Who Pays, Who Profits: The Unit Economics Behind Africa’s Coding Bootcamp Boom
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ALX, Moringa, and Decagon have built Africa’s bootcamp sector. We break down who pays, who profits, and whether the model is sustainable.
Africa’s Bootcamp Economy: Can Alternative Training Close the Skills Gap?
Africa’s coding bootcamp sector is growing — but whether it can close the digital skills gap at scale is an open question.
Africa’s Research-to-Revenue Gap: Why University IP Rarely Becomes a Product
African universities produce more research than ever — but the pipeline from lab to market is almost entirely broken.
The CESA Decade in Review: Africa Enrolled More Children and Lost More Ground
A ten-year audit of the Continental Education Strategy for Africa shows enrolment gains masking a quality collapse that went unmeasured.
The Pan-African Streaming Wars: MultiChoice vs Netflix vs Showmax — Who Wins Africa?
The pan-African streaming market is consolidating. MultiChoice, Netflix, and Showmax are fighting for subscriber dominance — and the battle economics matter.
Africa’s Animation Economy: IP Ownership Is the Only Business That Scales
Kugali and Triggerfish have proven African animation can travel globally. The business model that makes it work is IP ownership — not production services.
Nollywood’s Streaming Economy: What Netflix, Prime, and Showmax Are Actually Paying
The streaming wars have reached Nollywood — but what do the deals actually pay, and who captures the value?
Africa’s AI Compute Gap: Why African Developers Pay 3x More to Build with AI
AWS has no GPU instances in Africa. GCP offers T4 inference-only. Azure has A10 in South Africa only. For Africa’s AI developers, an effective cost premium of 2.5 to 3 times makes AI development structurally more expensive than anywhere else in the world.
DRC’s €8B Digital Plan: Towers, Cables — and a €6.5 Billion Funding Gap
The DRC targets 30,000 towers and a national fibre backbone — but 81% of the funding remains unconfirmed.
Africa’s LLM Localisation Race: Who Will Own the African Language Stack?
The race to build large language models for African languages is intensifying — and the structural stakes go beyond AI benchmarks.
