By Juwon Akin-Olotu Africa’s agricultural economy does not need faster unicorns. It needs a fundamentally different animal. There is a particular kind of hubris that travels...
By John Dale The promise of agricultural technology often comes wrapped in seductive rhetoric: disintermediation, direct-to-consumer models, blockchain traceability that “cuts out the middleman.” Yet this...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo When Airtel Africa announced its partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX this week, it marked more than another corporate deal in the telecommunications...
By Juwon Akin-Olotu Walk into any international development conference in Europe or the United States, and you will encounter the same carefully curated imagery projected onto...
By Curtis Akunfu “A farmer with a hoe cannot compete with a farmer driving a combine harvester.“ This simple truth reverberates across the farmlands of the...
By Agnes Chikukwa Hove When people think of Africa’s corporate powerhouses, they often picture telecom giants, sprawling banks, or resource-rich mining conglomerates. But here is a...
By Farhia Noor “When the young carry the drum, the village must dance.” Pan-Africanism is no longer confined to speeches at summit halls or inked declarations....
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo Mobile phone use across Africa is surging at an unprecedented pace. Whether in bustling urban centers or deep within rural communities –...
By Ajay Wasserman While global investors funnel billions into Asia and Latin America, one continent remains conspicuously overlooked – despite housing 17 percent of the world’s...
