Business Logistics Guides: How businesses plan, move, and track goods, people, and payments — covering freight, invoicing, cross-border operations, and supply chain decisions.
A Johannesburg e-hailing driver checked his fuel budget on 30 June the way he does every month end. He had read that government was fully reinstating the fuel levy from 1 July, so he braced for a higher bill at the pump. Instead, when he filled up on 2 July, 95 unleaded cost him less … Read more
At Balogun Market in Lagos, a trader restocks her stall every Friday. She buys a carton of soap, sells every bar by Sunday, and hands her supplier roughly the same amount of cash the following week. On paper she is busy. In her pocket, she often cannot say whether she made money or simply moved … Read more
At Owino Market in Kampala, a secondhand clothes trader sends her supplier in Jinja UGX 100,000 for a fresh bale of stock. She dials *165#, confirms the transfer, and pays a UGX 1,000 fee. An hour later she needs cash for the day’s running costs and withdraws UGX 50,000 from an agent two stalls down. … Read more
At Makola Market in Accra, a fabric trader closes out a Friday afternoon by sending her supplier in Kumasi GH₵1,200 for the next batch of prints. She dials *170#, confirms the transfer, and only notices the GH₵7.50 fee once the SMS lands. Minutes later a regular customer asks to be paid back GH₵40 in cash. … Read more
On May 24, 2026, a Boeing 777 carrying 284 passengers left Lagos and landed in Bridgetown, Barbados. It was the first scheduled commercial flight ever to connect West Africa directly to the Caribbean. Air Peace, Nigeria’s largest carrier, now operates the route twice monthly, continuing on to Antigua before returning. The airline has also acquired … Read more
Importing From China to Kenya: 6 Business Ideas for 2026 A trader on River Road in Nairobi CBD unpacks a fresh carton of phone chargers and earphones fresh off the SGR from Mombasa. She paid a supplier in Guangzhou in dollars, paid Kenya Revenue Authority in shillings, and now she is about to find out … Read more
Walk through Half Way Tree or Coronation Market on any weekday and the same story repeats at stall after stall: goods bought wholesale, marked up, and sold to people who need them today, not in six weeks. That rhythm has only gotten more urgent since Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica as a Category 5 storm … Read more
Water Hyacinth Packaging: Africa’s Green Wealth Opportunity A fisherman on the Kisumu shoreline of Lake Victoria pushes his boat through a green mat so thick it looks like solid ground. That mat is water hyacinth, and it is choking his catch, tearing his nets, and breeding the mosquitoes that keep his village sick. To him … Read more
A mama mboga at Toi Market in Nairobi sells vegetables all morning, and every sale lands on her Till as a Buy Goods payment, free, the way it is supposed to be. By early afternoon she needs cash to pay her wholesaler, so she walks two stalls down and withdraws KES 8,000 from an M-Pesa … Read more
The Numbers That Nobody Wants to Discuss Open a browser in Lagos, Nairobi, or Johannesburg during Premier League weekend, and the digital landscape tells a story nobody in the development community wants to tell: sports betting platforms are moving more money than most African banks. Betway, Hollywoodbets, and a dozen regional competitors command more daily … Read more