
Supply chain sector breaks new ground with founding of Africa-wide body
Newly formed African Supply Chain Confederation aims to unify and elevate supply chain standards and networks across the continent.
MARKETING MAGAZINES
By our African Marketing Confederation News Team | 2024
Issue 1 2024 of Strategic Marketing for Africa, the magazine for deep-thinking industry professionals, provides in-depth insights.
The latest issue of Strategic Marketing for Africa, the quarterly magazine of the African Marketing Confederation (AMC), is now available online via the AMC website. This issue remains current until the end of June 2024.
Issue 1 2024 (and the 11th magazine since the revival of the AMC as the pan-African marketing body) is packed with marketing-related news, in-depth features, and thought-leadership content from across Africa. Here are some of the highlights of the latest issue.
Marketers embrace the BAL
Our cover story on sports marketing analyses the rise in popularity of the Basketball Africa League and the slick marketing that accompanies it. Is it proving to be a slam dunk for corporate sponsors and brands who want to be along for the ride?
Issue 1 2024 of Strategic Marketing for Africa
Nostalgia in marketing
Do you embrace brands that make you feel connected to your roots and hark back to simpler times? A great many consumers do, so marketers are seeing the opportunity and playing on nostalgic memories of the ‘good old days’.
Marketing as a force for good
Encouraging over-consumption and over-spending – to the detriment of all – are accusations frequently levelled at the marketing profession. So, are we in denial or becoming a force for good? African and international marketers and academics give their opinions.
Rise of visual and voice search
The once-simple world of “Google it” is morphing into something far more complex, but potentially rewarding, for Africa’s marketers. We examine how visual and voice search are set to change the game.
The opportunity in African Beauty
Brands that recognise indigenous African beauty practices, and utilise natural ingredients and techniques, have an advantage in this burgeoning market. An industry expert looks at how the African Beauty trend is creating opportunities for market players.
You will find these stories, and much more, in the latest Strategic Marketing for Africa – the voice of African marketing and the official publication of the African Marketing Confederation (AMC). Read it online or download it here.
A Print Edition of the latest magazine will be available shortly.

Newly formed African Supply Chain Confederation aims to unify and elevate supply chain standards and networks across the continent.

App was relaunched in April 2025 after three years of development and is claimed to have boosted on-demand grocery retail turnover by 40%.

Le Club Marketing Avis+ joins the African Marketing Confederation as its first Associate Member, strengthening pan-regional collaboration and marketing leadership across Africa.

The recent G.O.A.T. Marketers’ Fireplace event organised by the Uganda Marketers Society did more than just celebrate excellence.

Confederation has fast-paced online Express Courses you can complete in a week, to in-depth studies taking up to 10 months.

Study finds that firms cannot credibly signal their product quality simply through different social media marketing spending levels.

Tiger Brands retains its iconic roaring tiger emblem, but with a more modern geometric representation and an updated font.

La Confédération se réjouit de la représentation accrue des pays francophones, alors qu’elle s’efforce de devenir une organisation véritablement panafricaine.

Confederation thrilled to have greater representation from Francophone countries as it strives to be a truly Africa-wide organisation.

Six-country study finds that younger, more optimistic, consumers will drive a retail revolution across the continent.

Choice Hotels International is opening three Kenyan properties in early 2026 and plans at least 15 more in sub-Saharan Africa.
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