<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Africa One]]></title><description><![CDATA[Africa One]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/insights</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:40:39 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.africaonegroup.co/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Who Stole Zobo? Africa Grew It, the World Bottled It, and Nobody Sent the Invoice]]></title><description><![CDATA[**Africa Brew Brief | RIC Brands Intelligence Series** **Case File No. 001: The Great Hibiscus Heist** --- ## Opening the Case File Somewhere in northern Nigeria, a farmer is drying a crimson flower in the sun. A few months later, that same flower turns up in a German tea blend, a Mexican street cart and a London wellness café. It is priced at a premium and wears a brand that has never heard of Kano. No one broke in. No alarm went off. The goods simply left the continent raw, cheap and...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/who-stole-zobo-africa-grew-it-the-world-bottled-it-and-nobody-sent-the-invoice</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad99e694a00d6583889641a</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:33:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_3e50509204084b0194c6f7b5a03f0a27~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Africa Buys Bananas From Ecuador While Its Own Rot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Africa grows roughly 31 million tonnes of bananas a year, ranking among the world's three great banana regions alongside Asia and Latin America. Yet one of the continent's biggest banana buyers fills its markets from the other side of the Atlantic. That buyer is Algeria. In 2017, Ecuador supplied 99% of Algeria's banana imports, worth $62 million. Algeria became so important to Ecuador that it accounts for 70% of Ecuador's banana exports to the African region. Then politics intervened. In...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/why-africa-buys-bananas-from-ecuador-while-its-own-rot</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad84b7196b0208d2cf2bcf2</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:23:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_ce26c915b70443479323932d5294da41~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liquid Gold: How Flavoured Water Became the Soft Drink Industry's Quiet Winner, and Why Africa Should Be Paying Attention]]></title><description><![CDATA[*Africa Brew Brief | Africa One Media* --- Walk down the soft drinks aisle of any UK supermarket and the change is easy to see. Cola and full-sugar fizz now share the shelf with rows of strawberry, lemon-and-lime, cherry and summer-berry waters, most of them sugar-free and many of them premium-priced. What used to be a niche product is now one of the fastest-growing parts of the drinks market. This investigation looks at why this is happening, how much money is involved, who is making it, and...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/liquid-gold-how-flavoured-water-became-the-soft-drink-industry-s-quiet-winner-and-why-africa-shoul</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad30fc0dff5ede2b2d004bf</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:12:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_ecf9c2c0110449929f69d54e82ef39bc~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The £66 Billion Gatekeeper: What Tesco Buys from Africa, and How African Agribusiness Can Win Britain's Biggest Shelf]]></title><description><![CDATA[*An Africa-to-UK trade briefing, October 2026* --- ## 1. The giant: Tesco by the numbers Tesco is the UK's largest supermarket chain by a wide margin, and one of the largest retailers in the world. **Financial year 2025/26 (to 28 February 2026)** - **Group sales:** £66.6bn, up 4.3% at constant exchange rates. Revenue rose 3.3%, held back by a 6.5% fall in fuel sales. - **Adjusted operating profit:** £3,152m, up from £3,128m. - **Statutory operating profit:** £2,985m, up 10.1% from £2,711m. -...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/the-66-billion-gatekeeper-what-tesco-buys-from-africa-and-how-african-agribusiness-can-win-britai</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad06453b65fbf3c2c7b1536</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:33:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_5f84c53675b745908ba5b9c9051204b6~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Africa Isn't Hungry. It Was Made Hungry. Africas Forgotten Crops]]></title><description><![CDATA[Colonialism stole Africa's harvest. Africa's own leaders, donors, brands and dinner tables have kept it stolen. An investigation into the 30,000 crops a continent was taught to forget, and everyone who still profits from the forgetting.* **RIC Brands · Origin Dispatch · Deep Investigation · African Agribusiness · October 2026 · 18 Min Read** --- There is a comfortable story about African hunger, and almost everyone tells it. Europe arrived, imposed cotton and cocoa, and broke a continent's...