Category: Diving Deeper

Ensuring the future: Delivering professionalism and building capital
Today, Kenya’s College of Insurance and Africa Ahead are proud to publish a new report as the College enters a new phase of growth, building on a deca [...]

Kenya’s microinsurance drive reflects Africa’s push to close protection gap
Kenya’s insurance sector is increasingly turning its attention to the informal economy and underserved small businesses, signalling a shift across [...]

South Africa’s extensive autumn flooding analysed by JBA
Successive low-pressure systems brought destructive flooding, landslides and damaging winds to large parts of South Africa during May 2026, causing fa [...]

PODCAST: Is the Middle East going to become the hub for Africa?
In this episode of the Africa Ascending Bites podcast series, Udai Patel of Afro-Asian Insurance Services, and Liz Booth of Africa Ahead, discuss [...]

Africa’s re/insurers at the crossroads of geopolitics and the AI revolution
Africa’s insurers and reinsurers will play a significant role in enabling the reindustrialisation that is taking place as today’s apparently cyclical [...]

Why technology alone cannot fix Uganda’s low insurance penetration
The insurance offer had appeared on Ogwal Geoffrey Blair’s phone so many times that he no longer noticed it. Every day, the 33-year-old passionate cyc [...]

PODCAST: AIO conference timing perfect as sector faces challenges
The Gulf war and flooding across the continent have given the African insurance sector plenty to work on in the first half of 2026, whic [...]

PODCAST: Is the insurance market really managing the AI transition safely?
As part of the Africa Ascending Bites podcast series, Udai Patel, of Afro-Asian Insurance Services, and Liz Booth, of Africa Ahead, debate whether [...]

Tailored products key to unlocking microinsurance uptake among small businesses, study finds
Aggrey Mulumbi, managing director of KCB Bancassurance Intermediary, Dr. Caleb Odhiambo Onjure and Professor Jane Muriithi continue with the discussio [...]

African cities use nature to fight floods and climate change
Marc Manyifika, lead, urban resilience, Africa, Eden Takele, engagement & communications specialist, climate programme and WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, WRI Africa, Meghan Stromberg, urban resilience programme associate, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities; Alemakef Tassew, urban development project specialist, WRI Africa, and Adane Kebede, nature-based solution specialist, all at the World Resources Institute May 21, 2026
From Kinshasa to Dire Dawa, cities across Africa are discovering that wetlands, trees and parks could be their strongest defence against climate chang [...]
