Month: March 2026

Ghana’s Cocoa Reckoning March 2026 In 1906 a Basel missionary named Josef Mohr sat in the Gold Coast and wrote a report dripping with omens. Cocoa was a blessing, he allowed. But watching greed bloom alongside the pods, forests felled, and children pledged as collateral, he could only sigh. His...

1. A Chiefly Banker moves in to corner GoldBod financing deal The Chairman of LVSafrica is a traditional chief, Chair of state-owned enterprises, and the decades-long former CEO of a major multinational bank in Africa. While many of us were shouting ourselves hoarse about GoldBod’s losses and whether GoldBod could...

Gas, Ghosts, and the Art of Surviving-to-Win in a Katanomic Market On 12 March 2026, the President of Ghana stood on the edge of a South Korean shipyard and commissioned a gas Nigerian vessel. Pan-Africanism notwithstanding, this is not a regular occurrence, I assure you. The HD Hyundai Heavy Industries...

Gas, Ghosts, and the Art of Surviving-long-enough-to-win in a Katanomic Market On 12 March 2026, the President of Ghana stood on the edge of a South Korean shipyard and commissioned a Nigerian vessel. Pan-Africanism notwithstanding, this is not a regular occurrence, I assure you. The HD Hyundai Heavy Industries yard...

Introduction: China edges out the West Just a little over a year ago, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) concluded from its survey of the field that China is ahead of the United States in 90% (57 out of 64) critical technologies which are defining the future of economic power...