by The Fikiria Desk | Nov 8, 2019 | Property
A technology city is imagined in software and delivered in concrete, and the projects that stall usually do so not for want of a vision but for want of serviced land, permits and engineering capacity. Kigali Innovation City — the mixed-use technology and education...
by The Fikiria Desk | Sep 9, 2019 | Property
A reform written in the language of macroeconomics lands, in the end, on land. On 9 September 2019 Ethiopia launched a three-year Homegrown Economic Reform Agenda to stabilise the macroeconomy, widen private participation and lift productivity in agriculture,...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 7, 2019 | Property
A trade agreement is signed in a conference hall, but it is delivered on tarmac, at ports and along corridors. Africa’s difficulty has never been the absence of markets to reach; it is the cost and unreliability of the physical routes between them. On 7 July, in...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 25, 2019 | Property
A privacy law looks like paperwork until you ask where the data physically lives. When Uganda enacted the Data Protection and Privacy Act — rules for how personal data is collected, processed, stored and transferred — it wrote a statute with a footprint. Data is...