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Beyond connectivity: Financing Africa’s digital infrastructure platforms

By Barbara Asafu-Adjaye, Head of TMT and Industrials, Absa Bank Ghana (CIB), and Kabo Nkoana, Senior Coverage Banker, Pan-African TMT and Industrials, Absa Bank South Africa An 86-year-old woman misplaces her phone and spends a week offline. She loses access to calls...

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Beposoman “Toba”: A classic case of how African indigenous culture heals and elevates special children

By Emmanuel Adu-Mensah .Beposo, Ashanti Region - If you stand amidst the vibrant, solemn grandeur of a Beposo funeral or the rhythmic thrum of a royal durbar, you will witness a sight that shatters modern, Western-centric assumptions about disability. Moving gracefully alongside the...

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The promise and limits of African data sovereignty

By Samuel W. Ugwumba and Jake Okechukwu Effoduh In June 2025, while testifying under oath before a French Senate inquiry, Microsoft France’s director of public and legal affairs admitted that the company “cannot guarantee” the data sovereignty of French customers in the...

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The Bold New Normal Conference: Empowering Africa’s Diaspora in the UK

Lucy Quist is set to host The Bold New Normal Conference in the United Kingdom on Saturday, June 13, 2026, under the theme The Power of The Diaspora: New Mindsets, New Communities, New Shared Prosperity. Sponsored by Margins ID Group and PayAngel,...

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