The Africans Time Analysis of Public-Private Partnerships in African Infrastructure
There is a particular kind of optimism you feel when you drive toward a new bridge before dawn. The road is still quiet. A few traders are setting up by the shoulder, taxis are beginning to swarm, and the concrete ahead looks like a promise made visible. Across Africa, that promise has often been tied to public-private partnerships, those carefully negotiated deals where governments and private firms try to split the burden of building what countries urgently need, roads, p