The trade press for the people who move Africa's goods
Africa Procurement and Supply Chain Mag covers the policy, technology, deals and people shaping procurement, logistics and trade across the continent — and hosts the awards programmes that recognise the work.
Practitioner-led, from within the community
Procurement & Supply Chain Africa Magazine is the continent's first dedicated, practitioner-led publication bringing together the people, policy, technology, and data shaping how Africa sources, moves, and delivers. We cover the full breadth of the African procurement and supply chain ecosystem — from public sector procurement reform and e-government systems, to cold chain logistics, digital freight, fleet management, sustainable sourcing, and the technology transforming how African organisations operate.
We are not a publication written about African supply chains from the outside. We are built from within the community — by practitioners, for practitioners — and every edition reflects the realities, ambitions, and achievements of the professionals who keep Africa's economies moving, 24 hours a day, in real time.
An InstinctWave publication, Procurement & Supply Chain Africa Magazine is produced in both print and digital formats, reaching procurement officers, supply chain directors, logistics leaders, regulators, technology innovators, and public sector professionals across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and beyond.
Editorial Values
Evidence over assertion.
Every claim we publish is sourced, cited, and verified. We do not publish supply chain success stories that cannot be substantiated. If the numbers are not on the record, they are not in the magazine.
Practitioner voice over observer commentary.
The people writing for and in this magazine are the people living these supply chain realities — not journalists covering the sector from the outside. We believe the most powerful supply chain intelligence comes from within the profession.
Candour over celebration.
We celebrate achievement genuinely and enthusiastically. But we also ask the uncomfortable questions — about the gap between local content policy and local content practice, about the supply chain disruptions that cost organisations billions but rarely make the news, and about the procurement decisions that shaped national outcomes for better or worse.
Africa for Africa.
We are a publication grounded in African realities, written for African audiences, and committed to the long-term development of the African procurement and supply chain profession. We do not import frameworks from Europe or North America and apply them wholesale to contexts they were not designed for. We report on what is working — and what is not — in the markets our readers actually operate in.
Inclusivity and representation.
We are committed to representing the full diversity of Africa's procurement and supply chain community — across gender, geography, sector, and career stage. Women in supply chain leadership, public sector practitioners, emerging professionals, and organisations outside Nigeria's major cities are not afterthoughts in our editorial agenda. They are central to it.