Yinka Adegoke

Nigeria’s President Tinubu is deploying younger technocrats to give him a better grip on a stuttering economy - by @alexisak for @SemaforAfrica semafor.com/article/05/20/…

“Control of digital infrastructure is not a question of ownership. It is a question of planning. You can let someone else build the road but you shouldn’t let them decide where it goes.” - @YinkaWrites

The debate about who controls Africa’s resources has expanded considerably in recent years, from critical minerals to domestic capital to the terms on which foreign investors operate. But one frontier remains underweighted in that conversation, despite being among the most consequential: digital public infrastructure. Read the full view from @YinkaWrites: semafor.com/article/05/18/…

Two of the most influential Republican congressional staffers on US-Africa policy are departing this month, just as the Senate confirms the official set to lead the State Department’s Africa bureau. @YinkaWrites semafor.com/article/05/18/…

View by me: The problem with Trump's aid-for-minerals strategy and comparing it with post-WWII's Marshall Plan - via @SemaforAfrica @semafor semafor.com/article/05/13/…

A 19-year old Thiel fellow from Connecticut has raised over $7M to build Africa’s latest ‘first super app’ sparking a furor in Nigeria's tech ecosystem. @eajene explains this is really about the power of narrative over groundbreaking strategy. semafor.com/article/05/11/…

South Africa’s Ramaphosa has turned to the courts to stall efforts to impeach him over a corruption claim semafor.com/article/05/12/… via @SemaforAfrica

Every business starts with a story. For @SwoopAppNG — which announced $7.3M in seed funding at the end of April — that story is building "Africa's first super app" in Lagos, Nigeria. But the company hasn't yet demonstrated a super-app wedge, earned market insights, or operational discipline in one of Africa's megacities. The question is whether the story survives contact with the street. "What was secret is revealed in the marketplace." — Igbo proverb Read my take for @Semafor here ➜ semafor.com/article/05/11/… Thanks to @YinkaWrites & team for the opportunity to share thoughts 🙏🏽

What a major opposition split will mean for Nigeria's fast-approaching election scramble, by @onu_kwue for @SemaforAfrica @semafor semafor.com/article/05/11/…

DR Congo’s Félix Tshisekedi has opened the door to a third term despite a constitutional two-term limit, with critics saying White House support is emboldening him to extend his time in office.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ With @YinkaWrites for @SemaforAfrica semafor.com/article/05/08/…

DR Congo president eyes third term after US sanctions on Kabila and Rwanda semafor.com/article/05/08/…

DRC is taking a stake in a $270M Zambia power link to meet its growing mineral processing energy demand, writes @nyanguila_ruben for @SemaforAfrica semafor.com/article/05/06/…

'African literature is not dead or dormant; it is diversifying, decentralizing, becoming more inclusive, and refusing to perform for old gatekeepers. If anything, the ‘death’ discourse says more about the anxieties and unmet expectations of its mourners than about the lived reality of writer' rpublc.com/story/2026/03/…

Some 5,000 people were set to show up for a conference on the intersection of technology and human rights. Then the host Zambia canceled after reported pressure from China over Taiwan's participation. semafor.com/article/05/01/… via @SemaforAfrica

@edmundlee @LachCartwright Ha! Congrats!

I have a new gig (via @LachCartwright breakermedia.com)

One of the coolest things during #SemaforWorldEconomy was the library in the green room with books from our verticals. The Africa section had @hofrench as only author with three of his recent books on display. Also @DoubleEph/@FolaFagbule and @stuartareid among others.

Why the Sahel crisis matters to Europe, by @UlfLaessing for @SemaforAfrica semafor.com/article/04/30/…

@AnupKaphle @restofworld A great run! Good luck back home!

I joined @restofworld believing the most important tech story of our time was the one being told outside the usual places. I leave today still believing in that idea. Next week I start as group editorial director at Kantipur. The work continues — just from a different timezone.

Scoop: Trump will today sign the executive order on retirement plans for workers without employer-provided ones that he teased during SOTU: semafor.com/article/04/30/… It’ll be integrated with 2022’s Saver’s Match, as we scooped officials were considering: semafor.com/article/02/24/…