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The Financing Africa’s Future podcast examines the forces shaping Africa’s financial markets and their role in driving sustainable development. Each episode features in-depth conversations with experts and practitioners, exploring both opportunities and constraints in areas such as climate finance, capital markets, early-stage finance, adaptation and resilience and development impact.
With new episodes released every week, the series provides policymakers, investors, and development partners with informed perspectives on the evolving financial landscape and its implications for Africa’s future.
About FSD Africa:
FSD Africa is a specialist development agency working to build and strengthen financial markets across sub-Saharan Africa. By addressing systemic challenges and unlocking new opportunities, FSD Africa seeks to make finance work for the continent’s future, supporting resilience, sustainability and inclusive growth.
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Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
Zambia’s capital markets are showing renewed strength, but what is really driving the momentum and can it be sustained?
In this episode of Financing Africa’s Future, Nicholas Kabaso, CEO of the Lusaka Securities Exchange, shares a grounded perspective on the forces shaping the market today. From a strong equity rally and improving macroeconomic conditions to growing investor confidence following debt restructuring, the conversation explores what is working and where the deeper constraints remain.
The episode also examines the persistent challenges facing small and mid-sized enterprises in accessing capital, the role of market structure and incentives and how African exchanges can better connect capital to productive sectors of the economy. A concise and insightful discussion for anyone interested in the future of capital markets in Africa.
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