From a $50 million structured financing for an AI-powered Nigerian fashion platform to a $5 million creative debt facility serving 7,000 Kenyan creatives, 2025 delivered a range of deals that together signal a structural shift: Africa’s fashion sector is becoming…
DFIs from Europe, China, and the US are increasing allocations toward Africa’s creative economy. The money comes with mandates — and those mandates do not always align with what the industry actually needs to grow. In the atrium of an…
As development finance institutions circle Africa’s creative economy and private equity begins to pay attention, a critical question emerges, will the capital that arrives be structured to serve the industry, or reshape it in someone else’s image? On a Tuesday…
