The Infrastructure Gap That Explains Half of Africa's Startup Failure Rate
Post-mortems blame the market, the team, or the funding environment. Often the real cause is more boring: the electricity, the bandwidth, and what both cost.
Infrastructure
Internet access, power, data centres, and mobile networks — the physical foundation everything else runs on. The stories that do not get written often enough.
The Cables Have Landed. Why Is Bandwidth Still Expensive?
International capacity into Africa has multiplied. Retail prices have not fallen nearly as far, and the reason sits between the landing station and the customer.
Power Is a Software Problem Too
Unreliable electricity does not only raise costs. It shapes what applications can be built, and most engineering advice written elsewhere quietly assumes it away.
Data Centres and the Question of Where Your Data Actually Sits
Local cloud capacity is growing. Whether to use it is a legal question as often as a technical one.