Category: Diving Deeper
PODCAST: Is the Middle East going to become the hub for Africa?
In this, the eighth episode of the Africa Ascending Bites podcast series, Udai Patel of Afro-Asian Insurance Services, and Liz Booth of Africa Ahe [...]
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
From Kinshasa to Dire Dawa, cities across Africa are discovering that wetlands, trees and parks could be their strongest defence against climate chang [...]
VIDEO: Actuaries play key role in creating sustainable insurers
Yeside Kazeem, founder of the African Actuarial Development Academy, explores the critical role of actuaries in the insurance industry, particularly [...]
Driving sustainable growth by embedding ESG principles in the insurance value chain
As global attention on sustainability intensifies, insurance companies are under growing pressure to demonstrate how they incorporate environmenta [...]
What happens after a building collapse: the South African process
The recent and deeply tragic building collapses in George, Verulam, and, most recently, Ormonde, have brought renewed attention to a difficult questio [...]