Reporting from Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cairo, Accra and across the continent.
Est. 2022
01Field Report · Lagos
When the sun disappears over Lagos, another city emerges. Behind closed storefronts and fading daylight, thousands of workers begin their shifts — repairing machines, preparing meals, moving goods and keeping Africa’s commercial capital in motion until morning.
02Industry · Nairobi
A new generation of engineers wants East Africa to manufacture the systems powering its electric buses, motorcycles and miniature grids.
03Culture · Accra
In Accra, a living collection of garments, photographs and oral histories is giving designers a richer vocabulary for the future.
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05Music Business · London / Lagos
Lawyers, data analysts and rights managers are building the less glamorous infrastructure of Africa’s most visible cultural export.
06Climate · Kigali
Rwanda’s capital is treating marshland as working urban infrastructure—part park, part flood defense and part public classroom.
Builders, thinkers and cultural forces changing how Africa works, creates and imagines what comes next.
S1Nairobi · 7 min read
A new generation of engineers wants East Africa to manufacture the systems powering its electric buses, motorcycles and miniature grids.
By Peter MuiruriS2Accra · 6 min read
In Accra, a living collection of garments, photographs and oral histories is giving designers a richer vocabulary for the future.
By Sena K. Danso
S3London / Lagos · 10 min read
Lawyers, data analysts and rights managers are building the less glamorous infrastructure of Africa’s most visible cultural export.
By Teni AdebayoClose readings of the networks, decisions and quiet infrastructure behind the continent's biggest shifts.
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