Stafford Masie says Bitcoin functions as everyday money in parts of Africa, not just a store of value, citing inflation, ...

Zambia’s kwacha and Nigeria’s naira have emerged as Africa’s strongest-performing currencies so far in 2026, signalling a tentative improvement in macro stability across parts of the continent, a ...

PawaPay has partnered with Deriv to enable mobile money deposits across multiple African countries, as both firms accelerate ...

A notification popped up on my LinkedIn the other day: Africans were doing a traditional celebratory dance at the Africa Stablecoin summit in Johannesburg. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

From presidents to springboks, South Africa’s currency charts a journey through power, pride, and identity. Coins and banknotes may seem like mere currency, but in South Africa, they are vessels of ...

Kenya’s Pesalink joins PAPSS to launch instant cross-border payments in local African currencies, lowering costs, boosting SMEs, and advancing financial independence across the continent.

Most books on public finance are written by men, from institutions in the global north, about systems designed in the global ...

For more than a decade, the idea of a truly integrated African market has hovered somewhere between political aspiration and economic inevitability. With the African Continental Free Trade Area ...

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, said the country’s hosting of the African Monetary Institute and later the African Central Bank will place it at the centre of ...