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/africa-isn-t-hungry-it-was-made-hungry-africas-forgotten-crops</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acf12294e36a97ee9361e51</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:29:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_ccacbf43977f4d3bba4c74bc92e4215a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picked in Uganda, Branded in Kenya, Drunk in Karachi: Who Really Owns Ugandan Tea?]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE TEA THAT FORGOT ITS NAME *An Africa Brew Brief | Africa One Media | October 2026* --- ### The provocations - **Is Uganda a tea nation or just a leaf farm for Mombasa, Karachi and London?** - **Did Museveni kill the industry's best hope when he called a Tea Authority "colonial"?** - **Is the Shs310bn rescue saving farmers or bailing out badly run factories?** - **When farmers uproot tea to plant bananas, is that failure or the smartest decision in the value chain?** --- ### 1. The numbers...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/picked-in-uganda-branded-in-kenya-drunk-in-karachi-who-really-owns-ugandan-tea</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc6ef22a4fcaf142e46db7</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:30:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_8cf708244199486dbf998af93aab6174~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the UK built a £2.5 trillion economy without growing much of anything, and why Africa is still being paid in peanuts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Africa Grows It. Britain Bills It. *Africa Brew Brief | Africa One Media | An investigation by Wilbert Frank Chaniwa* --- ### I. The smell of Bournville The first thing you notice at Bournville is the smell. Before you see the factory, the canal or the purple-painted railings, the air already tastes of warm milk and sugar. It is the scent of one of Britain's most beloved brands. Standing at the gates of the Cadbury factory in Birmingham, I kept asking one question: where is the cocoa from,...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/how-the-uk-built-a-2-5-trillion-economy-without-growing-much-of-anything-and-why-africa-is-still-b</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac9c0a02a4fcaf142e41858</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:40:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_6c86996e3a6346d9b5370e4e44fabaaf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Machine Will See You Now: Coffee Vending's Quiet Revolution, and Why Africa Should Own the Bean, Not Just the Box]]></title><description><![CDATA[*Self-serve coffee has moved from the office corridor to the forecourt, the campus and the shopping-centre atrium. As robots learn latte art and global brands extend their reach through unmanned machines, Africa, which grows some of the world's finest coffee and drinks very little of it, faces a choice: become a market for other people's machines, or build the network that pours its own coffee.* --- ### A latte with no one behind the counter Walk into almost any British petrol station,...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/the-machine-will-see-you-now-coffee-vending-s-quiet-revolution-and-why-africa-should-own-the-bean</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac767388e07a7d3a06d9033</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:57:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_abd242c58cb84155ac961469024ba0bf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Africa Gave the World Palm Oil. Asia Took the Profit. The Diaspora Still Buys It in Unlabelled Jerrycans.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Red palm oil is one of Africa's oldest exports and one of its most under-branded assets. This Brew Brief asks who owns the value, who is missing it, and who will finally build the brand.** --- ## The Brief in 60 Seconds - In 1961, Nigeria produced over 45% of the world's palm oil. Today Africa produces less than 5% of global supply despite holding about 20% of the world's suitable land. - Indonesia and Malaysia together supply more than 80% of a global palm oil market valued at roughly USD...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/africa-gave-the-world-palm-oil-asia-took-the-profit-the-diaspora-still-buys-it-in-unlabelled-jerry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac61ecd835890a6b31c8bc9</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:31:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_14fc9690ccf14129959b0b08f31b66ca~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uganda's Fruit Factories: Five Plants, One Lesson]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Africa Brew Brief investigation into Uganda's fruit-processing drive: who paid, what was built, what actually gets processed, and why the private plant is the one that is growing.* --- Every year in Teso, West Nile and Acholi, tonnes of mangoes fall and rot under the trees. In Yumbe, during the years the local factory stood finished but idle, a farmer with about 60 mango trees said he earned very little because a sack of mangoes sold for only Shs10,000. Meanwhile, Uganda imports mango...