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• Russell Southwood

  Industry analyst for telecoms, internet and media in Africa. Author of Africa 2.0 - Inside a continent's communications revolution and the Africa Interconnection Report. My Substack provides analysis, insights and data.

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• Ghana: The collapse of competition and the 800 lb gorilla in the room, MTN

  Russell Southwood · 2026-07-27

• Regulating for Africa’s future digital economy – A draft agenda to speed things up

  Russell Southwood · 2026-06-25

• Closing the digital divide in the Sahel belt – an analysis of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

  Russell Southwood · 2026-06-04

• Trying to make sense of who will use Artificial Intelligence in Africa and how – Going beyond the hype

  Russell Southwood · 2026-05-19

• Africa’s Fintech – Triangular ‘tug-of-war’ over who gets the prizes

  Russell Southwood · 2026-04-30

• The Long View - What ICT4D did for Africa and why that deep past matters for today

  Russell Southwood · 2026-04-16

• Africa’s Start-Up Land – Current realities and what might change over 10 years

  Russell Southwood · 2026-03-24

• The mighty mouse that roared – Raspberry Pi, the little devices that can do a big job #12

  Russell Southwood · 2026-02-25

• Waking the dead - Slow road to extinction for Africa's former telco incumbents #11

  Russell Southwood · 2026-02-16

• Sub-Saharan Africa - why computers matter #10.2

  Russell Southwood · 2026-01-23

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