Welcome to The Africa Report 2020/21, Knight Frank’s unique guide to real estate market performance and opportunities in the world’s most exciting continent. This year’s report comes exactly a decade since the publication of the inaugural edition. Those ten years have been witness to exciting

Africa is one of the world’s fastest growing consumer markets and is projected to boast 1.7 billion consumers by 2030. A growing African middle class has often been signalled as a significant source of future global consumer spending growth. However, the commodity price shock of

The African Development Bank has estimated that the financing gap for African infrastructure falls between $130 and $170 billion a year. Investment in infrastructure lies at the heart of many of the challenges facing Africa’s development and growth agenda. New road and rail links will

With rising protectionism and escalating trade wars across Western markets, Africa offers a different story to investors. In their fourth edition of the Risk-Reward Index for Africa, Control Risks moves beyond the headlines to draw out the underlying patterns of change and structural risk factors.

On a continent where 76% of the workforce is engaged in informal labour, the question of how to inject capital into businesses overlooked by traditional banking services has weighed on the minds of developers and financiers alike for decades. If opportunities are to be created

Over 600 million Africans do not have access to electricity. This energy deficit will need to be urgently addressed if the continent is to fully reap the benefits of industrialisation and technological innovation. However, Africa also has huge energy potential. The continent boasts some of

The UN General Assembly has declared 2016-2025 the Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa. Yet, Africa’s manufacturing value added accounted for only 1.6% of the global total in 2014. The continent continues to lag behind other regions and adds value to only 14% of its