The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has launched the second season of its documentary series Impact Stories, debuting six new films on March 12 that expand the series’ reach beyond Africa to embrace the wider Global Africa narrative — including stories from the Caribbean.
Produced in partnership with Create, CNN International Commercial’s branded content studio, Season Two takes viewers on location to Grenada, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Nigeria. Moving beyond the balance sheet, each episode offers an intimate look at the human and economic transformation driven by Afreximbank’s strategic investments — capturing the entrepreneurs, communities, and national economies being reshaped by its partnerships.
The season covers a compelling range of stories. In Grenada, cameras follow the expansion of the Silversands Resort, a flagship project symbolising deeper Africa-Caribbean cooperation. In Lagos, the spotlight falls on the Dangote Refinery — a development that speaks to the scale of ambition driving Africa’s economic future. The series also travels to Aba, Nigeria, where the Geometric Power project is bringing reliable electricity to a once-thriving industrial hub, and to Ghana, where it traces cocoa’s journey from farm to global market through Afreximbank’s partnership with Plot Enterprise.
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The creative economy features prominently too. One episode follows Ghanaian fashion label Boyedoe as it prepares for its debut at Paris Fashion Week, backed by Afreximbank’s Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) programme. The season closes in Abidjan, where the renovation of the iconic Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium illustrates how infrastructure investment ripples outward — delivering cultural, social, and economic dividends to surrounding communities.
Together, the six episodes make a broader argument: that the building blocks for African economic integration are not a distant aspiration but a present reality. By putting faces and places to its financing, Afreximbank is making the case that strategic investment is already turning opportunity into tangible prosperity — and inspiring businesses and regions to deepen the intra-African trade and cross-border collaboration needed to sustain that momentum.
All six episodes are now streaming on Afreximbank TV. The series will also be promoted in high impact formats across CNN.com and in a long-form TV campaign across CNN International.