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Series · 7 episodes45 min

Leaving at four

A chief financial officer told me he was going to pick up his daughter from school for the first time in six years, and that he owed it to a machine. I found the story beautiful. Then I looked at who in his department had disappeared so that this hour could exist. Seven episodes.

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Sauter une génération

L’Algérie pourrait sauter le Mobile Money de première génération. Pas le problème qu’il résolvait : faire circuler l’argent au-delà du premier commerçant.

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Series · 7 chapters45 minFull text in French

Une société vous retire ce qu’elle contrôle

La colère ne suffit pas. Il faut une main qui retire.

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Series7 chapters30 min29 September 2026
Sauter une génération
L’Algérie pourrait sauter le Mobile Money de première génération. Pas le problème qu’il résolvait : faire circuler l’argent au-delà du premier commerçant.
29 September 2026Society & workFull text in French
The chapters
01Le pays qui pourrait sauter une génération
02Le Mobile Money que l’Algérie n’a jamais vraiment connu
03Quinze dinars retirés pour un dinar dépensé
04Ce que change réellement un PSP
055G, cloud souverain : l’infrastructure était absente de la première histoire
06Quand le wallet commence à comprendre ce qu’on lui demande
07On peut sauter une technologie. Pas un réseau.
Series7 chapters45 min29 September 2026
Une société vous retire ce qu’elle contrôle
La colère ne suffit pas. Il faut une main qui retire.
29 September 2026Society & workFull text in French
The chapters
01Quelque chose me dérange dans l’explication américaine
02Aux États-Unis, la réputation a un prix
03La France ne retire pas toujours la même chose
04L’erreur commence quand on dit « en Afrique »
05D’Abidjan à Lagos : quand la communauté trouve son levier
06Nairobi, Johannesburg, Alger : la sanction change avec ce que le groupe protège
07Une société vous retire ce qu’elle contrôle
Series7 episodes60 min14 September 2026
Fifteen dinars withdrawn for one spent
In Algeria, in 2025, people pulled fifteen times more cash out of machines than they spent electronically in shops. That is where the argument starts. It really begins somewhere much smaller, in a car pulled over one evening in Algiers. Seven episodes.
14 September 2026Society & workFull text in French
The episodes
01Le chauffeur qui préfère 1 500 dinars
02L’argent n’est pas seulement de l’argent
03Un pays peut être numérisé sans être dématérialisé
04La profondeur d’un circuit
05Le chauffeur n’achète pas seulement de l’argent
06Ce que les plateformes voient et que les banques ne voient pas
07Le cash n’est pas l’ennemi du numérique
Series7 episodes45 min15 August 2026
Leaving at four
A chief financial officer told me he was going to pick up his daughter from school for the first time in six years, and that he owed it to a machine. I found the story beautiful. Then I looked at who in his department had disappeared so that this hour could exist. Seven episodes.
15 August 2026Society & work
The episodes
01Leaving at four
02What the machine actually took from him
03The CFO could delegate, the cashier cannot
04The hour given back does not go where you think
05You do not become better by doing less
06What must be decided, and by whom
07What I would do with a company and three years
Essay7 min14 September 2026
Education in Africa: learning differently to prepare for the future
On The African Pulse, on Ifrikya FM, Imen Nouad and Moïse Selph spent half an hour on education in Africa and the future of learning. Can digital education democratise knowledge while the digital divide runs so deep? What is a degree worth when it does not match what employers actually need? And what should the continent’s young people learn so that they build, rather than wait?
14 September 2026Society & workFull text in French
Series7 chapters38 min14 September 2026
The price of entry
Starting a company has always meant buying skills you lack, which means raising capital before you know whether the idea holds up. Seven chapters on how artificial intelligence changes that equation — and why a founder with no capital can welcome it without being naive about what it threatens.
14 September 2026Digital entrepreneurshipFull text in French
The chapters
01L’entrepreneur qui n’avait pas les moyens
02La compétence a toujours eu un prix
03Le jour où une équipe tient dans un ordinateur
04L’entrepreneur peut acheter du temps
05Et si l’IA ne détruisait pas seulement des emplois ?
06Quand l’IA devient un avantage pour ceux qui partent de loin
07Ce que nous devrions réellement craindre
Essay32 min14 September 2026
Fifty licences for a single market
A Nigerian payments company holds more than fifty licences to sell one service across some thirty countries. The press calls it a feat. It is also a bill — what it costs to reach a continent of 1.4 billion people that, for an entrepreneur, is not a single market.
14 September 2026Digital entrepreneurshipFull text in French
Essay3 min5 August 2026
The number is the least interesting part
Forty minutes on air on Africa Pulse, taking apart INTERPOL’s latest continental assessment: AI is behind 55% of Africa’s reported cybercrime, and losses have doubled in two years. Those figures travel well. What they don’t capture is tempo.
5 August 2026Cybersecurity
Essay2 min5 August 2026
They did not hack his account. They invented the person.
An actor shows up to casting with everything: the photo, the references, the agency that represents him, even past credits that check out online. The casting director ticks the boxes, signs the contract. The actor never existed. That is exactly what some scammers do today to open an account, secure a loan, land a job.
