Career POD: Wabo Majavu on Early AI, Strategic Foresight, and Digital Activism South African strategist Wabo Majavu traces her technical roots at CSIR, MTN, and Intelsat to reveal how they've informed her executive strategy work—balancing digital inclusion, AI innovation, and commercial success.
Fintech OP-ED: Stablecoins and Africa’s Fintech Future—Efficiency, exclusion, and the price of progress As stablecoins promise fast, cheap transfers, African businesses must weigh efficiency against surveillance risks and shifting gatekeepers in a new digital financial order.
Digital Transformation OP-ED: Can Fibre Optic Manufacturing Joint Ventures Like YOA Cable Drive Africa’s Next Industrial Wave? Pieter E. Viljoen, a physicist-turned-optic cable manufacturing boss, is betting that rethinking fibre from first principles could help restart Africa’s stalled industrial ambitions.
Ecosystem OP-ED: Funding Plus—Alesimo Mwanga on why strategic partnerships are the secret to scaling African innovation Ecosystem strategist Alesimo Mwanga explains how strategic partnerships unlock cross-border venture growth where funding alone falls short.
Artificial Intelligence OP-ED: Claude, Deepfakes, and the Death of ‘Real’—A wake-up call for the digital age As AI blurs the line between truth and fiction, our collective indifference to reality could prove more dangerous than the technologies reshaping our world.
Infrastructure POD: Carrier Neutrality—Rob Bergman on Unicorn Factory's vision for digital infrastructure investment Dutch investor Rob Bergman and his partners at Unicorn Factory are driving a carrier-neutral strategy to deploy capital and scale digital infrastructure across Africa.
Impact Investing POD: Impact Theatre Check—Balloon Ventures' contrarian sensibilities to SME financing in East Africa Joshua Bicknell, co-founder of Balloon Ventures, discusses how the financial institution is challenging conventional investor logic by backing "boring businesses" to create sustainable employment in East Africa.
