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There is a particular kind of optimism you feel when you drive toward a new bridge before dawn. The road is still quiet. A few traders are setting up by the sho…

Africa rewards the impatient observer with a lesson in humility. You land in Lagos expecting one story and get five before lunch. You arrive in Kigali thinking …

Africa rarely moves in a straight line. It moves in bursts, through ports and dry ports, over rail spurs and fiber backbones, across customs posts that work bea…

The fastest way to misunderstand Africa is to flatten it. That happens every day in global media. Fifty-four countries, more than a billion people, thousands of…

There is a particular kind of reporting that only makes sense when your boots are dusty, your notebook is full of crossed-out figures, and every tidy theory has…

There is a particular kind of newsroom ambition that shows itself not through noise, but through range. A publication steps onto difficult ground, moves between…

Africa’s energy story is often told in the wrong order. Too many observers start with scarcity, move quickly to crisis, and end with a tidy prescription importe…

There is a particular kind of mistake that keeps repeating itself in Africa-focused business, policy, philanthropy, and investment circles. It starts with confi…