Ndubuisi Ekekwe had since resigned from Kobo360 board.

Africa’s pioneer leading digital logistics innovator, Kobo360, wins Africa CEO Forum “Disrupter of the Year” Award. To all our team members especially KoboSquad Commandants, Obi Ozor and Ife Oyedele II, I extend my BIG congratulations. The mission of fixing Africa’s logistics frictions via Kobo360’s G-LOS (global logistics operating system) is a huge one for our continent. Kobo360 came on top of Jumia, Africa’s Talking and others to win the award.

On behalf of Kobo360 Board, I extend congratulations to all KoboSquads.

Kobo360 is a tech-enabled digital logistics platform that aggregates end-to-end haulage operations to help cargo owners, truck owners and drivers, and cargo recipients to achieve an efficient supply chain framework. Through an all-in-one robust logistics ecosystem, Kobo uses big data and technology to reduce logistics frictions, empowering rural farmers to earn more by reducing farm wastages and helping manufacturers of all sizes to find new markets. Kobo enables unprecedented efficiency and cost reduction in the supply chain, providing 360-visibility while delivering products of all sizes safely, on time and in full. The Kobo mission is to build the Global Logistics Operating System that will power trade and commerce across Africa and Emerging Markets

The AFRICA CEO FORUM is the largest international gathering of African private sector decision-makers and financiers. At its previous edition in Abidjan in March 2018, it brought together 1,500 business leaders, public decision-makers and investors from Africa and around the world for two days of discussions around the need to transform African champions in the face of international competition. The Forum is organized by Jeune Afrique Media Group, publisher of Jeune Afrique and The Africa Report, and by Rainbow Unlimited, a Swiss company specializing in the organization of economic promotion events.

In this Tekedia Daily, I explain why Africa must redesign the China’s industrialization policy which many of the countries are adopting. As I note, China’s policy is now outdated because of many elemental changes in technology and globalization. So, what worked for China 30 years ago cannot work for Africa today despite our perceived thinking that we have comparative advantages that will shift the Miracle of China to Africa. A big dislocation has arrived in the world of commerce; I explain. China understands that, and has since updated and upgraded what was working until it began to lose steam.

There is a new world where AIs are signing contracts to make music for record labels. Yes, music will not be personalized. You can listen to Davido or Beyonce but we can have many flavors of Davidos and Beyonces, all AI-personalized to just be Davido or Beyonce singing for you!

Warner Music has become the first major label to sign a record deal with an algorithm. The German mood music app Endel has been signed to create 20 albums this year alone with five already released. The app creates personalised soundscapes for users depending on their requirements, whether it be to relax or to focus. The official site refers to it as “a cross-platform audio ecosystem”.

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1. Interesting and beautiful. Yet there lots we can learn and apply from China. Nevertheless the mistake would be trying to copy and paste what worked in a system into another totally different system whether from China or anywhere else. (Even in personal computers, copy and paste doesn’t always work if the format or tech is fundamentally different.) Historically and unfortunately many Africans think they can always copy and paste progress from somewhere else without factoring in fundamental differences. Perhaps we should learn as much as possible from China and the rest of the world but factor in the technological, demographic, economic, and cultural variations and more while we try to leap frog developments.

2. As always, what brought you success in the past may not be able to guarantee your relevance going forward. Many changes have happened in the last few decades, so citing how China did it and using the same logic in the era of knowledge economy says a lot about how detached some policymakers are from reality. But the biggest challenge is in the education sector, how relevant most of the contents being taught to young people in the universities are could be anyone’s guess. If we cannot win via industrialisation, at least let’s put up a fight via knowledge acquisition and application.