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.
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.
In recent development data and reports, Africa’s demographic future has been described as its greatest economic opportunity.