa Capital Week 2026 Launch
On 15th June 2026, the Kenya Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat, the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), the National Black Chamber of Commerce and other partners, hosted a high-level breakfast meeting in Nairobi to launch Africa Capital Week 2026.
The forum takes place from the 7th to the 11th of September 2026 and aims to connect global capital with investment-ready opportunities across Africa high-level discussions, investor matching, technical workshops, and project site visits designed to move conversations from intent to transactions and lasting partnerships.
Nation Media Group Hosts Africa Capital Week Secretariat
Members of the Africa Capital Week Secretariat, led by its Chairman, Dr. Emmanuel Nzai, were hosted by Nation Media Group CEO Mr. Geoffrey Odundo, Chief Commercial Officer Mr. James Sogoti and Head of Digital Business Mr. Jack Owigar for a courtesy call to discuss a partnership for the upcoming Africa Capital Week 2026.
The discussions explored storytelling and content opportunities around the investment ready projects that will be showcased, thought leadership opportunities during the Nairobi forum and on the sidelines of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Understanding Capital Markets and Their Role in Financing Africa's Growth
Africa's economic ambitions are undeniable. Across the continent, governments are investing in infrastructure, businesses are tapping into new markets, and entrepreneurs are developing solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges. Financing this growth, however, requires more than access to funding; it requires well-functioning capital markets. Capital markets are the mechanisms through which long-term savings are channeled into productive investment. They enable governments to raise funds for public infrastructure and development through bonds, businesses to finance expansion through…
Beyond the Forum: What to Expect from Africa Capital Week 2026
In a few days, Nairobi will host the inaugural Africa Capital Week, bringing together leaders from across the continent’s capital markets and investment ecosystem. Beyond the plenaries, the breakout sessions, and the project site visits, what should we realistically expect from the week? This is not about predicting specific outcomes and deliverables. Those will take shape over the months and years that follow. It is about the conversations that will happen in the room, the questions they raise, and where they might point out the broader capital markets conversation. Here are some of the things to…
The Continental Pulse: This Week in African Capital Markets is all about Upgrades, IPOs and a New Borrowing Playbook.
African capital markets are being taken more seriously by the index compilers, IPO underwriters and treasury officials who move real money. Nigeria is being formally upgraded by FTSE Russell into frontier-market status, a re-rating that unlocks passive capital inflows. Egypt's slow-moving privatisation programme produced its most concrete signal yet, with Misr Life Insurance's IPO now actively underway. Ghana's corporate bond market kept compounding, with a small energy company's debut bond oversubscribed nearly twice over. Kenya's Treasury quietly revealed just how far it's diversifying away from any…
The Continental Pulse: This Week in African Capital Markets is all about Firsts, Flows and a $35 Billion Milestone.
Over the last week, we look at what has dominated African capital markets: what's new, where money is moving, and just how big West Africa's regional exchange has quietly become. Kenya's regulator cleared the country's first-ever locally domiciled ETF, built entirely around its banking sector. In the same week, Kenyan pension funds confirmed they're rotating billions out of government bonds and into equities as yields compress. Elsewhere, Nigeria wrapped up a year-long insurance-sector recapitalisation, Dangote's refinery inched closer to what could be Africa's biggest-ever IPO, and the BRVM crossed…
Inside Africa Capital Week's Plan to Move Markets from Narrative to Term Sheet
Africa's investment story is usually told as one of scarcity. The more interesting truth is misallocation. The African Development Bank's African Economic Outlook 2024 puts the continent's annual development financing gap at more than 400 billion dollars, yet African institutional investors hold trillions of dollars in assets, much of it in low yield instruments. Meanwhile the continent attracts only a sliver of global institutional capital. The problem is not that money is absent, but that the pipes to move it, the institutions to structure it and the markets to absorb it remain underbuilt.
Kenya Plans Expressway Linking Mombasa to Uganda Under PPP
The Director General of the Directorate of Public-Private Partnerships, Kefa Seda, said on Friday that the interconnected projects are being pursued as part of an integrated transport network to strengthen the Northern Corridor and ease the movement of cargo from the Port of Mombasa to regional markets. Under the plan, the Mombasa-Nairobi Highway would connect with the existing Nairobi Expressway before continuing through the proposed Rironi-Mau Summit Highway and eventually joining the Mau Summit-Eldoret-Malaba route towards the Ugandan border.
The Continental Pulse: This Week in African Capital Markets is all about Sovereignty, Scale and a $5bn Bet.
It's been a big fortnight for African capital markets. Nairobi's exchange broke through the $31 billion mark for the first time, Kenya put its Sovereign Wealth Fund into law, Afreximbank pulled off its largest bond sale on record, Dangote lined up what could be the continent's biggest-ever IPO, and Tanzania signalled it's ready to follow Kenya and Nigeria into the listings game. Five different countries, four different capital-raising mechanisms, one shared direction: African capital markets are deepening in real time. Here's what happened, and why it matters for where Africa Capital Week 2026 picks up…
Capital, Pipeline, Policy, and Credibility: The Priorities Shaping Africa’s Capital Future
Africa’s investment challenge is often framed as a shortage of capital or a lack of viable opportunities. Yet capital exists, and so do businesses and projects with the potential to transform economies. The harder problem is connecting the two. Fragmented markets, differences in regulation, limited institutional participation and uneven standards of governance continue to restrict how capital moves across the continent. Investors struggle to find sufficiently prepared opportunities, while promising businesses and projects struggle to access financing that matches their needs. Africa Capital Week 2026…
Africa From Narrative To Term Sheet
Africa's investment story is usually told as one of scarcity. The more interesting truth is misallocation. The African Development Bank's African Economic Outlook 2024 puts the continent's annual development financing gap at more than 400 billion dollars, yet African institutional investors hold trillions of dollars in assets, much of it in low yield instruments. Meanwhile the continent attracts only a sliver of global institutional capital. The problem is not that money is absent, but that the pipes to move it, the institutions to structure it and the markets to absorb it remain underbuilt. That…