/ Intelligence Report

Field notes on African IP.

Working perspectives on policy shifts, registration strategy, and the commercial IP decisions African founders face, written for operators, not legal teams.

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5 May 2026Featured, Paper

Nakamba, Kewhyeni — SSRN

Africa's Next Billion-Dollar Assets Will Not Be Land or Oil, They Will Be Ideas

A Continent Known for Its Wealth, Yet Rarely Its Ownership.

Citation: Nakamba, Kewhyeni. "Africa's Next Billion-Dollar Assets Will Not Be Land or Oil, They Will Be Ideas." SSRN, 2026.

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/ Upcoming

Coming soon01, Analysis

The Pan-African Trademark Protocol: What Founders Need to Know

Why a single filing strategy rarely works across ARIPO, OAPI, and national registries, and how to sequence them.

Coming soon02, Strategy

Open Source vs. Proprietary: Choosing the Right Path for Seed Stage

A practical decision tree for founders weighing licence choices before the first technical hire lands.

Coming soon03, Field note

What Goes in the IP Section of a Seed Data Room

The five documents investors actually open, and the order to organise them in for a clean diligence run.

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