About MarketBrief
What MarketBrief covers, who writes it, and the standard every piece is held to.
MarketBrief covers business, money and markets across Africa, with a working assumption that our reader has a decision to make. Not every reader is an investor; most are operators, founders, finance staff and professionals who need to understand a mechanism well enough to act on it.
What we publish
Two things, deliberately.
Coverage of companies, markets, money and the economy, written to explain what a development actually changes rather than to report that it happened.
A reference layer: guides to what things cost, what the rules are, and how to check a claim against a primary source. These are dated and revisited, because a reference page that silently goes stale is worse than no page at all.
Which markets
We concentrate on Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Egypt rather than covering the whole continent thinly. Depth in a small number of markets is what makes genuine cross-market comparison possible, and comparison is where most of the useful information is.
Who writes it
Articles carry the byline MarketBrief Editorial. That is an institutional byline, and we would rather explain it than invent a masthead of names. It means the publication stands behind the piece, that it was checked against the sources cited in it, and that responsibility for any error sits with us rather than being distributed to a name.
As individual contributors join, they will be credited individually with a real profile.
How we handle numbers
Fees, rates and thresholds change, and a stale figure presented with confidence causes real losses. So where a live number cannot be verified from the primary source at the time of writing, we explain the structure instead, name the body that publishes the authoritative figure, and tell you where to check it. You will see this throughout the guides.
Getting in touch
Corrections, questions and story suggestions: editor@marketbrief.africa. Corrections are read first.
If you want to write for us, the submissions page explains what we commission and how pitches are assessed.