Manufacturing just overtook raw commodities as Africa's trade story. Most investors have not noticed yet.

For years, intra-African trade has been dominated by raw commodities moving between countries. That is shifting. Manufacturing and agri-food processing are now projected to make up roughly half of intra-African trade flows this year, up from under half the year before.That is a structural change, not a seasonal one. It signals value being added on the continent rather than raw material simply passing through it, and it changes where the smart capital should be looking.Most global trade media is still reporting Africa through the old lens of extraction. The people getting ahead of this are the ones tracking implementation, not headlines.The full weekly signal, written for the international investor and partner who wants to understand African markets before they show up in the mainstream financial press, lives inside GROWTH. ...