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Travel & Culture

Rhythm and ruin

An in-depth exploration of the economic anatomy, tourism impacts, and fragile sustainability models driving music, film, food, and literary festivals across the region By Our Staff Writer In…

Style & Living

Cut from a different cloth

Kenya’s creative economy is attempting a high-wire transformation from boutique artisanal production to scalable, export-led manufacturing. Behind the aesthetic appeal lies a stark economic calculus: margins, supply chains,…

People & Leadership

The ultimate export

As foreign remote pay breaks the monopoly of traditional corporate offices, regional firms face a hard choice: match global terms or lose critical talent. By Kirimi Mbogo Corporate…

Travel & Culture

Afrobeats became global. What comes next?

Africa’s musical breakthrough was never simply about exporting a genre. The bigger prize is building an industry that can export artists, intellectual property, live experiences and culture on…

Style & Living

The new luxury is African

Africa once supplied luxury with its materials and motifs. Now its designers are selling something harder to replicate: the provenance, craft and cultural memory embedded in the object…