Dependence on the dollar is redefining economic resilience in Africa.

As access to foreign currency tightens, local businesses are confronting mounting import costs, rising inflation, and deepening currency devaluation.

These pressures aren’t the result of weak fundamentals — they’re the outcome of structural imbalance.
Dollar shortages are escalating, local currencies are under siege.
Some businesses are adapting, others are at a standstill.

What happens when a currency you don’t control determines your survival?