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.
Africa continues to be framed as the โfinal frontierโ: a vast, youthful market whose growth is preordained by demography and digitization. And yet – the facts are incomplete.
For the past few months, Iโve been thinking about economics a lot โ not just in the theoretical sense, but in the way it shapes how people perceive and participate in the world around them. I’ve been reading ‘The Econocracy’, but between you and I, I am struggling to make progress in the midst of my MBA, and running my businesses.
In 2025, Malawi finds itself once again at a fiscal crossroads, with a K8.05 trillion national budget unveiled โ promising economic stabilization, infrastructure development, and social protection. Yet, beneath the surface of those ambitions lies a hard truth we have avoided for decades: Malawi never had an economy to begin with.