Every ownership move
Acquisitions, stake sales, catalogue and rights deals across fintech, music, sport, media, FMCG — the moment they break, named and sourced.
MONOKROMATIK · OWNERSHIP ALERTS
Who’s buying Africa — before the market prices it.
The deal-intelligence feed for African brand ownership. Every acquisition, catalogue sale and rights deal that moves value — each with the one read a data room doesn’t contain: does the upside stay on the continent, or get exported?
WHAT LANDS IN YOUR INBOX
The value-capture read
Not just the number — the verdict a bank won’t give you: exported, retained or contested, and where the margin actually lands.
Filtered to your lens
By sector, geography and verdict — so an investor, corp-dev team or rights-holder sees only the moves that matter to them.
A SAMPLE OF THE FEED
Recent moves, read the way you’d want them.
14 deals tracked · 10 exported · 2 retained, across 7 sectors.
Aug 2026FintechValue exported
Allawee Paystack
Nigeria · Undisclosed
Paystack's third Nigerian-fintech tuck-in in 18 months (after Ladder MFB and Brass). The card-issuer Allawee folds into a Stripe subsidiary — another homegrown brand absorbed into a foreign-owned rail.
Aug 2026BankingMixed
NCBA Group (66%) Nedbank
Kenya · ~$855m
The marquee cross-border bank deal of 2026 — and a rare intra-African one. Value moves from Kenyan to South African hands: consolidation on the continent, but not local ownership retained.
Jun 2026TelecomsMixed
Safaricom (15%, to 55% control) Vodacom
Kenya · ~$2.1bn
Vodacom bought 15% of Safaricom from the Kenyan government for ~$2.1bn to reach 55% control. Kenya's crown jewel and the M-Pesa rail now sit under Vodacom (ultimately Vodafone) — though the state keeps 20% and a hand on the chair.
Jan 2026FintechValue exported
Ladder MFB Paystack
Nigeria · Undisclosed
A licence play: Paystack absorbs a microfinance bank to move into banking. The Ladder brand disappears into the acquirer.
The free tracker shows the record; Alerts brings the next move to you first — and the narrative read lives in The Megabrand Exit Ledger.
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Investors & corp-dev
Screening African consumer, culture and fintech — see the ownership moves and the capture risk before the deal memo.
Rights-holders & founders
Watch your category’s value chain — who’s consolidating, who’s selling, and where the leaks are opening.
Agencies & strategists
Brief clients on who really owns the brands they want to work with, and which way the category is tilting.
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