The Gulf of Guinea accounts for a large share of the world's maritime kidnappings, more than the waters off Somalia at their peak. Shipowners increasingly hire private armed escorts rather…
Patrice Lumumba governed Congo for seventy days. The sovereignty debt his assassination created has compounded for six decades, and it is still being repaid in cobalt mined for the energy…
Morocco holds the majority of the world's known phosphate rock reserves, the mineral fertiliser agriculture cannot function without. That concentration gives Rabat a form of leverage over global food security…
The African Continental Free Trade Area promised tariff-free trade across fifty-four economies. The technical rules determining which goods actually qualify as African-made are proving complex enough to keep much of…
Moody's, S&P, and Fitch issue the sovereign credit ratings that set the interest rate every African government pays to borrow internationally. None operates a rating desk staffed and headquartered on…
The African Union conceived a continental rapid-reaction force in 2003 to end reliance on foreign intervention. More than twenty years…
Frantz Fanon's radical humanism remains one of the most urgent frameworks for rethinking identity, race, and nationhood in postcolonial Africa…
Kenya's Social Health Authority is not a new insurance scheme. It is a biometric-linked population governance infrastructure whose implications extend…
The Biafran question is not about secession. It is about what Nigeria refuses to become, and the identity crisis at…
Forty-nine African countries now run at least one biometric system and thirty-five use them in elections. The systems are fragmented…
Armed drones now cause the majority of civilian deaths in Sudan's war. The system that puts them on African runways…
The Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, and Namibia hold the cobalt, lithium, and rare earths the energy transition depends on.…
Agenda 2063 is an impressive vision of an integrated, sovereign Africa. What the African Union lacks is a doctrine, an…
Zambia defaulted in 2020 and did not finish restructuring its debt until years later. The delay was not bureaucratic failure.…
BRICS-led de-dollarisation is loosening the dollar's grip on global finance, a daily, invisible tax on African economies for decades. The…
Africa now holds more than $2 trillion in its own pension funds, sovereign pools, and asset managers; the cupboard is…
Synthetic diamonds are collapsing mid-market prices and exposing how Africa was always excluded from the value layers that matter. The…
Nairobi became a global hub for the human labour that makes large AI models usable: labelling data, moderating content, teaching…
Kenya, Ghana, and Uganda built mobile money systems the rest of the world still studies. A payment crossing a neighbouring…
Satellite internet reaches villages fibre and cell towers never will. It also bypasses the licensing, ownership, and tax structures African…
Data centres are rising across Johannesburg, Nairobi, and Lagos, marketed as digital sovereignty. But the buildings are not the asset.…
