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The Missing Layer Between African Music and Capital
African music already reaches a global audience. Turning the resulting royalty cash flows into assets investors can repeatedly find, verify and buy is a…
 • Lumi Mustapha
Nigeria Is Still Paying for Electricity Used Years Ago
Inside the ₦729 billion bond being used to settle a decade of power-sector debt, and the problem it cannot solve.
 • Lumi Mustapha
Dangote Isn’t Raising $14 Billion in Its IPO. That’s the Point
The IPO raises $1.6 billion toward a $14.3 billion expansion. The other $10.2 billion is the real story
 • Lumi Mustapha
Nigeria Is Fighting Over the Wrong Naira
State revenue rose 211% since 2022. Dependence on Abuja rose with it. The incentive nobody’s tried changing yet.
 • Lumi Mustapha
The Missing Step Between Cultural Value and Institutional Capital
The $117.6 million OVO transaction shows how cultural IP becomes something institutional capital can actually own, underwrite and enforce.
 • Lumi Mustapha
The Market Woman’s Balance Sheet
How two decades of an informal trader’s cash flow becomes something institutional capital can price
 • Lumi Mustapha
OVERINSURED
When the record deal costs more than the risk it protects
 • Lumi Mustapha
The L.U.M.I. Brief
The L.U.M.I. Brief
Strategic intelligence for fund managers, founders, and operators in African and frontier markets. Capital. Structure. Power
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