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The Infrastructure Gap Nobody Wants to Fund — and Why That's Changing

Today I took a full day off. No Slack. No email. Just family, jollof, and a very long nap. I'm telling you this so that someone reading it gives themselves permission to do the same.

Mthokozisi Acheampong

2026-05-10 00:29:38

What the Next Five Years of African Tech Actually Look Like

Reminder: not everyone gets to see the 3am iterations, the rejected proposals, the months where revenue flatlined. They just see the announcement. Respect the silence behind other people's success.

2026-05-12 17:29:38

Building Trust in Markets Where Trust Has Been Broken

The best career advice I ever got: 'Stop networking with people at your level. Obsess over being useful to the people ten steps ahead of you.'

2026-05-12 12:29:38

A Candid Look at What It Takes to Scale Past 10,000 Users in Africa

Quick framework I use before every major decision — write down the worst realistic outcome. If you can live with it, move forward. If you can't, redesign until you can.

2026-05-07 13:29:37

Why Founders on This Continent Are Playing a Different Game

Accountability thread: I said I'd launch in Q1. It's Q2. Here's exactly what went wrong, what I'm fixing, and the new date I'm committing to publicly — because public commitments are the only kind I keep.

The Build Africa Digest

2026-05-08 09:24:57

A Candid Look at What It Takes to Scale Past 10,000 Users in Africa

The photography coming out of East Africa right now is astonishing. A whole generation of visual artists documenting the continent on their own terms. Tag me in work I should be following.

Creative Commons Nairobi

2026-05-29 03:24:57

A Candid Look at What It Takes to Scale Past 10,000 Users in Africa

Something nobody tells you about scaling: your biggest bottleneck stops being capital at some point and starts being clarity. Clarity of vision, communication, and culture.

Yasmine Traoré

2026-05-28 21:24:57

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2026-05-26 21:47:32

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