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Where does work come from?
A short thinking exercise
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Abraham Augustine
Everyone is floating. No one is escaping
Seed funding was supposed to unlock scale. It built a waiting room instead.
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Diving into the deep end
Private tech equity research in Africa is too hard to not do it.
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America wants a slice
...of the remittance business.
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Ticked the climate-tech box yet?
On the artistic interpretations of "climate-tech" in Africa.
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Opinionated research on money and myths in Africa's tech ecosystem
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African startups disrupt nothing
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Was Copia wrong?
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How to digitize a continent, or “offline” is still king
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Hail Africa’s latest unicorn. Brought to you by... Southeast Asia
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Tech events in Africa...
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Ticked the climate-tech box yet?
On the artistic interpretations of "climate-tech" in Africa.
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Before the dust settles
An Introduction into AI agents for Africa
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Was Copia wrong?
Jumia thinks not.
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Extremes
That Lagos manages to create, deploy and multiply any significant value at all is magic.
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Hail Africa’s latest unicorn. Brought to you by... Southeast Asia
May we see more(?)
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Scale is perspective
Maturing African startups are selecting their approaches
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Many big things start with a bang
Or has VC in Africa been a force for good?
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In Defence of Leapfrogging
The earth is never still.
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Tailwinds
And trade winds.
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Trade likes talking
And digitisation is like teaching a new language
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The circle of life, capital and everything
Tailwinds disappear... that is life
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On scapegoating the “Silicon Valley model”
The “Silicon Valley model” is not responsible for the death of African tech darlings
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