Know what moves Africa.
MAINLAND is a video-first African media organisation built to explain the forces shaping the continent. We report on technology, business, money, power, politics, culture, travel and history.
Our journalism starts with a simple idea: Knowing what happened is not enough. We want to understand why it happened, who made it happen, who benefits, who pays, what the evidence shows and what it means for the people affected by it.
MAINLAND produces original reporting, explainers, interviews, documentaries, investigations, data journalism, field reporting and visual stories. We are starting from Nigeria while building journalism for audiences across Africa and around the world.
MAINLAND exists to make important African stories understandable, accessible and difficult to ignore. We report beyond announcements, press releases, surface headlines, and social-media outrage. We seek the systems underneath the story.
SEVEN EDITORIAL DESKS SHAPING AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE
The technology changing African businesses, governments, economies and everyday life. Coverage includes AI, telecom, consumer tech, fintech, digital platforms, infrastructure, and policy. We report beyond funding announcements.
The businesses and industries moving Africa. Coverage includes retail, manufacturing, banking, hospitality, energy, real estate, and informal commerce. Interested in how businesses actually operate.
How money moves through African economies. Coverage includes payments, inflation, interest rates, consumer economics, personal finance, markets, wealth, currencies, debt, investment, and cost of living.
The institutions and decisions that shape people’s lives. Coverage includes government, politics, policy, regulation, public spending, corporate influence, and accountability. Scrutinising power without political bias.
How Africans live, create and influence the world. Coverage includes music, film, fashion, food, language, internet culture, identity, entertainment, art, and social movements.
Africa as experienced through its cities, movement and places. Coverage includes aviation, hotels, rail, restaurants, tourism, transport economics, and neighbourhood stories.
Understanding the past that created the present. Coverage includes political history, business history, cities, infrastructure, institutions, colonial impact, and historical personalities with evidence-based rigor.
MAINLAND journalism is research-driven, evidence-led, independent, curious, fair, accessible, and visual. We distinguish Fact, Analysis, Opinion, Allegation, and Advertisement. We attribute information, show where data originates, and seek right of reply.
If you believe there is something MAINLAND should investigate, report or understand, contact our newsroom desk.
business@mainland.africa