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Ghana

Ghana admits 100% foreign ownership of companies but no foreign freehold in land. The binding constraints are the GIPC capital threshold and the stool/family land title chain.

Nigeria

Nigeria permits full foreign ownership of companies, but no private party owns land outright: every acquisition is a right of occupancy that needs the Governor's consent to transfer.

Kenya

Kenya is one of the fastest jurisdictions on the continent to incorporate, but non-citizens are constitutionally limited to 99-year leases and are effectively barred from agricultural land.

South Africa

South Africa is the only major African market where a foreign buyer can take registered freehold title in their own name — the constraints are exchange control and B-BBEE, not ownership.

Egypt

Egypt centralises company formation in GAFI's one-stop shop and offers strong statutory investment guarantees, but foreign ownership of real estate is capped by asset class and location.

Rwanda

Rwanda offers the fastest and cleanest formation process on the continent and a fully digital land register — the trade-off is that all land is state-owned and held on lease.

Senegal

Senegal combines one of West Africa's fastest single windows with a titled-land system in Dakar — but most rural land sits in the domaine national and cannot be bought.

Benin

Benin has digitised company creation and consolidated land administration under one agency; rural land acquisition by foreigners is restricted.

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a leading West African gold producer with an OHADA single window; security conditions and recent resource-nationalist reforms are the binding constraints.

Mali

Mali offers OHADA incorporation through API-Mali, but the 2023 mining code, security conditions and political transition require careful structuring.

Angola

Angola has removed mandatory local partnership for most sectors and runs a one-stop company registry, but land is state property held through surface rights and FX repatriation depends on BNA procedures.

Tanzania

Tanzania offers strong investor guarantees through TIC, but all land is public land vested in the President — foreign investors obtain derivative rights, not ownership.