Rail is back on Africa’s agenda after decades of decline. The new lines are part of a wider story – and bounded by a financing gap measured in tens of billions.
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Intellectual
Pension Logic: Why N$800 Million of Savings Belongs in Namibian Property
A pension fund’s deepest problem is time. Property, held for decades, is the asset that answers it.
Owning the Story: The Rights Beneath Wrong Generation’s Book-to-Screen Move
A film drawn from a real protest and a published book raises a quiet question of who owns the telling.
The dragnet argument: why the China-Africa story is bigger than its biggest project
Every headline picks one mega-project to judge China in Africa. The aggregate – 13,000 km of rail and road, 170 schools, 100 ports – tells a different and harder-to-dismiss story.
Green Development: From Side Project to the Centre of China-Africa Energy
Solar fields in Morocco, wind farms in South Africa, hydropower in Uganda – China’s clean-energy projects in Africa have moved from the margins to the mainstream of the relationship.
South-South Exchange: China-Africa Ties as Knowledge, Not Only Capital
The roads and ports dominate the headlines, but the more durable transfer between China and Africa may be training, research centres and technical know-how.
Joint Modernization: The Idea China Is Using to Reframe Its Africa Role
Beijing now describes its African partnership through six characteristics of modernization, positioning itself as a fellow traveller rather than a creditor.
One Vendor Deep: MTC, Huawei and Who Owns Namibia’s Digital Rails
Every layer of the digital economy MTC now resells runs on one foreign vendor. That is a design choice worth naming.
Holding the Margin: How IP and Origin Marks Let Namibia Keep AfCFTA Value
Adding value is only half the task. Protecting it – through geographical indications and marks – is how the margin stays home.