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…
Nigeria’s Sovereign Cloud test will shape Africa’s digital path
Nigeria is attempting something few African countries have managed successfully: turning digital sovereignty from a political slogan into a market-shaping instrument. Through its National Sovereign Cloud Initiative (NSCI), led by…
Africa’s connectivity boom is creating a new dependence: Compute
Africa is laying the digital equivalent of highways at record speed—and importing almost everything that matters once the traffic arrives. The continent’s connectivity story has turned a corner. Subsea systems…
Africa’s digital ambitions to face execution test in 2026
Africa’s digital economy is advancing rapidly. Governments across the continent are rolling out broadband strategies, announcing data-center pipelines, refining cloud policies, and, increasingly, publishing artificial-intelligence road maps. Yet a persistent…
The Distressed Continent
Africa has worn many labels over the past two decades. In 2000, The Economist called it “The Hopeless Continent.” A decade later came the reversal: “Africa Rising.” By 2013, optimism…
Why Nigeria’s terrorism framework must account for infrastructure sabotage.
Nigeria’s digital economy briefly vanished. Businesses could not transact. Workers could not connect. Households lost access to the online services that increasingly substitute for failing physical infrastructure. Across Lagos and…
AI infrastructure boom to trigger ‘Unprecedented Surge’ in project financing – report.
AI-driven data center demand is poised to reshape global project financing, according to new research from corporate services firm CSC, which warns of a $1.5 trillion funding gap emerging as…
Report highlights deep funding gap as AI infrastructure costs surge.
OpenAI will require roughly $207 billion in additional financing by 2030 to meet its long-term data-center and hardware commitments, according to new analysis from HSBC’s US software and services team.…
The 2Africa cable is complete – now comes the hard part: fixing the middle and last mile.
When Meta and its consortium partners confirmed the core completion of the 2Africa subsea cable system, the announcement reverberated far beyond the engineering world. At 45,000 kilometers (inclusive of the…