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Mission 300 at halfway: 50m connections, one hard problem

The World Bank and AfDB have connected over 50 million people in two years. Reaching 300 million depends on utilities that can bill.

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3 Min
By: Tom Kayo
Analysis United States Angola Kenya Nigeria Governance Policy Capital Geopolitics

The compact era: how the US rewired African health aid

Thirty-one bilateral MOUs replaced a grant architecture. The new model demands co- investment, and in some cases data.

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2 Min
By: Tom Kayo
Analysis Nigeria Angola Energy Trade

Dangote's 96% Quarter: The Refinery That Rewired West Africa's Fuel Trade

Nigeria's petrol import bill has collapsed, its refinery is selling jet fuel into a Hormuz-shocked Europe, and Angola is racing to escape the same crude-out, fuel-in trap. The revolution is real — but it is currently defended by import bans, not won on price.

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8 Min
By: Tom Kayo
Explainer Nigeria Kenya Technology Policy

Africa's Digital Stack: Fintech Leadership, the AI Scramble, and the Data-Sovereignty Dilemma

Africa leads the world in mobile money and is racing to build an AI economy. But with less than 2% of global compute on the continent, the defining battle is over who controls African data — and where the value lands.

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5 Min
By: Tom Kayo
Analysis Nigeria Diaspora Technology Capital

African Culture as Global Infrastructure: Music, Film, Fashion, and the Diaspora Economy

Afrobeats fills global charts, Nollywood is a production powerhouse, and African design shapes runways. Culture is now one of the continent's most powerful exports — but the platforms that distribute it, and capture its value, are mostly owned elsewhere.

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4 Min
By: Tom Kayo

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