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/uganda-s-fruit-factories-five-plants-one-lesson</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac4f246b4558a33c348d408</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:10:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_1e4b3b048e2e42fdb455e5a4aae7401a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Africa Grows It, Vietnam Brews It, Nestlé Sells It Back: The Instant Coffee Scandal Africa Keeps Funding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Africa Brew Brief | Africa One Media Africa's biggest instant coffee factory runs on Asian beans. When Nestlé reopened its expanded Estcourt plant in South Africa, every coffee bean going into Ricoffy, the country's best-selling instant coffee, came from Vietnam because local production was too small. At the time, that plant was Nestlé's largest of its kind anywhere in the world. So the continent that gave the world coffee buys its morning cup back in a jar. The jar is filled with someone...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/africa-grows-it-vietnam-brews-it-nestl%C3%A9-sells-it-back-the-instant-coffee-scandal-africa-keeps-fun</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac3d249835890a6b31c3ee5</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:42:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_d312edfd25ed40a79651aeef60e3fa61~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pearl's Brew: How Uganda Turned Coffee Policy into a $2.4 Billion Export Engine, and Why the Next Battle Is Value Addition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, Uganda's coffee story was one of steady but modest growth. Today it is Africa's benchmark. In the year ending April 2026, Uganda exported 8.8 million 60-kg bags of coffee, earning US$2.4 billion (UGX 8.8 trillion), compared with 6.9 million bags worth US$1.8 billion the year before, a rise of 28 percent in quantity and 36 percent in value. The longer view is more striking. The country earned US$1.4 billion from coffee exports in the 2023/24 crop year, against US$550 million...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/the-pearl-s-brew-how-uganda-turned-coffee-policy-into-a-2-4-billion-export-engine-and-why-the-nex</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac1f31f104b5b8f71a7e093</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:39:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_eda1489cbd7243c6a272784f406439f1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wycliffe Sande Story : The Coffee Picker Who Put Uganda on Britain's Shelves]]></title><description><![CDATA[How a boy who picked coffee to pay for school built Blue Turaco, a farmer-owned Ugandan coffee brand now sold in Britain's leading supermarkets, and why his story matters ahead of Origin Cup Uganda. --- **The boy in the coffee fields** Some founders find their industry. Wycliffe Sande's industry found him first, when he was eight years old. Growing up in Uganda, his world was turned upside down at eight by the death of his father. He started working in coffee to support himself and his...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/the-wycliffe-sande-story-the-coffee-picker-who-put-uganda-on-britain-s-shelves</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac09bc1104b5b8f71a7c04c</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:18:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_a81b917646f646e5a8437c9d9dd3c9aa~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[October Belongs to Uganda]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three rooms, two cities, one thesis. Some countries ask for attention. Uganda is now earning it on the numbers. This October, Uganda's case is being made in three rooms. In Kampala, the country shows itself to the region at its biggest trade fair. In London, its diplomats raise a glass to 64 years of independence. At month's end, its coffee economy meets the people who finance it, buy it and move it, in a room built for exactly that purpose. Each event says the same thing in a different way:...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/october-belongs-to-uganda</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6abf4bec719e5b4d639c2126</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:21:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_6f647ed64d354e6b93e7a0673101c1a2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Customs Bribe Is the Tariff: How Africa's Borders Quietly Tax the Continent Out of Its Own Free Trade Area]]></title><description><![CDATA[We signed the largest free trade agreement in the world and then left the toll booths standing. African governments have spent a decade cutting tariffs on paper while their own border officials, clearing agents and queue-jumping cartels collect a private tariff that no treaty has touched. This is the silent tax on African trade, and every farmer, trader and consumer on the continent is paying it.** --- ## The queue that moves one kilometre a day Start at Beitbridge, the only official crossing...