From milestone partnerships, exclusive interviews to compelling contents from authoritative sources, here are our favourite pro-development and success stories of the year… 

INTERVIEWS

ROMAIN POIROT-LELLIG: How I built Kwik Delivery, Nigeria’s fastest growing e-commerce in 3 years

SMART CORPORATE: Inside pan-African services group, Centurion International’s listing on German Stock Exchange

SMART ENTERPRISE: Why US Silicon Valley is interested in South Africa’s 3-year-old Startup, CIRT 

SMART CORPORATE: Meet Grace Yella, Tax Director at Africa’s top legal conglomerate, Centurion Law Group

SMART CORPORATE: Meet Elisa Desbordes-Cissé, new Chief Operating Officer at Ecobank Foundation

ALEX FRASER: Here is how we mentor and connect start-ups with seed funding investors in Africa

INSIDE SEIFSA: One-on-One with Lucio Trentini, CEO of Steel and Engineering Federation of Southern Africa

SMART IDEA: How Africa can take advantage of Western sanctions on Russia to escalate gas supply to Europe

SUSTAINABLE AFRICA: One-on-one with Michelle Penlington, Chair of South Africa Plastics Pact Steering Committee

SMART DIASPORA: How young Ghanaians in Netherlands built a Million Paid Subscription platform in one year 

SMART HEALTH: How MSD uses the power of leading-edge science to better lives in Africa

SMART ENTERPRISE: Inside Zandaux.com – the first ‘Alibaba of Africa’ born in Kenya

SOURCES

SMART ENTERPRISE: Nairobi-based MarketForce raises $40M to scale up Super App for Africa’s Merchants

SMART CORPORATE: Inside Equity Group’s 99% growth, Sh40B Profit After Tax despite the pandemic

SMART IN-DEPTH: Opportunities and burdens DR Congo brings to East African Community table

SMART MARKETPLACE: Inside Italian companies looking for business opportunities in Kenya, Africa

SMART MARKETPLACE: Afreximbank, APPO sign MoU for Creation of Multi-Billion-Dollar Energy Bank

SMART MARKETPLACE: The rise of Africa’s Independent Energy Companies

SMART ENTERPRISE: Talk360 raises $4M seed round to expand its business, build African payment platform

SMART CORPORATE: Stanbic Bank supports over 45,000 Women Entrepreneurs, Businesses to Access Funds

SMART MARKETPLACE: Niger, Algeria and Nigeria Reach Milestone for Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline Project

SMART CORPORATE: MultiChoice’s Next Generation of African Storytellers Graduate

SMART CORPORATE: Verdant Capital raises $10M funding for mobile money firm Zeepay

SMART ENTERPRISE: Two young Nigerians raise $2M to simplify cross-border payments across Africa

SMART TECHNOLOGY: PalmPay Hits 10 Million User Milestone in Nigeria

SMART MARKETPLACE: African Women Impact Fund’s $60M to drive an inclusive investment environment

SMART TECHNOLOGY: How Rwanda is Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Healthcare

SMART ENTERPRISE: Uganda’s fintech Tugende raises $10M growth capital, strengthens balance sheet

SMART CORPORATE: African Development Fund mobilizes $8.9B for Africa’s low-income countries

SMART TECHNOLOGY: The Africa Blockchain Center graduates 105 blockchain programmers

PARTNERS

SMART PARTNERSHIP: South Africa’s PR firm Angelfish, Smart Africa Media sign Strategic Partnership deal

SMART MARKETPLACE: Montgomery Group EA and Smart Africa Media sign MoU for Propak East Africa 2022

New York-based PR firm AMA, Smart Africa join forces to deliver quality content for Africa, Diaspora audience

SMART ENTERPRISE: Inside Zandaux.com – the first ‘Alibaba of Africa’ born in Kenya

SMART PARTNERSHIP: Smart Africa and Energy Capital & Power partner for South Sudan Oil and Power

SMART PARTNERSHIP: Smart Africa Media and African Energy Week in Cape Town renew partnership

SMART AFRICA partners with RegTech Africa for the continent’s largest regulatory innovation conference

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