Economy
Africa’s Trillion-Dollar Bet on the Digital Checkout
On a recent afternoon in the Kenyan capital, a street vendor selling secondhand clothes…
South Africa Wants to Do More Than Dig. Its Youth Are Watching
On the crowded concourse of Johannesburg’s Park Station, a 24 year old mining graduate…
Africa’s Great Power Test: Can ‘Mission 300’ Bring Electricity to 300 Million People by 2030?
On a sweltering evening in rural northern Nigeria, the whirr of a plastic fan…
Africa’s Energy Dream Meets a Harsh New Math
On a blistering afternoon outside Dakar, the solar panels seem endless, a sea of…