The prospective public listing of the Dangote Refinery has reignited an urgent debate over wealth creation, corporate ownership, and the future maturity of African financial markets. In Nigeria, where economic…
Look around the world today, and you will see that one of the defining challenges of modern governance is not just the ability of states to make laws, but their…
The US ride-hailing pioneer’s departure after 12 years exposes the unyielding macroeconomic friction facing digital platforms in Africa’s largest consumer market. Uber’s decision to terminate its Nigerian operations on September…
When we evaluate global development, we often fixate on gross domestic product, trade volumes, or infrastructure spending. But there is a far more fundamental metric of human progress: life expectancy.…
Whenever we analyze the rapid transformations taking place across Africa’s booming economies, we often focus on digital infrastructure, capital flows, or demographic trends. But a quieter, equally decisive shift is…
In April 2024, when temperatures in South Sudan spiked to a searing 45°C (113°F), 17-year-old Siama missed two weeks of school. Inside her classroom, where air conditioning was a non-existent…
Put two world maps side by side and ask a child which continent looks bigger. On one, Greenland appears almost as large as Africa. On the other, Africa stretches across…
When developing democracies struggle with institutional legitimacy, they increasingly turn to technological solutions. The rationale is elegant in its simplicity: human beings are partisan, corruptible, and inefficient; algorithms and digital…
When we look at the escalating crisis in Nigeria today, we are witnessing a textbook failure of global governance. There is a comfortable narrative that circulates in Western diplomatic circles:…
When we look at how the international community responds to human suffering, we often like to believe that values human rights, self-determination, the rule of law drive foreign policy. But…