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Ce que deux ans d’antenne finissent par apprendre.
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Fifty licences for one market
Flutterwave holds over fifty licences to sell the same service across some thirty countries. It is not a trophy. It is a bill.
Essai 32 min read Economy · African integration
Lire l’analyseThe number is the least interesting part
Forty minutes on air on Africa Pulse, taking apart INTERPOL’s latest continental assessment: AI is behind 55% of Africa’s reported cybercrime, and losses have doubled in two years. Those figures travel well. What they don’t capture is tempo.
Décryptage 3 min read Security
Lire l’analyseThey did not hack his account. They invented the person.
An actor shows up to casting with everything: the photo, the references, the agency that represents him, even past credits that check out online. The casting director ticks the boxes, signs the contract. The actor never existed. That is exactly what some scammers do today to open an account, secure a loan, land a job.
Décryptage 2 min read Security
Lire l’analyseThe ship of Theseus and tradition
Someone once told me that wax print is not African. That is literally true — and yet nobody can seriously argue that a pagne is not African today.
Décryptage 4 min read Culture
Lire l’analyseAfrica speaks two thousand languages. Its digital world speaks five.
Africa’s digital divide has long been measured in coverage rates and gigabyte prices. The next one will be measured in languages.
Essai 10 min read Languages
Lire l’analyseWhat is said in the booth
In a bilingual negotiation, the interpreter is the only person in the room who understands everything. They are also the only one whose identity nobody checks.
Essai 11 min read Security
Lire l’analyseThe national data centre is not enough
Every sovereign data centre announcement is hailed as a victory. Digital sovereignty is not measured in square metres of clean room.
Décryptage 9 min read Infrastructure
Lire l’analyseArchives
Le corpus
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- 01Economy · Entrepreneurship · Artificial intelligenceThe price of entrySeries · 7 episodes · 30 min readRead analysis
- 02Economy · PaymentsFifteen dinars withdrawn for every dinar spentSeries · 7 episodes · 58 min readRead analysis
- 03Economy · African integrationFifty licences for one marketEssays · 32 min readRead analysis
- 04WorkLeaving at fourSeries · 7 episodes · 45 min readRead analysis
- 05SecurityThe number is the least interesting partBriefings · 3 min readRead analysis
- 06SecurityThey did not hack his account. They invented the person.Briefings · 2 min readRead analysis
- 07Digital economyWhy low-competition ecosystems discourage innovationSeries · 7 episodes · 68 min readRead analysis
- 08CultureThe ship of Theseus and traditionBriefings · 4 min readRead analysis
- 09Digital economyThe invisible cost of fragmentationSeries · 7 episodes · 49 min readRead analysis
- 10LanguagesAfrica speaks two thousand languages. Its digital world speaks five.Essays · 10 min readRead analysis
- 11EducationThe shrinking listSeries · 7 episodes · 52 min readRead analysis
- 12SecurityWhat is said in the boothEssays · 11 min readRead analysis
- 13InfrastructureThe national data centre is not enoughBriefings · 9 min readRead analysis
- 14LanguagesUmuzi — Language WeekSeries · 7 episodes · 14 min readRead analysis
- 15SocietyThe time it takes, and the time we don't haveSeries · 7 episodes · 60 min readRead analysis
- 16PhilosophyThe difference between embellishing and fleeingSeries · 7 episodes · 43 min readRead analysis
- 17PhilosophyThe destiny you carry alone, and the one you carry togetherSeries · 7 episodes · 40 min readRead analysis
- 18SovereigntyAfrica Tech — Sovereignty across seven frontsSeries · 7 episodes · 15 min readRead analysis
Méthode
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