The Quiet Music Pipeline Linking Brazil and Angola
A music-industry bridge is forming between Brazil and Angola, as distributors and platforms wire Portuguese-speaking Africa into the same streaming...
June 22, 2026Africa’s capital markets are deepening fast – from the Johannesburg, Nairobi and Lagos exchanges to a fintech boom banking hundreds of millions of people for the first time. The Rio Times follows the currencies (the rand, naira, cedi and shilling), the banks and IPOs, sovereign debt and the foreign capital arriving on increasingly local terms. We cover it through the same investor lens we bring to Latin America, where the emerging-market playbook is strikingly similar. This hub gathers our Africa markets and investment coverage.
A music-industry bridge is forming between Brazil and Angola, as distributors and platforms wire Portuguese-speaking Africa into the same streaming...
June 22, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for Monday: from Absa pushing capital into Kenya and Ghana refusing US money to protect its citizens'...
June 22, 2026
Gold above $4,500/oz drives Ghana's fastest expansion in years, but a stronger cedi shrinks cocoa export revenues, squeezing the farmers...
June 22, 2026
Wizkid, Burna Boy, Tyla and Asake top the bill July 3-5 at Praia da Rocha, Algarve. The world's biggest Afrobeats...
June 22, 2026
Kenya's Gen Z returns to protest near the June 25 anniversary, angered by new levies on bread, mobile money, and...
June 22, 2026
Africa's trade topped $1.5 trillion in 2025 and its economy outgrew the world's, a new African trade report from Afreximbank...
June 22, 2026
Richemont's record year brought €22.4bn in sales and a 27% profit jump, yet a slowing China and rival Laopu Gold...
June 22, 2026
Aliko Dangote claims his Lagos refinery alone is worth over US$40 billion, far above Forbes' US$38bn fortune estimate. See why...
June 22, 2026
A record 10 African teams are at the 2026 World Cup, from Cabo Verde's debut to Morocco's charge. See who...
June 22, 2026