Africa's Deep-tech Investment Story Doesn't Hold Up to Scrutiny
The narratives being constructed around African deep-tech investment reveal a persistent gap between how that story is being told and what the ground reality actually looks like.
The narratives being constructed around African deep-tech investment reveal a persistent gap between how that story is being told and what the ground reality actually looks like.
A structural analysis of how heat, electricity deprivation, noise, crowding, and poor nutrition create an interlocking cognitive tax on Nigeria's population — and why that loop is so hard to break.
Nigeria's system isn't broken. It's doing exactly what it's been allowed to do. The real problem is that your expectations don't match what the system is actually built to produce.
The tech sector predicts AI will kill SaaS, but they're confusing the commoditisation of code with the commoditisation of everything code sits on top of. Those are very different things.