Precarious Urban Lives: The Struggle for Title in Africa’s Urban Future

By Wellington Muzengeza We inhabit cities that are not yet cities, settlements that masquerade as communities, homes that exist without recognition. Hopley, Eastview, Solomia, Gimboki, Mufakose and many more and these are not simply coordinates on a map, but they are theatres of insecurity and laboratories of exclusion, places where millions of urban Africans live…

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The Resurrection Machine: How Alphabet’s Q1 2026 Numbers Reveal the Full Stack Empire

Jabulani Simplisio Chibaya, MBA There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a room when someone walks back in after everyone assumed they were finished. That was the tech industry in late 2022, early 2023, the silence was Alphabet’s. ChatGPT had detonated, Microsoft was riding co-pilot euphoria, and the narrative machine had already…

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