Notes
The journal.
August 2026
A billion-dollar bet on cloth
The IFC is committing close to a billion dollars to Africa's creative industries. The question is who ends up owning the margin.
Note August 2026July 2026
Standards, not stories
Lagos Leather Fair closed its ninth edition with a roadmap that reads like a supply-chain memo: comply, automate, export.
March 2026
Capability and capital
Capability is not scarce on this continent. The infrastructure that turns capability into ownership is.
Note March 2026February 2026
What a node is, and is not
A node is a relationship held in a city. A space is a property the house owns. The two are not interchangeable.
January 2026
Reading a brief
How the house reads an incoming brief before a single name is proposed.
Note January 2026