/// 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.
The Bank the Poor Built
Equity Bank — EP01
In 1984, a tiny building society in Nairobi was on the verge of collapse. Today, Equity Bank serves over 19 million customers across 6 African countries.
The Department That Banked a Country
Safaricom — EP02
Before M-Pesa, before the IPO, before 40 million subscribers — Safaricom was a government department that nobody believed in.
Coming Soon
M-Pesa — EP03
A $400 million product born from a failed microfinance experiment. The story of how mobile money changed Africa.
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.