The Bets Got Bigger
It has been the greatest honor of my life representing Malawian youth and [social] entrepreneurs in the inaugural cohort of the #BigBets fellowship, operationalized by the Rockefeller Foundation.
‘Saving’ Africa
Africa today produces less than 2 percent of global manufacturing output and just 1.4 percent of global manufacturing exports. Manufacturing value added on the continent reached about $351 billion in 2025, which sounds substantial until you remember the size of the continent, its population and its ambitions. Manufacturing contributes about 10.8 percent of African GDP compared with 16.5 percent globally. Those numbers bother me.
Markets Don’t Care
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.
All About the Numbers
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.
