Africa’s Missing Middle
Africa has more international bandwidth than at any point in its history. New submarine cables have expanded capacity, created new landing points and improved the continent’s access to global internet…
Africa has more international bandwidth than at any point in its history. New submarine cables have expanded capacity, created new landing points and improved the continent’s access to global internet…
Africa's digital infrastructure agenda is no longer about cable landings alone, but the resilient corridors, exchanges and inland routes that turn bandwidth into a continental market. Africa's submarine cable boom…
Africa’s digital economy increasingly depends on infrastructure most people never see: the submarine cables lying across ocean floors, carrying the data that powers cloud services, payments, government systems, streaming platforms,…
Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from experimentation to core infrastructure, bringing with it new demands on data centers worldwide. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI conversation…
For many African enterprises, the fear of being visible on the internet has become a barrier to becoming properly routed on the internet. Banks, universities, government agencies, hospitals, fintech platforms…
African companies have spent years digitising the visible parts of their operations: mobile apps, customer portals, cloud workloads, payment systems, data links, cybersecurity teams and digital-transformation road maps. African financial…
Africa’s digital infrastructure story has often been told through the language of connectivity: more subsea cables, more fiber routes, more mobile broadband, more internet exchange points, and more last-mile access.…
Nigeria’s ability to participate meaningfully in the artificial intelligence economy will depend on the strength of its digital infrastructure. Beyond algorithms and applications, AI at scale requires resilient data centers,…
Africa’s internet story is usually told through visible infrastructure: new subsea cables, more terrestrial fiber, expanding data centers, Internet Exchange Points, cloud points of presence and rising broadband adoption. By…
Nigeria’s new data localization directive for the financial services sector could become a major catalyst for local cloud and data center demand, but its success will depend on how quickly…