Here is a proposition that sounds reckless until you run the arithmetic: Africa should build the largest hydropower complex on Earth, dig two canals that move a rounding error of the Congo’s & Nile’s flows, build the planned hydropower plants that respect each river’s water balance, and then stop building large generation. Not because large…
The ports were the map. The rails are the mechanism. A port without a rail line is a door without a corridor, and an SEZ without a rail connection is a warehouse with a customs form. The reason the African corridor story has moved from aspiration to finance is not that the ports suddenly appeared.…