by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 13, 2022 | Content
A verifiable story is worth more than a loud one, and payment systems attract more noise than evidence. Claims about what a pan-African rail will do for trade tend to run ahead of anything that can be documented, which is precisely why a source-led approach matters....
by The Fikiria Desk | May 22, 2021 | Content
In a story this large, the risk is not too little information but too much of the wrong kind. Speculation about what Ethiopia’s telecoms opening will eventually mean will run well ahead of what can actually be verified. On 22 May 2021, the disciplined task is...
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 8, 2021 | Content
In a market as thinly documented as South Sudan, the discipline of a story is to separate what is verified on the day from what is merely expected. A network launch invites forecasts, but the reportable record on 8 March 2021 is narrow and specific. Zain’s...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 27, 2021 | Content
A claim is only as strong as the document behind it, and much of what is said about Somalia’s economy rests on estimate rather than record. Mobile money has run the country’s payments for years with little formal reporting to anchor the numbers. On 27...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 1, 2021 | Content
In the noise around a continental milestone, the hardest discipline is to separate what is verifiably true today from what is merely hoped for later. Trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area has formally begun, giving businesses a live framework for...