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Three Years of Web Design

Trajectories — Portrait No. 5 Africa’s largest technology exit is usually reported as $682m. The figure adds a payment that was made to one that may never be, and excludes...
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The Man Who Bought Gatwick

Trajectories — Portrait No. 4 Infrastructure is a rent asset. Airports, ports and power grids earn their returns from the absence of a substitute, not from competitive advantage — which...
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The Financier Who Chose the Factory

Trajectories — Portrait No. 3 Central African economies pay better for trading than for making. Importing a container requires working capital and a licence; building the factory requires energy, a...
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The $6.4bn Bet That Came Undone

Trajectories — Portrait No. 2 Ursula Burns took over a company whose product was being erased by the internet, and spent $6.4bn — the largest acquisition in Xerox’s history —...
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Suing for a Dial Tone

Trajectories — Portrait No. 1 Strive Masiyiwa spent five years and most of his money in court, arguing that Zimbabwe’s telephone monopoly was an assault on free speech. He won,...
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No Longer “Almost”

For the best part of a decade, Ousmane Dembélé was football’s most tantalising unfinished sentence — all gift, few moments. Then came a June night in Boston, three goals, and...
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Alone at the Summit: The Night Mbappé Entered France’s Pantheon

Standfirst: It took a World Cup night, an opponent that refused to bend, and a strike from another planet. East Rutherford, June 16, 2026: with a decisive brace against Senegal...
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When Jeff Bezos Lands in Paris: How the Man of Space Is Propelling VivaTech Into a New Orbit

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Europe’s largest technology show has secured the most coveted signature on the planet. On Wednesday, June 17, 2026, Jeff Bezos — founder of Amazon, of...
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Oprah Winfrey to Take the Cannes Lions Stage: A Global Icon of Influence, Storytelling and Leadership

When Cannes Lions welcomes a speaker, it is never simply about celebrating a career. It is about creating a dialogue on influence, leadership, and the power to shape culture. In...
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The Arithmetic of Power

One runs Africa’s biggest bank. One governs a country at war. One holds a presidency, one a 130,000-strong empire, one the rules of world trade. None of them was supposed...
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Marion Obam Mahel: The Woman Who Moves Forward — and Takes a Whole Continent With Her

CEO, union president, executive member of the International Federation of Journalists — Marion Obam Mahel embodies a new generation of African women leaders who refuse glass ceilings and rewrite the...
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“Afro-Caribbean cinema doesn’t lack talent — it lacks channels”

Blaise Pascal Tanguy, founder of L’Afrique Fait Son Cinéma and the driving force behind LE CLUB, champions a vision rare in the cultural sector: turning Afro-Caribbean cinema into a structured...
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Idris Elba’s Ghana Gambit: Building Hollywood On African Soil

The British actor’s $multi-million studio project transforms Accra into a global film hub—an economic blueprint for central africans nations On March 25, 2025, Idris Elba did not merely visit Ghana....
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How Syndy Emade Turned Cameroonian Cinema Into Big Business

Five years after telling us she dreamed of Netflix deals, the Blue Rain Entertainment founder has built the CEMAC region’s first streaming empire—and proven that creative industries can outshine oil...
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