Detroit is a useful contradiction because it was not a peripheral city trying to become relevant. It was relevant—technologically, industrially, and culturally—at a scale that reshaped the global imagination of production.
I was casually scrolling on Twitter [now X], and I came across a tweet, expressing shock at the fact that there are no Apple Stores on the African continent.
In her TEDxMSU talk, Nthanda Manduwi argues that in an age of AI and data, human ego—not intelligence—is the true bottleneck.
Africa continues to be framed as the “final frontier”: a vast, youthful market whose growth is preordained by demography and digitization. And yet – the facts are incomplete.