The Zimbabwean-born founder of Econet and Cassava Technologies has announced plans to build artificial intelligence computing capacity on African soil. The question is whether the continent can afford to run it. Strive Masiyiwa built a telecoms and fibre group across Africa after a long legal fight to obtain a licence in Zimbabwe. His current vehicle,...

Every Central African family abroad knows a version of the story: money sent for a plot, a house half built, a title that turns out to belong to someone else. Property is the diaspora’s favourite investment and its most litigated one. For most of the diaspora, the first investment at home is land. It is...