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How infrastructure in Africa gets financed: what lenders look for, where deals stall, and how the risks particular to the region are managed.

#01 · Energy & power

The offtaker question: why the buyer’s credit decides most power deals

An independent power project is only as financeable as the promise to pay for its electricity. Where that promise comes from a stretched state utility, the structure around it does the work.

29 September 2026 · 3 min read

Read — The offtaker question: why the buyer’s credit decides most power deals

#02 · For sponsors

What makes an African infrastructure project bankable

Bankability is not a verdict on whether a project is good. It is a judgement on whether its risks have been identified, allocated and documented well enough that someone will lend against them.

29 September 2026 · 4 min read

Read — What makes an African infrastructure project bankable

#03 · Risk

Dollar debt, local revenue: living with currency risk in project finance

Most of the long-term capital available to African infrastructure is priced in hard currency, while most of its customers pay in local currency. How a project handles that mismatch can matter more than any other assumption in the model.

29 September 2026 · 3 min read

Read — Dollar debt, local revenue: living with currency risk in project finance

#04 · Structuring

How development finance shapes the capital stack

Development finance institutions are rarely the only capital in an African infrastructure deal, but they are often the reason the others can participate. Understanding what they need is part of raising money from everyone else.

29 September 2026 · 3 min read

Read — How development finance shapes the capital stack

#05 · Standards

Environmental and social standards are a financing tool, not a formality

For international lenders, the way a project manages its impact on land, water, communities and workers is part of its credit. Sponsors who treat it that way raise capital faster.

29 September 2026 · 2 min read

Read — Environmental and social standards are a financing tool, not a formality

Insights are general information about the market, not investment advice or a recommendation about any opportunity.

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