Why The Africans Time Looks at the Wider Context Behind Every Deal
There is a certain kind of business story that looks clean from a distance. A company enters a market. A government signs a memorandum. A lender backs a power project. A logistics firm buys warehouse space near a port. The headline writes itself, the share price twitches, the press office smiles, and the public is handed a neat little package with a ribbon on top. Then the dust rises. The road to that port is half-finished. The local currency has slipped 18 percent in