An investor deciding where to deploy capital across African real estate is really answering a question that has no single correct answer, because the continent’s five largest property markets each reward a genuinely different kind of investor. Nigeria offers scale and speed but demands tolerance for legal friction. Kenya offers structure and regional prestige but limits foreign ownership by law….

Among the 251 plots of land the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission forfeited from convicted criminals between October 2023 and July 2026, each one has a story that follows a recognizable shape: someone paid for land they believed was legitimately theirs, and it wasn’t. Multiply that pattern across a country where a civil society organization felt compelled to formally petition…