I attended this event on 09/10/2025 at ME Hotel on The Strand organised in London by Nigerian Law firm Stren & Blan Partners with the assistance Africa Legal. It was a productive afternoon of learning and networking, and highlighted several insights which have helped me plan my visit to East Africa in January 2026.
Key Takeaways:
> Investment capital for telecoms, industrial and energy infrastructure needs to be de-risked.
> Inflation across the African continent is easing, helping to drive this de-risking, as well as encouraging regulatory reform and tech infrastructure resilience.
> Investor confidence is therefore rising in select African economies.
> Capital, compliance and connectivity are the main market trends.
Currency flows are improving.
> Liberalisation of markets across Africa is taking placewhich is speeding up electrification and reliable sources of energy. This is helping the mining sector get power to mines in remote areas in countries like Zambia and Tanzania.
> Initiatives such as the cross-border energy producers’alliance, Southern Africa Power Pool (SAPP) is aggregating energy markets making sure that energy gets to industry wherever it is required.
However, barriers to growth remain:
> Lack of harmonised cross-border regulations and regional rules.
> Domestic legislation often gets in the way of trade.
> Liquidity is still an issue, and more deregulation needs to occur inside individual states.
> More energy transmission infrastructure must be built.
Next Steps:
I will be visiting Tanzania and Zambia for three weeks in January 2026, along with colleagues from @Commcorde who are based in Dar Es Salaam.
We will be meeting with representatives from the telecoms, legal, mining, and government sectors to highlight the role strategic communications and crisis response campaigns can play in building credibility across African markets. We can help to open up economies and drive more investment into the key areas of capital, compliance and connectivity, while protecting individual and organisational reputations.
My thanks for interesting conversations and informed debate go to the speakers, hosts, organisers and other attendees I met at this excellent event:
@Andrew Skipper
@Paul Arkwright
@Ozioma Agu
@Bernard Oundo
@Lucy Kavanagh
@Amanda Burge
@Kit Smith
@Scott Cowan
@Wendy Bampton
@Africa Legal
@Stren & Blan Partners
I will be visiting Tanzania and Zambia for three weeks inJanuary 2026, along with colleagues from @Commcorde who are based in Dar Es
Salaam.
We will be meeting with representatives from the telecoms,legal, mining and government sectors to highlight the role strategic
communications and crisis response campaigns can play in overcoming these
barriers. We can help to open up economies and drive more investment into the
key areas of capital, compliance and connectivity, while protecting individual
and organisation reputations. If you would like to meet up either formally or
just for an informal chat, do let me know via DM.
My thanks for interesting conversations and informed debatego to the speakers, hosts, organisers and other attendees I met at this
excellent event:
@Andrew Skipper
@Paul Arkwright
@Ozioma Agu
@Bernard Oundo
@Lucy Kavanagh
@Amanda Burge
@Kit Smith
@Scott Cowan
@Wendy Bampton
@Africa Legal
@Stren & Blan Partners