The East African
Monday February 08 2021
Trends showed that the internet that was critical to the project, was likely to be shuttered and activists arrested. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Summary
Some years back, I was asked to give some pan-African risk analysis for a project funded by deep-pocketed international figures. They wanted to run two pilots in Africa; one in West Africa, the other in eastern Africa.
I was skeptical about the West African choice, because the project was supposed to be ready for in an election year. Politics tends to go south in Africa during elections, and the risk profile of their chosen country was too high.