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One of the interesting things I worked on this year for @Susinsight : susinsight.com/ask
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#WhatsTrending: As of September 9, 2026, Côte d’Ivoire’s mandatory cocoa traceability system faces early delays as buyers, cooperatives, and farmers adjust to electronic producer cards. The rollout comes ahead of EU deforestation rules, while farmers receive CFA 1,200 per kilogram and exporters warn of possible October–November supply disruptions.
Read more: susinsight.com/cote-divoire-…
🔍: Tomi Abe: @mrtomiabe, Adetoro Adetayo: @toroadetayo
🎨: Tomi Abe: @mrtomiabe
#CocoaTraceability #CoteDIvoire #DeforestationRules #SupplyChain #CocoaCompliance #Susinsight
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Been exploring how AI could be used as a practical tool for building better products around knowledge, and I'm excited to share a new feature we recently introduced to @Susinsight:
✨Ask Susinsight: Our AI Research Assistant
Ask any question about sustainability and development in Africa. Answers are drawn from Susinsight's published research and reporting.
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If Africa’s development is part of your work, study, or everyday concern, this update is for you.
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#Susinsight #AskSusinsight #AIResearch #AfricaInsights #ResearchAssistant #ContextMatters
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I'd recommend two pieces we've published @Susinsight in the past around this subject 👇🏽
I have a genuine concern.
Why are Nigerian startup founders building countless payment apps, betting platforms, and delivery services, yet hardly anyone is building serious solutions to insecurity, hunger, poverty, and failing education?
These are the problems affecting hundreds of millions of people.
What exactly is stopping our brightest minds from working on them?
Is it that investors won’t fund such ideas?
Or have we become more interested in convenience than solving the problems holding the country back?
Nigeria doesn’t need another payment app as much as it needs solutions that make people safer, put food on tables, create opportunities, and help children learn.
Money circles under trees before it reaches startup decks, and many African farmers still trust that system more. Agritech startups raised more than $1.56 billion across Africa, yet recent collapses exposed how quickly outside funding can disappear.
ROSCAs and cooperatives keep financing seeds, tractors, and school fees because members know one another and share the risk together.
Founders, investors, and policymakers may need to rethink how agricultural finance works before another funding cycle leaves rural communities stranded.
Read the latest 'market watch' insight to learn more: susinsight.com/africa-agrite…
🎨: Tomi Abe: @mrtomiabe
#RuralFinance #AgriculturalFinance #Cooperatives #AgritechFunding #InformalFinance #Susinsight
A drum once used to send messages across lagoons sat silent in a Paris museum for over a century. According to Ezinne Okoroafor, France returned the Djidji Ayôkwé to Côte d’Ivoire after years of negotiation, ending a removal that began in 1916.
This matters because restitution is shifting from legal wins to real cultural control. The drum stretches over three meters and once coordinated entire communities. Now, Ebrié leaders want use, not display.
You start to wonder, who decides what heritage means after return? Read the full story: susinsight.com/cote-divoire-…
✍🏾 Researcher/Writer - Ezinne Okoroafor
🔍 Editors - Adetoro Adetayo: @toroadetayo, Tomi Abe: @mrtomiabe
🎨 Design/Photo Collage - Tomi Abe: @mrtomiabe
#CulturalRestitution #HeritageReturn #DjidjiAyôkwé #ColonialLegacy #CulturalOwnership #Susinsight
Dear Reader,
Over three days in Gran Canaria, the Global Sustainable Islands Summit 2026 (GSIS 2026) by Island Innovation brought together island governments, utilities, investors, and practitioners to talk about one thing: how to make sustainable development work in island contexts.
As a media partner, we’ve been following the summit closely, and here are a few threads that stood out for us, especially for African and coastal readers.
Read here: susinsight.substack.com/p/wh…
Susinsight is 3! 🥳
Three years ago, we started with a simple question about how media could serve Africa’s future more honestly, and somehow that question pulled us into more than 150 stories, a growing contributor network, and audiences we never planned for.
This inside update shares what changed behind the scenes and how we’re rethinking funding. Take a few minutes to see what we’ve been building with you in mind.
open.substack.com/pub/susins…
#susinsight #sustainability #africa #africandevelopment #sustainabledevelopment #impactmedia
A film shot in one of Namibia’s most remote regions is raising a tougher question about money, ownership, and who actually builds a film industry. Adetola Adeyayo reports that ‘Skeleton Coast’ brought together Nigerian and Namibian studios, private funding, and a cross-border cast to test a different production model.
Namibia’s entire cinema market is projected at about $1.7 million, which makes a $1 million film a real gamble. If you’re interested in film, business, or policy, you should pay attention, as this goes beyond entertainment.
Can local industries grow without waiting for outside backing?
Read the full piece and decide: susinsight.com/namibia-film-…
✍🏾 Researcher/Writer - Adetola Adetayo: @toladetayo
🔍 Editors - Adetoro Adetayo: @toroadetayo, Tomi Abe: @mrtomiabe
🎨 Design/Photo Collage - Tomi Abe: @mrtomiabe
#AfricanCinema #SkeletonCoast #NamibianFilm #FilmIndustry #CrossBorderProduction #Susinsight
Trust, not maps, decides who gets a vaccine in Northern Nigeria.
Naomi A. Frank-Opigo writes that GIS mapping tools now track zero-dose children and guide vaccination outreach across Northern Nigeria, but long-standing fears from polio boycotts, past medical trials, and COVID rumors still shape acceptance.
Nigeria still records 2.3 million zero-dose children, mostly in the North, showing why vaccine uptake remains uneven and why planners rely on both data and community trust.
Read the full article to understand how that gap plays out: susinsight.com/northern-nige…
✍🏾 Researcher/Writer - Naomi A. Frank-Opigo
🔍 Editors - Adetoro Adetayo: @toroadetayo, Tomi Abe: @mrtomiabe
🎨 Design/Photo Illustration - Tomi Abe: @mrtomiabe
#VaccineTrust #ZeroDoseChildren #NorthernNigeria #GISMapping #VaccineHesitancy #Susinsight
#WhatsTrending: On April 18, 2026, IMF engagement across Africa rose near $70 billion since 2020, with about 20 countries in active programmes, including Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, and Zambia. Middle East conflict, aid cuts, and rising inflation pushed demand higher during the IMF Spring Meetings, while debt pressures reached $95 billion in repayments.
Read more: susinsight.com/africa-imf-de…
🔍: Tomi Abe: @mrtomiabe, Adetoro Adetayo: @toroadetayo
🎨: Tomi Abe: @mrtomiabe
#IMFAfrica #DebtCrisis #AfricaDebt #IMFPrograms #DebtPressure #Susinsight
"Code doesn’t just execute logic; it carries intent and consequences", Adetumilara Adetayo explains. Her work moves between building secure systems and writing about Africa’s digital economy, where data, infrastructure, and everyday life quietly intersect.
She breaks down how hidden systems shape choices, who benefits, and who gets left out. If you’ve ever wondered what sits behind the apps you use daily, this conversation will change how you see them. Read the full interview:
open.substack.com/pub/susins…
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#AdetumilaraAdetayo #AfricaDigitalEconomy #CodeAndSociety #HiddenSystems #DigitalJustice #Susinsight
