Reporting from Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cairo, Accra and across the continent.
Est. 2022
01Field Report · Lagos
When the sun disappears over Lagos, another city emerges. Behind closed storefronts and fading daylight, thousands of workers begin their shifts — repairing machines, preparing meals, moving goods and keeping Africa’s commercial capital in motion until morning.
02Industry · Nairobi
A new generation of engineers wants East Africa to manufacture the systems powering its electric buses, motorcycles and miniature grids.
03Culture · Accra
In Accra, a living collection of garments, photographs and oral histories is giving designers a richer vocabulary for the future.
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Stories worth your timeTrade · Casablanca
Morocco is betting on ports, rail and financial services to connect African producers with each other before they look overseas.
05Music Business · London / Lagos
Lawyers, data analysts and rights managers are building the less glamorous infrastructure of Africa’s most visible cultural export.
06Climate · Kigali
Rwanda’s capital is treating marshland as working urban infrastructure—part park, part flood defense and part public classroom.
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