by The Fikiria Desk | Aug 6, 2026 | Economics
A landlocked country in the centre of southern Africa and a sultanate on the edge of the Arabian Sea share little geography and less history. What they increasingly share is a problem of the same shape: each is trying to convert a finite resource endowment into a more...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 29, 2026 | Economics
Economics – Global & Regional · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The headline green projects are measured in megawatts and billions. The early-warning component is measured in storms anticipated and droughts prepared for –...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 24, 2026 | Economics
Economics – Global & Regional · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 It is easy to photograph a finished bridge and hard to photograph a corridor – the border post that clears a truck in two hours instead of two days, the...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 22, 2026 | Economics
Economics – Global & Regional · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Regional integration stories usually star a single flag. The Kano-Maradi railway refuses the simplicity. Pitched as a corridor that links three northern Nigerian...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 16, 2026 | Economics
Economics – Global & Regional · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Africa drew its own connectivity blueprint – the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa, or PIDA – long before the Belt and Road reached the...