View: The missing link in Africa’s infrastructure boom

View: The missing link in Africa’s infrastructure boom

Across Africa, governments have spent decades announcing ports without thinking about connecting railways, highways without paved feeder roads, and pipelines without ancillary terminals. Each project may make sense on its own, yet too many struggle because the surrounding infrastructure is so patchy.Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote’s decision to build a $17 billion refinery at Kenya’s Lamu port has brought that problem into sharp focus. The pr…