Financing Africa's Next Growth Cycle

Africa doesn't lack infrastructure projects. It needs more bankable ones.Hosted by Energy News Network (ENN) in partnership with The Electricity Hub, Let's Talk Energy continues its series recorded live at the Africa Energy Forum 2026 in Cape Town with Moshood Abolade, Investment Director at Africa50.With Africa50 having made investment commitments across 33 projects in 32 countries, Abolade argues that Africa needs to move beyond financing infrastructure project by project towards programmatic, ecosystem-led investment capable of attracting institutional and private capital at scale.From transmission PPPs and project bankability to gas, renewables, critical minerals and the continent's growing data centre opportunity, the conversation asks what it will take to finance Africa's industrial ambitions, and where the next major opportunities for infrastructure capital could emerge.