Moïse B. Selph

ANALYSE

Ce que deux ans d’antenne finissent par apprendre.

Un espace pour reprendre les faits, les raccorder aux expériences qu’ils cachent et en tirer une question qui mérite plus qu’un commentaire à chaud.

À la une

The price of entry

What artificial intelligence changes about the cost of becoming a company: a seven-chapter series from the experience of an entrepreneur without capital.

Série · 7 épisodes 30 min read Economy · Entrepreneurship · Artificial intelligence

Lire l’analyse

Fifteen dinars withdrawn for every dinar spent

In Algeria in 2025, fifteen times more money was withdrawn from cash machines than spent electronically with merchants.

Série · 7 épisodes 58 min read Economy · Payments

Lire l’analyse

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’analyse

Œuvres en plusieurs temps

Séries

Des raisonnements qui demandent de la durée, et des épisodes à lire dans l’ordre ou au point où la question vous rejoint.

01

The price of entry

What artificial intelligence changes about the cost of becoming a company: a seven-chapter series from the experience of an entrepreneur without capital.

Série · 7 épisodes 30 min read Economy · Entrepreneurship · Artificial intelligence

Lire l’analyse

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

02

Fifteen dinars withdrawn for every dinar spent

In Algeria in 2025, fifteen times more money was withdrawn from cash machines than spent electronically with merchants.

Série · 7 épisodes 58 min read Economy · Payments

Lire l’analyse

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

03

Leaving at four

A chief financial officer told me he was going to pick up his daughter from school for the first time in six years, and that he owed it to a machine. I found the story beautiful. Then I looked at who in his department had disappeared so that this hour could exist. Seven episodes.

Série · 7 épisodes 45 min read Work

Lire l’analyse

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

04

Why low-competition ecosystems discourage innovation

Entrepreneurial torpor is usually explained by fear, mistrust, culture. But a variable that accounts for everything predicts nothing. Fear is not a character trait: it is a price.

Série · 7 épisodes 68 min read Digital economy

Lire l’analyse

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

05

The invisible cost of fragmentation

Four African countries captured 72 % of the $4.1 billion raised by the continent’s startups in 2025. The explanation that comes to mind first rests on a currency. It does not survive the facts.

Série · 7 épisodes 49 min read Digital economy

Lire l’analyse

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

06

The shrinking list

I published a piece that contradicted itself: it argued for assessing what machines cannot do, and reported the objection that dismantles it. Seven parts to settle that debt.

Série · 7 épisodes 52 min read Education

Lire l’analyse

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

07

Umuzi — Language Week

Seven days, seven essays on African languages as living heritage. Umuzi follows five axes — vitality, reach, influence and crossroads, written heritage, modern presence — and rejects both the folklorising gaze and the single verdict.

Série · 7 épisodes 14 min read Languages

Lire l’analyse

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

08

The time it takes, and the time we don't have

A viral video about the average age of millionaires claims you're not behind. I fact-checked its five claims. Two hold up, two are exaggerated, one has no source. But the real question runs deeper: does time always work in your favour? Seven episodes.

Série · 7 épisodes 60 min read Society

Lire l’analyse

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

09

The difference between embellishing and fleeing

Romanticizing your life — is it self-deception? A video cites Nietzsche to argue it's not. I checked his most famous quote — it doesn't even come from a published book. Seven episodes on amor fati, becoming the poet of your own existence, and the fine line between meaning-making and avoidance.

Série · 7 épisodes 43 min read Philosophy

Lire l’analyse

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

10

The destiny you carry alone, and the one you carry together

My previous Nietzsche series treated meaning-making as an individual affair. A reader asked: what if that assumption itself isn't universal? Seven episodes confronting amor fati with Bantu thought, through Tempels, Kagame, Fu-Kiau, and Sony Labou Tansi.

Série · 7 épisodes 40 min read Philosophy

Lire l’analyse

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

11

Africa Tech — Sovereignty across seven fronts

Seven days, seven essays on African technological sovereignty: submarine cables, satellite connectivity, digital currency, platform work and regulation. No front resolves on its own.

Série · 7 épisodes 15 min read Sovereignty

Lire l’analyse

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

Textes autonomes

Essais

Des textes qui s’arrêtent quand l’idée est suffisamment établie.

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’analyse

The 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’analyse

They 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’analyse

The 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’analyse

Africa 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’analyse

What 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’analyse

The 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’analyse

Collections

Champs d’enquête

CybersecurityThe number is the least interesting part · They did not hack his account. They invented the person.3 textes ↗Digital sovereigntyThe national data centre is not enough · Africa Tech — Sovereignty across seven fronts2 textes ↗Digital entrepreneurshipThe price of entry · Fifteen dinars withdrawn for every dinar spent5 textes ↗Languages & heritageThe ship of Theseus and tradition · Africa speaks two thousand languages. Its digital world speaks five.3 textes ↗Society & workLeaving at four · The shrinking list5 textes ↗

Archives

Le corpus

Chercher par type, thème, année ou mot précis — sans perdre le fil des textes.

Type

Theme

Year

2 results

Méthode

Une discipline pour ne pas confondre vitesse et compréhension.

01
Partir du fait
02
Interroger ce qui semble évident
03
Chercher le mécanisme
04
Tester les explications
05
Tirer une conséquence concrète