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Capital entering Africa needs one thing first: someone who already knows the counterparty.

Tawira Africa Connect originates, screens and structures investment across eight African markets and twenty-one sectors. We work with institutional funds, development finance institutions, corporates and family offices that have identified Africa as a market and now need the specifics.

Discuss a mandate Read the market notes

The headline continental numbers tell only part of the story. The underlying numbers are where investment opportunities become more specific.

Where the opportunity sits

Three figures that show where the opportunity and market gaps sit

$70bn

FDI into Africa, 2025

Down 26% on 2024, and still the third-highest level since 1990, roughly a third above the continent’s long-run average. Global FDI rose 6% to $1.6tn over the same period.

UNCTAD World Investment Report, 2026

Fintech FDI projects recorded in Africa, 2024

Against 206 in developing Asia over the same period.

UNCTAD World Investment Report, 2025

Africa’s share of global data centre investment, 2024

The continent hosts 223 data centres across 38 countries, representing less than 0.02% of the global data-centre estate.

UNCTAD World Investment Report, 2025

Capital formation has not kept pace with usage. Sub-Saharan Africa processes two thirds of global mobile money value and attracted 18 fintech FDI projects in 2024, against 206 in developing Asia. That gap is where our work begins.

Markets

Eight markets, covered in depth rather than simply listed

Each market note sets out what is growing, where the risks sit, and what execution looks like on the ground.

All eight market notes

The figures that matter

Mining & natural resources

African share of global platinum group metal production ~80%
DRC share of global mined cobalt ~76%
African share of global lithium reserves 1.6%

Reserves and production are routinely conflated in critical-minerals commentary. The distinction changes which countries matter and which investment theses warrant closer attention.

USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, 2024

Africa accounts for about 80% of global platinum group metal production, while the DRC alone accounts for about 76% of mined cobalt, but only 1.6% of global lithium reserves (USGS, 2024).

What the desk does here

Sectors

Twenty-one sectors under coverage

Coverage means we maintain a view, a counterparty list and active market conversations.

Insights

FDI

Start with the specifics

Tell us the mandate, its stage and the timing. We will come back with the relevant market, sector and next steps.

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