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African leaders are increasingly aspiring to “modernise” their cities. That is to make them “globally competitive” and “smart”. The hope is to strategically position cities in Africa to drive the continent’s much-needed socio-economic transformation.
But these aspirations tend to marginalise …
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Digitizing informal trade is the multi-billion-dollar challenge for the next wave of African tech unicorns. If they succeed it will be transformative for a continent where near 90% of employment is informal.
Flutterwave, a Nigerian payments company, is now worth
Over 13 million individuals are jobless according to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey of 2021. Unemployment means the inability to satisfy one’s preferences, chief among them generating capital to sustain oneself and accumulating it to improve material conditions. That is …
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