There is a quiet assumption embedded in most coverage of African technology: that the continent is catching up, slowly and unevenly, to a race already well underway. Egypt’s unveiling of Karnak in February 2026 does not dismantle that assumption entirely, but it does complicate it in ways worth sitting with.
There is a quiet assumption embedded in most coverage of African technology: that the continent is catching up, slowly and unevenly, to a race already well underway. Egypt’s unveiling of Karnak in February 2026 does not dismantle that assumption entirely, but it does complicate it in ways worth sitting with.
The scoreboard said 1-0 to Senegal. Pape Gueye had just struck one of the most beautiful goals in AFCON history, Édouard Mendy had saved a penalty so weak it was almost an insult, and the Lions of Teranga had become African champions for the second time in four years. That
The Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is once again in the middle of a very familiar but evolving conflict, one where minerals, militias, and geopolitics intersect with renewed intensity. Recent data from Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) shows a sharp escalation: the highest number of monthly drone