/// AFRICAN STORIES. TOLD DIFFERENTLY.

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Africa

A media and intelligence house telling the stories behind Africa's most important companies. Home of Asili Africa and Dalali Wire.

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Series

Asili
Africa

Where it all began.

Long-form origin documentaries on Africa’s most important companies. How they started, what nearly killed them, and where they’re going.

Dalali
Wire

Follow the deal.

Short-form business intelligence. The deals, the funding, the moves shaping Africa’s economy — analysed weekly.

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Latest Episodes

Recent releases

Greenspoon

Greenspoon

The Greenspoon Story In a Nairobi kitchen, in two thousand and sixteen, a young mother named Juliet Kennedy was weaning her first...
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Quickmart

Quickmart

The Quickmart Story At the end of January, two thousand and twenty, a court-appointed administrator walked into a Nakumatt supermarket in a...
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Pan Paper

Pan Paper

The Pan Paper Story On the twenty seventh of January, two thousand and nine, an officer of Kenya Power and Lighting Company...
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Listen Now

Available on Spotify

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About

Built in Nairobi.
Heard everywhere.

A Nexus Works media venture.

From research to publish — engineered to compound.

We produce documentary-quality content about African companies because these stories deserve to be told with the same rigour and craft as any story from anywhere in the world.