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Code and Capital
A new blueprint for artificial intelligence, technology investment, and wealth creation in the Global South.
A new blueprint for artificial intelligence, technology investment, and wealth creation in the Global South.
The next major economic story will not come from where you expect. This book shows you where it is already being written.
The next Silicon Valley may not rise on the American coastline — but in Lagos, Nairobi, or Bangalore. See how AI is turning the world's "periphery" into its new growth engine.
From M-Pesa's first text message to AI credit scoring in Nigeria, drone-delivered blood in Rwanda, and algorithm-run farms in Kenya — reportage from more than a decade of living and investing on the ground.
Why solving real problems beats chasing valuations: a practical framework for investors, founders, and policymakers who want returns and impact in emerging markets.
For thirty years, innovation was written on the maps of the developed world — Silicon Valley, London, Shenzhen. But a new narrative is emerging from the Global South: AI, mobile internet, and digital payments are converging in Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, giving rise to entirely new economic life forms.
Code and Capital takes you inside this shift — the African AI ecosystem growing out of mobile money, the Asian playbooks that can (and cannot) be replicated, the rise of data sovereignty, and a new generation of "smart capital" that profits by solving real problems.
This is not a book that predicts the future. It is a record of the future being written.
For investors, founders, policymakers — and anyone who wants to understand where the global economy goes next.
The center of global growth is shifting south — AI is turning peripheral regions into innovation hubs.
From a single M-Pesa text message to an AI ecosystem in fintech, farming, education, and health.
What Africa can learn from China, India, and Southeast Asia — and what it must build its own way.
Algorithms become capital, data becomes an asset — and wealth shifts from possession to cognition.
AI redefines sovereignty: data, algorithms, and computing power as the new borders of nations.
Smart capital's southern strategy — predictive, collaborative, impact-driven investing.
AI-driven inclusive growth, and the social contract of the intelligent age.
When code meets capital — and how the meaning of wealth itself is being reimagined.
The book argues AI should serve real life. Doni is that argument, running inside the chat app you already use every day.
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No new app. No dashboard. No manual. Doni is a one-stop AI assistant with a friendly dog persona, living right inside WhatsApp. Message it like you would message a friend. It remembers, reminds, draws, coaches, and keeps your numbers straight. Built by Susan, used daily in Lagos.
Free to use. Just say hi.
Tell Doni once, in plain words. At the right moment your phone rings. Not another silent notification you scroll past.
Snap a receipt or type "lunch 3,500". Doni keeps the ledger and sends a clean weekly report.
Exchange rates and the Nigerian headlines that matter, before your day starts.
Describe it in one sentence. Doni returns share-ready images and short videos, designed to be forwarded.
Practice by text or voice note. The coach listens, corrects, and talks back.
A personal web workspace that grows out of your chats. Plans, spending, and notes, always up to date.
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