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/the-customs-bribe-is-the-tariff-how-africa-s-borders-quietly-tax-the-continent-out-of-its-own-free</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6abe2d027908d26646f10c45</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:04:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_37baf500c58a4d668fce2f3288d1b30e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dairibord Zimbabwe: The Rise, the Fall, and the Rise Again]]></title><description><![CDATA[How a colonial-era marketing board became Zimbabwe's biggest dairy house, nearly lost its supply base, and is now drawing multinational capital* --- ## Introduction: A carton of milk as an economic signal In Zimbabwe, a carton of Dairibord milk shows the state of the economy. Its price reflects the exchange rate. Whether it is on the shelf depends on the state of the farms, and its packaging on access to foreign currency. The company's seventy-four-year history follows the country's own path:...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/dairibord-zimbabwe-the-rise-the-fall-and-the-rise-again</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6abcc4d3daba984fa7f9e8be</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:19:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_a208694f5b174e038c4370ed904e4f25~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kenya Agribusiness Investment Case: An $8.4 Billion Opportunity With Duty-Free Access to China, the US and Africa Until 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[Agriculture is the largest part of Kenya's economy. It made up 23.2 percent of GDP in 2025, and the sector's output rose from KSh3.64 trillion to KSh4.07 trillion in a single year. Yet less than 5 percent of arable land is irrigated, up to 40 percent of some harvests is lost after harvest, and only 16 percent of output is processed locally. Kenya already grows the product, but it captures too little of the value. That gap is where investors can earn returns. The government has put a price on...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/the-kenya-agribusiness-investment-case-an-8-4-billion-opportunity-with-duty-free-access-to-china</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6abb58e916ab36a014d16732</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:27:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_57345a7ee7424f5eb71f506b0e05eff4~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What European Coffee Roasters and Importers Are Really Looking For in an African Coffee Producer: A 10-Point Guide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Africa grows some of the most celebrated coffee on earth. Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, Kenyan AA, Rwandan Bourbon, Burundian naturals, Ugandan Arabica from Mount Elgon and Rwenzori. The names alone open doors in cupping rooms from London to Berlin to Oslo. Yet many African producers, cooperatives and exporters tell the same story. The samples go out, the feedback is warm, and then nothing happens. No contract, or one contract and no repeat order. Over the past months, through the Origin Cup Series...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/what-european-coffee-roasters-and-importers-are-really-looking-for-in-an-african-coffee-producer-a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ab5307a81487682c1ad4c14</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:27:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_2f9ccb53e4a146219acae77a1adc711f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow the Coffee Money: A Field Guide to Financing Africa's Coffee Farmers and Agribusinesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Africa grows some of the most celebrated coffee on earth, from the washed Yirgacheffes of Ethiopia to the bright SL28s of Nyeri and the rising Robustas of the Lake Victoria basin. Yet the continent still captures a small share of the value its coffee creates, and one reason sits in plain sight: the people who grow the beans cannot get the money they need to grow more of them, process them better, or sell them on better terms. This brief sets out the main types of funding now available to...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/follow-the-coffee-money-a-field-guide-to-financing-africa-s-coffee-farmers-and-agribusinesses</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ab3b26c5e083ad3da2acb09</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:15:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_94bae7aad4314eba8ede143dcdc5537f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Date Paradox: Africa Grows the World's Dates but Sells a Fraction of the Value]]></title><description><![CDATA[Africa sits at the centre of the world's date orchard. Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Sudan grow millions of tonnes a year, yet the largest export earners are a Tunisian oasis exporter, an Israeli Medjool industry and a Gulf re-export hub. The gap between what Africa grows and what Africa earns is the story of this brief. --- ### THE NUMBERS AT A GLANCE | Indicator | Figure | |---|---| | Global production (2023) | 9.82 million tonnes | | Global market value (2025) | USD 32.7...]]></description><link>https://www.africaonegroup.co/post/the-date-paradox-africa-grows-the-world-s-dates-but-sells-a-fraction-of-the-value</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aafe008b2fda686223d6ea6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:37:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d244cb_3231738055a34c8fb564616813d42fc5~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wilbert Frank Chaniwa</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>