The paradox of pressure, and learnings for Africa
When the Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk after it refused to support military uses such as autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance, the move was meant to hurt the company.…
Small by design: the structural reason African businesses don’t scale
Across Africa, entrepreneurship is not scarce. Sub-Saharan Africa alone has roughly 44 million micro, small and medium enterprises, the vast majority of them micro-businesses, and SMEs account for about 95%…
Kenya has been a coastal gateway; can it be Africa’s digital gateway?
For more than a century, Kenya has been East Africa’s physical gateway. Cargo entering the Port of Mombasa has supplied markets across Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic…
Africa’s global compute share has dropped 20% in two years despite infrastructure expansion
Africa’s digital infrastructure footprint is expanding rapidly, yet its position in the global compute landscape is weakening. Over the past two years, the continent’s share of global compute capacity has…
Governments must step up to anchor demand in Africa’s compute markets
Across much of Africa, the constraint on data center and cloud expansion is no longer connectivity. It is demand. The continent’s digital infrastructure base is larger than it has ever…
The Hyperscaler test: what countries must do to attract global cloud regions
Hyperscalers are buying certainty, not land, and countries that understand this are winning the cloud-region race The contest to host global cloud regions is often described as a technology race.…
Kenya has built the infrastructure. Will the hyperscalers come?
Kenya’s digital infrastructure story has quietly entered a new phase. Over the past decade, the country has invested heavily in the foundations of the digital economy - subsea connectivity, terrestrial…
The war no one wants – and why its a ladder for Africa’s digital infrastructure
The conflict between the United States and Iran is widely described as the war no one wants. Neither side benefits from a prolonged confrontation, and the broader global economy certainly…
Africa’s hidden internet problem
Africa’s digital economy is growing fast. Bandwidth is expanding, data centers are being commissioned, cloud platforms are multiplying, and digital payments now move trillions of dollars across the continent each…
Africa’s Data Center Paradox: Rising Demand, Lagging Capacity
In the heart of Lagos, a Nigerian fintech company clears millions of transactions each day. The customers are African. The merchants are African. The capital circulates within African banks. But…
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