Single Digital Issue: December 2025-January 2026

As global capital tightens, African multilateral development finance institutions (DFIs) are turning inward, mobilizing domestic savings, rethinking industrial policy, and building a new ecosystem of patient, locally-anchored capital. In the latest issue of FORBES AFRICA, we unpack the conversations happening across Africa’s financial capitals–with several DFI CEOs, Managing Directors and Presidents–on how to fund the continent’s next growth chapter without leaning too heavily on the world’s tightening purse strings. Dr George Elombi, Afreximbank’s recently-appointed President is ready to guide the Cairo-based multilateral lender through its next decade: a period he believes must define Africa’s industrial rebirth. He speaks on everything, from processing what Africa produces to the continent’s youth equation and the broader horizon ahead. Also in this issue, from pioneering mobile money adoption to streamlining public services, the tiny, hilly East African nation of Rwanda is taking technological transformation to newer heights. We also take a look the journey of an African fashion garment–from the rich textures found in rural homesteads to the catwalks of global fashion capitals, these garments carry stories of heritage, identity and innovation. We speak to three visionary designers that are redefining modern style—through textiles, silhouettes, and craft—by blending tradition with contemporary expression, and placing African fashion, firmly, on the world stage. Amongst the latest developments in the world of artificial intelligence (AI)–robotic companions and the formation of emotional bonds with AI. The rise in status of the SA20 cricket competition over the past few years is also in the spotlight, along with the G20, which recently took place, for the first time, on African soil, AGOA and the shifting power dynamics in global policy. All this and more in the December 2025/January 2026 issue of FORBES AFRICA. Get your copy today!