5 August 2026Cybersecurity
Series7 episodes68 min
Why low-competition ecosystems discourage innovation
Entrepreneurial torpor is usually explained by fear, mistrust, culture. But a variable that accounts for everything predicts nothing. Fear is not a character trait: it is a price.
Digital entrepreneurship
The episodes
01Fear is not a character trait. It is a price.
02Wait or buy: the silent arithmetic of dominant companies
03Why Silicon Valley buys: acquisition as admission of fear
04Fear does not kill projects. It kills the very desire to start a business.
05'An idea is worth nothing, only execution counts': the most serious objection
Essay4 min
The ship of Theseus and tradition
Someone once told me that wax print is not African. That is literally true — and yet nobody can seriously argue that a pagne is not African today.
Languages & heritage
Series7 episodes49 min
The invisible cost of fragmentation
Four African countries captured 72 % of the $4.1 billion raised by the continent’s startups in 2025. The explanation that comes to mind first rests on a currency. It does not survive the facts.
Digital entrepreneurship
The episodes
01Four countries, four currencies, one result
02A stable currency keeps its promises. Which ones?
03Where is the money that should fund our companies?
04A common currency does not make a common market
05Fragmentation is the real cost, and it is quantifiable
06PAPSS: what it does, and what it does not
07Being born pan-African
Essay10 min4 August 2026
Africa speaks two thousand languages. Its digital world speaks five.
Africa’s digital divide has long been measured in coverage rates and gigabyte prices. The next one will be measured in languages.
4 August 2026Languages & heritage
Series7 episodes52 min
The shrinking list
I published a piece that contradicted itself: it argued for assessing what machines cannot do, and reported the objection that dismantles it. Seven parts to settle that debt.
Society & work
The episodes
01The shrinking list
02We still teach mental arithmetic
03What cannot be delegated
04School does not measure, it sorts
05The cost of the shortcut
06Where the line falls, and who draws it
07What I would do with a curriculum and three years
Essay11 min4 August 2026
What is said in the booth
In a bilingual negotiation, the interpreter is the only person in the room who understands everything. They are also the only one whose identity nobody checks.
4 August 2026Cybersecurity
Essay9 min4 August 2026
The national data centre is not enough
Every sovereign data centre announcement is hailed as a victory. Digital sovereignty is not measured in square metres of clean room.
4 August 2026Digital sovereignty
Series7 episodes14 min31 August 2026
Umuzi — Language Week
Seven days, seven essays on African languages as living heritage. Umuzi follows five axes — vitality, reach, influence and crossroads, written heritage, modern presence — and rejects both the folklorising gaze and the single verdict.
31 August 2026Languages & heritage
The episodes
01Why Umuzi rejects the single question
02A language never dies all at once
03What a word tells when it leaves its language
04Ubuntu, or how a word becomes a crossroads
05Paperless memory has its archives too
06A language that no longer produces anything new
07Five axes, no hierarchy
Essay60 min3 September 2026
The time it takes, and the time we don't have
A viral video about the average age of millionaires claims you're not behind. I fact-checked its five claims. Two hold up, two are exaggerated, one has no source. But the real question runs deeper: does time always work in your favour? Seven episodes.
3 September 2026Society & work
Essay43 min3 September 2026
The difference between embellishing and fleeing
Romanticizing your life — is it self-deception? A video cites Nietzsche to argue it's not. I checked his most famous quote — it doesn't even come from a published book. Seven episodes on amor fati, becoming the poet of your own existence, and the fine line between meaning-making and avoidance.
3 September 2026Society & work
Essay40 min3 September 2026
The destiny you carry alone, and the one you carry together
My previous Nietzsche series treated meaning-making as an individual affair. A reader asked: what if that assumption itself isn't universal? Seven episodes confronting amor fati with Bantu thought, through Tempels, Kagame, Fu-Kiau, and Sony Labou Tansi.
3 September 2026Society & work
Series7 episodes15 min7 September 2026
Africa Tech — Sovereignty across seven fronts
Seven days, seven essays on African technological sovereignty: submarine cables, satellite connectivity, digital currency, platform work and regulation. No front resolves on its own.
7 September 2026Digital sovereignty
The episodes
01What technological sovereignty really means
02Why sovereignty starts in a cable
03Starlink and the question you cannot dodge
04The stablecoin that solves a problem
05Who pays for flexibility
06Regulation is the real battlefield
07Five fronts, one question

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Nothing academic here — just what I actually do, text after text.

01
Start from a precise fact, not a thesis — a CFO on the phone, a queue outside a courthouse, a word that changed meaning.
02
Spot what gets accepted without checking — the explanation that suits everyone, the figure that circulates without a source.
03
Look for the mechanism producing the phenomenon, not just describe it — who decides, who pays, who disappears.
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Test the easy explanations, including my own, before publishing them.
05
Draw a concrete consequence for contemporary African systems from it — not a general conclusion.

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