Africa Is Not Behind. It's Building on Better Rails. (opens in new tab)

Africa Is Not Behind. It's Building on Better Rails. Here is the sentence that reframes everything: Median age in Africa: 19. Median age in Europe: 45. This is not a poverty statistic. This is an infrastructure statistic. Every AI tool, every financial product, every institutional system built in the West was designed around a 45-year-old. A person with a credit history, a land title, an employment record, a bank account, and decades of institutional trust. The 19-year-old in Nairobi, Dar es ...