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Productive Use Has Challenges: What’s Holding the Sector Back — And How Companies and Investors Should Respond

Across Africa, renewable energy is powering more homes than ever, but it hasn’t yet powered prosperity. For smallholder farmers, productive-use technologies such as solar irrigation, cold storage and agro-processing can have a transformative impact. They can reduce post-harvest losses by up to


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Rethinking What it Means to Start a Business: Why Systemic Venture Building Matters for Africa’s Food Future

Here’s a reality that’s becoming increasingly clear in African business: The continent’s entrepreneurs are often seen as risky investments not due to any limitations of their own businesses, but because of the risks in the systems around them. As a result, if we want more African ventures to thrive, we shouldn’t only focus on de-risking individual businesses. We should put gr...


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Interoperability is the Answer to Scaling Up E-mobility in Africa: What the Continent Can Learn from the EU and Indi...

Electric mobility in Africa is an emerging but highly fragmented market, defined by uneven policies, diverse vehicle types and limited scale. As a sector that spans hardware, software and commercial layers, e-mobility requires solutions that address all three dimensions simultaneously. Interoperability has therefore become a critical enabler — one capable of stitching togethe...


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Scaling Through Consortiums: Five Lessons We’ve Learned About Growing Impact Collectively

For social enterprises, NGOs and other impact-focused organisations, consortiums are rarely the easy path to scale. They tend to be slower, more complex and harder to manage than working with a single organisation. But consortiums can also produce solutions that are broader in perspective, stronger in legitimacy and more resilient in practice.

Take the


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NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025: Announcing the Winners of Our Annual Contest

We tallied the votes in NextBillion’s “Most Influential Articles of the Year” contest — an annual tradition since 2012.

The three winners are listed below.

Congratulations to these four guest writers, whose insights have cl...


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