Posts by Martina J

Part One: The Case for Non-Alignment Africa's technology future is often framed as a choice between camps. One side emphasizes Western platforms, standards, and financing. The other highlights Chinese infrastructure,…

Kenya's China-built digital infrastructure reveals the 2026 strategy behind Africa's most sophisticated hybrid model. This article explains how digital infrastructure, debt restructuring, and democratic friction are reshaping East Africa's technological…

Artificial intelligence runs on computation.Computation runs on electricity.Electricity, at scale, now runs on batteries. At the center of this chain sits lithium — and increasingly, Zimbabwe. The country is definitely…

For decades, the scramble for Africa was defined by physical borders and mineral rights. Today, a new map is being drawn—not in ink, but in fiber-optic glass and silicon. While…

When a Harare commuter walks through Robert Mugabe International Airport, cameras track their every move. Their face is scanned, analyzed, and matched against a growing database, not just for Zimbabwe's…