African financial markets are posting their strongest average scores in ten years, and that alone is worth pausing on. A decade is a long time, and reaching this kind of peak signals real momentum across the continent's exchanges and investment corridors.
But the headline number does not tell the whole story. Liquidity constraints remain a stubborn challenge, and they have a way of quietly capping what strong performance can actually deliver for investors and everyday savers alike.
The tension between impressive market scores and thin trading volumes is one the continent's financial community will have to sit with for now. Watch this space closely, because how African markets resolve that gap could shape the next decade even more than this one.
Originally published by BusinessDay.