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Everyone wants a trade publication to tell their version of the story.

As digital mercantilism enters maturity, Africa is being invited to sit with the comity of nations, but it could also quickly end up on the menu.

Africa's innovation ecosystem is not as old as Egyptian hieroglyphs, but the continent's journey to digital innovation holds valid lessons for today.

It is the Great Sobering. The realisation of how little we understand (and pay attention to understanding) what scaling ventures beyond VC means.

African startups cannot rely on “huge market”, unmet needs and sob stories to attract capital. Four questions to help shape how we think about exits.

Everything has a social cost. A digital economy is no different. The cost balance may be positive or negative—usually, it is a mixed bag.

African states lack the infrastructure, ambition and vision needed to create a digital economy. Global goodwill is not an alternative.

A digital economy is not just economic activities that take place online. It is also how digital channels reshape entire societies.

Africa’s need for a do-over in how it treats data centres is not just about data sovereignty, localisation, or the physical vs cloud debate.

Startups in North Africa are uniquely positioned to expand south and east—if they lean into their advantages.